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Take me on a journey.
Tell me about the moment that you fell in love with your craft. Tell me about the struggles you’ve faced in your business. Tell me about the first sale you ever made.
Let me into your world—into your business. Add stories to your posts. Make them personal and unique.
Make your blog a different space from all other spaces. Be different.
Stop writing the same stuff as everyone else. Stop blogging just to blog. If you’ve seen the same topic covered over and over and you don’t have anything new to add, leave it alone for now.
If the rules don’t make sense, break them. It’s better to take a quick break from blogging than to publish junk that you’re not proud of.
Write with a purpose and a mission. If you do, your readers will connect with you. They’ll comment. They’ll follow you on Twitter and sign up for your newsletter. They’ll look forward to reading your posts. They’ll become loyal fans.
Make things worthwhile for your readers, and they’ll make blogging worthwhile for you.
xoxo
April
Thank you.
Magnificent! This goes to my archives.
I’m thinking this should be turned into an illustrated poster + distributed to the planet. Hmmmm… I’m getting excited!
This is very inspirational & thought provoking for me on so many levels. I feel like I’ve had many struggles with my creative business that just comes with the whole growing & learning process. I look at it as a challenge though & each new accomplishment is encouraging to me that I am getting there. Persistence will pay off! It takes time. True success {whatever that may be for each of us} doesn’t happen overnight. Every day is a chance to work hard so that we’re closer than we were the day before! Thanks again for your encouragement & guidance April! Hope you’re feeling better every day!
So good to be reaffirmed! I recently stepped away from my blog to regroup and really decide on the direction I want to be headed. After months of blogging aimlessly an regurgitating info I’d read elsewhere, I’m ready to get back up and find my authentic voice. Great, and timely, advice as always, April! 🙂
I think I fell in love with knitting and crochet at age 5 when my grandmothers taught me knitting and crochet. The processing of the fiber and spinning are just offshoots of how it becomes yarn to knit or crochet with. I struggled with realization that my handprocessed fiber off of my animals wouldn’t make a profit due to the fact I cannot get enough items in the store at a time. However I find that I do like designing knit and crochet items. I added this to my repetoire to augment what I am doing with the rescued fiber animals. April, thank you for making me think more about my blog and way of doing things.
How did I miss this post ? Such simple and succinct ideas or ‘guidlines’. . Im going to have to print this out and keep this in front of my computer as I craft my blog .
Thanks again , April 🙂