Writing about how to be successful online, this is a guest post by Felix Albutra who is now Blogging for Profit. Check out his blog for more great and useful information.
People who already have the skills on the field they wanted are most likely become successful. Or maybe you will become successful if you immediately figure out your potentials in your field.
What if the case is different from what you are expecting?
If you are a blogger that only have the skill to write, then you won’t become successful online. Huh! Why?
Here comes the situation. What if, you are about to launch your own product or implementing a case study, then your computer shuts down.
What if you are creating your new post and you want to add an image to your article, but don’t know how?
What if you want to tweak your blog design but you can’t? And you most likely don’t want to spend money for hiring other people doing what you want.
Those questions above are most newbie and novice bloggers are complaining. The bad thing is that, if they feel they can’t fulfill the tasks, they just gonna want to quit.
So before or upon starting a blog, you should learn at least 5 of these skills:
1. Technical Computer Skill
What I mean by this is that, the skills to troubleshoot or to fix at least minor errors in your computer. Because this thing is sometimes embarrassing, when you ask for help from a computer technician where there the only problem was a small touch of the wiring of your router. Of course, you need to pay the technician’s minimum charge.
To have this skill, you don’t need to go to school to study there and wait years until you get graduated. But all you have to do is to find useful information on the internet and try to digest them that would serve you as your stock knowledge.
Why don’t you visit this great site? – ComputerHope.com
2. HTML Coding
Of course you want to have a cool blog template. So, you downloaded and installed one of the free templates available online. But you were surprised when you don’t meet the expected output. What should you do? Are you gonna call a friend for help?
Learning html codes is somewhat fun and easy. You may feel anxiousness upon starting to learn but don’t get discourage, because from time to time, you can connect on what those information are teaching you.
Why not start learning today? – W3schools.com
3. Image Editing
Image editing is somewhat very fun and time consuming. But this skill is really very helpful in your blogging career as you want to add some flavor to your blog post through adding related images to your blog.
The problem is that, you don’t know how. Then you should start learning now. Try this website then watch and learn. – PhotoshopStar.com
If you want to see some tutorials through live actions, you can watch those free videos on YouTube.
4. Observation Skills
Well, you love to do blog hopping and post comments on some great blogs to make connections to the host of the blog. Sometimes you feel jealous how and what these guys are doing to become successful in their career.
Now, your skills of observation take place. Try to take a closer look to those articles on blog that you frequently read. If you find nothing, try to read it again till you noticed something.
Those skills are what successful bloggers and entrepreneurs have. Feel the presence of the information. Not just reading and implementing those things that are being taught to you without thinking or observing if you can do it.
Why not copy their styles and learn what you’ve experience?
You can learn here – CopyBlogger.com
5. Psychological Skills
I entered a coaching program because the person whom I refer to the program hired me to do it for him. I was surprise that he talk about psychological aspect of internet marketing.
This topic is rear and since I blog for almost two years, I haven’t encounter someone who have shared this aspect.
Knowing what the feelings of your readers are is a great advantage of a certain online marketer. Because he can determine that his client would likely to buy the product he promoted.
Why not try to learn from this guy? – ZacJohnson.com and read his ebook.
In The End…
If you have those skills above, you can stand what it takes in your blogging journey.
But in my side, I am glad that I manage to learn those html codings, computer troubleshooting and image editing before I learn about blogging. I am still coping up the knowledge and skill of being a real internet marketer. Thanks to all my great mentors and friends who had help me all the time.
I hope this post really benefited you and if you have something you can share, please share it in the comment below.
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Having some basic HTML knowledge is definitely not a bad thing. At least in my case I always find something that I dislike and want to change it, which requires modifying some strings of code, but overall nothing too complicated. So you don’t have to be an expert, but still being absolutely clueless is not an option as well.
These above links helps a lot as they are very important,learning some thing always helps you a lot.when ever you feel that we can learn some thing which will help in our progress then,it will always help you to get better .These always help to get the best out of it.
Having psychological skills is really important but I guess that’s where many of the bloggers fail.You came up with really nice point.I agree with you that we should always think about readers while writing articles or marketing any service or product online.
Good stuff Felix. I real a lot of lists-type articles on how to be successful at blogging, and this is the very first time someone included the psychological aspect into the mix. Nice work!
I think one area that is often overlooked in blogging and web design is the psychology of colors. It can make a huge impact on buying decisions as well as how long people stay on your site. Thanks for the interesting insight.
Thank you for sharing this nice post, Felix. It is so true that many bloggers do not like spending much of their time learning everything in their blogging venture because they can outsource most of the technical stuff, coding, image editing work, etc. I rarely encounter the aspect of psychological skills being important in an online business, so I think you have a very good point here.
yes, these skills are very small in size but all are very effective in long term. This is true that every blogger should know these little things. The resources you provided in this post are very helpful and easy to understand.
You are absolutely right, obvioursly, if you can turn on a computer, click your mouse and send emails you have enough basic knowledge to get started online, however, the more technical skills you posses to begin with the quicker you will be able to get your online business up and running.
Good post!
People don’t realize how much goes into working online. It take a lot of time and effort and it is no easy road. You really have to be dedicated and work ling hours, it doesn’t come easy.
You can’t really have all the skills that you need in order to be successful online. Actually, you just need to learn the basics for you to know the flow when you outsource the work. It can save you time and money because you’ll be getting a great result at once.