So are you confused about whether to start a personal blog or not?
As a curious student of digital marketing I was stuck on a question about niche selection for my blog and it took a whole one year for me to finally come to start a personal blog again.
Yes, again I had a blog with same domain earlier also and I did all experiments of my learnings of DDIP there.
Procrastinating a blog just because you are overthinking about your perfect niche is insanity.
And here are 10 reasons which pushed me to step ahead and start a personal blog again.
#1 It will help you find your unique niche.
On your personal blog you can write on various niche or on general topics you love to learn and share about.
You will be able to discover the niche you like to write the most about and the topics you wanna explore more deeply.
#2 Your personal blog will help you build your personal brand
A brands launchpad is always going to be a personal brand, people trust other people more then a life less logo.
You can see on social media that personal brands has more followers then their company’s page like Elon Musk has more followers on Twitter then Spacex and Tesla.
#3 It will help in improving skills
You will develop technical skills, writing skills, communication skills , content marketing skills and many other skills that are very important to grow a business in digital world.
Content Marketing
Content marketing is the future of marketing.
With the help of content marketing you can build a brand, increase sales, earn more profit and can reinvest in content marketing.
This funnel ensures consistent profit generation as said by my mentor Digital Deepak.
Growth of a brand with contant marketing is the new way of selling products and services in the market to ensure long term growth and build trust in the audience.
Communication Skills
Our ability to communicate complex information helped our ancestors survive among other species.
Our ability to share news of dangers or opportunities, to create and teach has led to all the inventions with which we are able to survive today.
If you share your experiences, learnings, stories of failure and success to others then you are paving a way for the survival of people who resonate with you.
Therefore in order to express yourself in a simple way and become able to contribute in the world by passing the information so that people can live a fulfilling life, you must improve your command over language and improve your communication skills.
Your personal blog will give you a medium to communicate with people and pass out your life experiences to the world.
Do not worry about your average writing skills or if you don’t know to write, no one is born an expert, you will eventually learn that all.
Even i procrastinated my first post in overthinking about only posting a fully optimised article, but now I am directly typing.
Technical skills
For creating a personal blog you will need to buy a domain and hosting and set up you blog and these aare all amazing stuff to learn in 2022 and you can learn and experiment all the skills just by starting and building a personal blog.
#4 You will be able to explore and know yourself better
When you start writing, your ability to observe your life will improve, you can connect the dots from your past, you become more aware about your life and with these abilities you can analyse yourself better and can plan your life ahead in a systematic way to overcome your difficulties and challenge yourself to keep growing and improving in life.
Your willingness to share your success will help you acknowledge it and celebrate it.
Challenging yourself and celebrating every small win will bring resolution in your life.
You will start building and attracting positive things and habits in your life.
Believe me your personal blog will transform you into a better version of yourself.
#5 You will build the habit of progressive note-taking.
Your blog posts are your organised notes which will always be there with you.
Your content is a comodity and you are the product.
Your unique voice emerges out of feedback, not from your decision. It evolves over time with exposure to the audience.
Your published content is the ultimate form of note taking.
By Digital Deepak
#6 It will boost your confidence
Believe me you will not be a same person after creating and consistently writing on a blog for 10 months.
It feels good to confidently tell people that you hobby is to write on your personal blog.
#7 You will be able to connect with like minded people
You can capture your ideas on your personal blog and people who are already involved in the field can notice it and you will be able to connect with them and make it real.
Your Network is your Networth
People with similar experiences as yours will love to read about your story and that will become your community with whom you can speed up your growth.
So creating a personal blog is basically a growth hack too.
#8 Your blog will help you own your Name online
It is possible that your name can collide with someone else’s on this planet.
So, its better to own the domain of your name and start a personal blog.
#9 you can show it as your portfolio
If you are looking for content writing oppourtunities, then your personal blog can work as your portfolio.
#10 You will start consuming a lot of good content
In order to create good content you will have to read a lot of books and your research work will force you to read a lot of other articles on same topic which will build your knowledge.
So, don’t think a lot.
Believe me your story matters a lot.
Your experiences matter a lot.
You have an audience waiting for you to start writing so that they can read.
Start today and keep growing.
ALL THE BEST.