Successful bloggers need to love blogging first

24.04.05 | filed in Professional-Blogging, e

In order to have a 'career' in blogging, you have to have certain skills to succeed. But what are those skills needed to be a successful blogger?

Darren asks the question in "Pro Blogger Qualities - Open Mike": "What would be your top 5 qualities for a Pro Blogger to have (in order of preference)?"

While I am not in favour to make such ranking answers, I do like to give many ideas and input into such a question. ;) So my take on it is this:

Have an affinity to the net - otherwise you won't keep up doing such a strange thing like a blog about a topic of let's say outdoor camping.
Have more than just a basic understanding of how the technology is working. To be a successfull problogger, you don't need to be geek. But you have to be a little geek, to know how to deal with servers, domains, logfiles etc. If you don't know how to handle stuff, the rest does not matter, because you won't have anything to run. Even if you outsource stuff, you need to know what you are outsourcing.
Be able to read fast and enjoy parsing information or have a perfect knowledge of one topic, so you don't need online information research
You must like / don't mind writing and you have to be more of a copywriter than an author. What do I mean by that: You need good content, well written so people like to come back, but you have to bring it out. And not write for days on one article. I choose copywriter instead of journalist because you also have to have a catchy style.

Be passionated about a topic.

You'll find that I put the passion at the end of my list, for a reason. You have to love blogging first - otherwise you will not start / stay with blogs. You can see this at the moment with podcasting: Some people absolutly dislike the format it is presented as. If they are nuts about one topic and they don't like podcasting, they will never use podcasting for distributing information on your topic. Which is a pitty, because it is so much easier to transport passion through voice than just through writing.

Back to blogs, and especially pro blogger: if you don't dig blogs, you will not make successful ones.

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