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Three years ago, I got started with blogging; it was a daily routine to
always read top blogs and tried to follow in their footsteps – copy
what they’re doing and tried to implement it into my blog
– everyone has
some bloggers to follow.
Right?
While this strategy is always good to build better success, there are
down side to it as well and which are very dangerous if you’re not
careful with where, how and when you copy and implement other people’s ideas, actions, case studies, experiences, technics, strategies and tactics into your own life.
Among the many benefits of reading good books, blogs, magazines, dailies, people’s testimonies etc, is to equip yourself with good solid information, experiences and case studies to incorporate into your own life when occasions, situations, events and or circumstances demand for such principles or ideas.
Among the many benefits of reading good books, blogs, magazines, dailies, people’s testimonies etc, is to equip yourself with good solid information, experiences and case studies to incorporate into your own life when occasions, situations, events and or circumstances demand for such principles or ideas.
There is nothing wrong in using other people’s success stories as an ideal work flow for your own path.
But in reality, these can be a disastrous decision taken or steps to follow, especially in blogging your way to success.
Most aspiring bloggers quickly
jump on board after reading the success story of how that authority
blogger sold half a million dollar with a single products, and thinking
he can also replicate this success story on his own blog by selling a
similar product too.
What you’re reading on this authority blogger’s blog is only the surface; the entire fundamental principles, strategies and tactics that leads to such outstanding sales result where build over many years ago.
Often, you’ll read on many top bloggers blog post – bloggers like Pat
Flynn, Darren, Yaro, and Ramsay – their monthly earnings reports. And
how they went from building a blog from scratch to selling it for some
crazy amount of $$$.
What baffles me most about these things is, how a beginner blogger
became desperate to replicate these success stories on his blog just
after reading.
And quickly went on flippa to list his blog for sale hoping some
buyers will jump out from the moon and make him an offer in the range of
what his “mentor” have sold with his own blog.
Take a break and think twice; if it’s as easy as you had thought,
then every known blogger that was before you on the internet would have
been a millionaire long before you know the internet.
You can copy and still be different.
First, let’s get this straight; there is no new idea in the world but
at the same time, there is no exact duplicate of ideas or works. So in
whatever dimension or views you look at it, every ideas or actions are
new.
If you still don’t get it, let me break it down a bit….I really don’t
think there is ever a new way or strategy to make money online that has
never been told before I walk into the blogosphere.
Everything that needs to be said about making money online has always
been the same; since the beginning of the world people have involved in
buying and selling. And that’s just the only true and tested way to
make money either offline or online.
So in whatever ways I had discovered, or claim is new about making
money online, everything will still go down to “buy and sell”. Either
you’re “selling” your services/products or “buying” someone else
services/products.
So, we’re all saying same thing only in a different ways and styles – and that makes it a new idea.
But here is the problem; trying to copy someone blatantly is where you could go wrong and expose yourself to failure.
Why?
What you see in the person you’re copying is someone with remarkable
success and achievements; someone who makes thousands of $$$ from Google
AdSense, someone who sold millions of dollar from just an eBook.
And you think you can replicate these successes too by following all
his tactics and strategies – using same email marketing, sending out
same email messages and just copying all other tactics.
No, you’ll be disappointed.
There are things to consider before trying to copy someone else, think about it:
- do you have similar experience in the subject.
- what about the energy level and commitment?
- Consider the resources that must be spend to give the desired results.
- What about authority status and social media influence?
- Timing is very important and your current situation.
All these qualities does not come to anyone who have not worked hard to achieve them, and they take years to achieve.
If you’ve not lay the foundation for all these qualities and achieve
them, no matter how or exact way you blatantly copy someone, the results
will forever not be the same.
And one more thing, it will be a very bad move to copy someone just because you like him or love some characteristics about him.
For instance, when I started blogging, I love so much everything
about Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Yaro Starak. But I get lucky enough
to quickly realize why I shouldn’t copy these people.
Take a look at it;
These bloggers don’t respond to comment left on their blog post like
we averaged bloggers do. And you don’t see them sharing their latest
post on social media like we do. They don’t guest post anymore. They’ve
worked so hard in the past to come this far…..so now they can do
whatever – like copy blogger just did- Closing comments on their blog.
Yet they get the most traffic, money and just about anything you could think of that makes a blog being called successful.
If an average blogger tried to copy or follow this route, I guess
that would be an end to his blogging career. This is what Kumar called
“voluntary suicide mission”.
But I still Copy Too and this is how I do it……..
As things get more clearly and blogging became a lifestyle for me; I
started finding my voice and knowing exactly what I want from my
blogging career.
But first, I had to evaluate my lifestyle, my passion and my family needs and wants. So I don’t compromise one for the other.
I knew I don’t want blogging to be all my life and it doesn’t have to
be for you too, if you don’t want it to be. So I think about how I can
make this work for me and still get the best out of my blogging career.
I feel a blogger should blog because he wanted to, not because he must blog to keep up with deadlines.
Blogging every day is not what I want; I don’t agree with the idea
that I have to post every day to keep maintaining the traffic, income
and just about everything about my blog.
So, I search for “successful” bloggers who had believed in these same
principles like me and these bloggers does not necessarily be someone
whom I had loved.
After my findings, I discovered these bloggers don’t make up their
blog post with trending topics or some sort of breaking news in the
industry…their updates are timeless.
They write more of evergreen post and optimize it for organic
traffic, so they could benefits from a one time work long even after
they feel like not writing anymore.
And if you take a closer look at my blog post updates, you’ll see all
these attributes in it clearly. That’s why I have made bloggers like
Derek Halpern and Yaro Starak people I watch closely and copy some of
their styles and tactics – but not blatantly.
Derek is the guy who made me believe that if you know your onions;
you don’t need more contents to be a super blogger. What you need most
is more marketing for your existing quality content – don’t get this
wrong, you need to produce content regularly, but maybe not in the
frequency you’re thinking.
Yaro is the guy that imprints that same theory into my mind; and I
enjoy the way he manage to see his lifestyle above his blogging career.
If we must blog all day long; sit in front of the computer all time in
other to achieve success in blogging, then, just another 9-5day job.
But right before I copy or follow their teachings, I knew they had
put in lots of works in the past to come this stage. Before laying the
foundation that their blogging career now sits on, they’ve worked their
sucks off and done correctly many things in the past.
So now they can sit back and watch everything rolling.
Who is your favorites blogger and why do you copy him/her?
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