Did you prepare yourself when you first started as a blogger?

Many people in today’s internet world are blogging. It has been an massive increase in popularity over the last couple years and the phenomenon is still growing. That is great! The more blogs, the more information we get and the more discussion we ignite.

With 70.000 new blogs a day (Technocrati told us) many of those will stop in the first month. What are the reasons for that? Are those start-up bloggers prepared for the journey they are going to make? Of course, for the bloggers like myself, who were already in the webdesign field in some way, it is not a real problem. We know how the internet works.

But bloggers who choose pets or basketball as their niche might not know anything about blogging or webdesign in general. They don’t know how the internet works and they might not have the technical skills and the know-how to start a successful. All they want to do is blog.

I was thinking about that little problem lately and I have started to write a extensive how-to blog article, just for the startup bloggers out there. If the startups read that article, the chances to succeed should go up and we get more and more normal, prepared blogs out there. Blogs that stay active and stay bringing out that quality content we are all after. That is my goal.

Do you agree with the points I’ve made? Don’t you? Please leave a comment to tell me exactly what your arguments are and I will get into a discussion with you. In the meantime, I would like to know how you were started in this business. Prepared? Didn’t know anything about it? Please answer to the following question by choosing a answer in the poll in the sidebar:

Did you prepare yourself when you first started as a blogger?

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