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I just got back from a camping trip that I went to with all the men from my church.  It was a great weekend, and I really enjoyed taking the time to just relax and have some fun.

One of the highlights of the weekend was when we went hiking up a mountain. The idea of the hike was to get people thinking about how to overcome mountains or obstacles in your life, and  I had a few thoughts that could be related back to blogging.

1. Focus on the End Result

As we were walking up the mountain there were a lot of times when we couldn’t even see where the top of the mountain was, and since we could not see the end destination a few of the guys started getting discouraged. But the thing is we knew what the end result was, when we got to the top we would have an amazing 360 degree view, but those with a lack of vision started to talk about giving up.

With blogging set some goals, whether it is your rss feed count, or number of visitors per day, or even how much per month your are wanting to earn. If you focus on the end result it is so much easier to get through the hard times.
2. Don’t Journey Alone

So many people try to do things by themselves. But if they do, who is there to pick them up when the fall or convince them to keep going when there are the thoughts to give up?

As we were hiking up the mountain I took the time to chat with my pastor and we were just talking about anything from blogging to planting churches in Switzerland,  but the thing was that we got shocked when we hit the halfway point. Why? Because since we had been talking, our focus had been off of the obstacle of the mountain, and we had not even had one thought about how far up the mountain we were.

Keep people around you as you blog, build relationships with other bloggers and continually encourage them. Take the journey together, because not only will you enjoy the company on the way, but you will have someone to celebrate with when you reach your goals.

There will always be mountains or obstacles that will try and stop you from achieving your goals, will you let them win or will you see them as opportunities to make yourself stronger?

Harsh? Maybe…Let me explain.

Over the last couple of days I had been complaining to my mother saying that nothing was working for me, and that I just didn’t seem to be having any good ideas or getting any opportunites come my way. It seemed like everyone was making money but me, everyone was getting opportunities but me.
Ever felt like that? 

It got me thinking. All these people making the ‘big dollars’ online did they get lucky? Was it all chocolates and roses?

I went to a friends 18th birthday the other night. It was a good party and all, but I am the typical wall flower, I find big crowds daunting so I usually just chat to the people I know. So here I was talking to a friend of mine who is the typical ‘computer nerd’, now I’m not saying this as a payout he is so smart when it comes to any type of programming.

And I was complaining to him about what I was just saying. I went on saying, Myspace, Youtube, and all the other big websites - they are such simple ideas, why is it that we can never get good ideas. It always seems that everything that we think of has already been done.
You know what my friend said to me?

He said everyone has good ideas - but we usually see them as too hard, or that we don’t have the talent or the money,  the successful people that do make it big see the potential and make it work.

It reminds me of a quote I once read by Thomas Edison:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Once I took a hold of that it all started to fall into place!

When my perception changed I started seeing all the opportunities around me, and taking advantage of them.

The friend I was talking to was telling me about a project he was working on, that he wants me to help him with, I have had to offers to help promote ebooks from two different people (people I don’t even know), and things seem to be happening for me.
Change your perception or give up

Which brings me back to my blog title. If you are not seeing the opportunities around you maybe you need to make the perception switch that I made. It is an easy one - all you have to do is look at the offers that look like hard work, and see them as opportunities!

But if that seems to hard, then quit and go and work at McDonalds - I’m sure it is easier!

Ever wondered why some bloggers seem to have all the success, while you are sitting there typing away post after post - with no one reading? Here are a few tips I have tested that have not only worked for me, but that I have seen implemented in the majority of the top blogs.

1. Chose Your topic Carefully - The best of writers can talk about anything and make it sound good, but why make it hard on yourself? choose a topic that you are passionate about, and let your enthusiasm show shine. It will compliment your writing style and make for a more interesting read.

2. Study The Topic - Read up on the subject your are about to write about. Find out what others have written, and let it spark some creativity in your mind.

3. Create A Killer Headline - This is the most important step of them all. In fact it should probably be point number one, because if people are intrigued by your headline, why would they read the rest of your post? Don’t be afraid to flaunt your headline, people don’t like bland and mundane.

4. Deliver The Content - Your headline has promised it - now deliver! There is nothing worse then reading the title of a article, thinking it is going to revolutionize the way you view a topic, only to find it is a boring ‘copy and past’ job, that has taken 2 minutes to throw together. This hits on point 2, make sure you study the subject so you can deliver the content!

5. Use Bullet Points - formatting is so important! People like structure, and bullet points make articles much easier to read, and also helps the readers retain the information by giving them the key points of the article.

6. Choose Photos Wisely - No one likes a bland blog, but that doesn’t mean just splashing a random photo here and there just for the sake of it. Make sure the images compliment the article.

7. Make Your Opinion Known - People read blogs because they are written by people, people with opinions. If they wanted a scientific explanation to something they would consult a textbook, so let your readers know what you think personally about the topic you are writing about.

8. Use Lists - I know there are so many top 10 lists and I’m sure everyone is getting sick of them, but the thing is, they work. A busy reader can easily scan the main points to see if its is of interest before deciding whether to read on.

9. Provoke Your Readers - If you want to really grab your readers attention you have to challenge the way they think, question their beliefs and push their buttons. So start your blog with a statement or challenge that will make your reader need to read the next couple of lines to make sure you said what they thought they read.

10. Don’t Go On Too Long - Say what needs to be said and then get out of there. No one likes a rambler. Enough said.

Starting a blog from scratch is hard, you not only have to worry about what you will write, but you also have to worry about where you will get your readers from!

Here are a few things I have learn’t in the start up of my new blog on entrepreneurship.

1. Write Posts That People Will Want to Read

If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly. This isn’t just about the subject matter either, a blog is an online journal and should be written in a conversational way - and only one topic per post.

2. Ping Your Blog

By automatically pinging your blog, you are making sure that each new post is being made available to broadest range of readers. There are a heap of pinging services out there such as:

3. Commenting Other Blogs

Who is your target readers? Blog readers in your topic, right?  Then the best place to find them is on other blogs websites. By providing quality comments (not SPAM) on similar blogs to yours you are giving their viewers an opportunity to find out about your website, and you might even build some connections with the blog owner.

* Becoming one of the top commentors of influencial blogs is a great way to build traffic, expecially when they display a list of their top commentors (it on’t hurt your page rank either!).

4. Invite Guest Bloggers

A great way to add value to your blog is to find a popular blogger in your niche and invite them to do a small post on your website. This will flatter the guest blogger, and you are almost guaranteed a link back from their blog - helping promote your website.

5. Add Multimedia to Your Blog

Nothing is more boring that reading article after article of plain text. Spice up your blog with pictures, charts, podcasts, and videos. A lot of people are ‘visual people’ and need to see things to understand them, so pictures are very important. And with the growth in popularity of podcasts, why not see if you can implement one into your blog!

6.  Build Your Blog Into a Brand 

People associate themselves with brands!

When you are building your brand think about your readers and what they are looking for.

Don’t chop and change, if your blog is changing topic and direction ever month you are going to lose readers quicker than you can post!

And Be yourself, you will most likely be your brand - you can only pretend for so long, and if you get caught pretending the good luck!