Why Guest Posting Can Damage Your Blogging Career

Now that is some serious damage...

OK, let me write this guest post. Wow! I know this; those home business opt ins will be flowing in, lies bees to honey, after the post gets published.

The waiting list is 3 months? No worries. I just KNOW this post will go viral, and so much targeted traffic will flow through my streams, that, I will have no clue what to do with the extra surge, and all the money which will flow in too.

Write a guest post. Wait. Wait. Hang on social sites. Write a post or 2 on your blog, during the time frame, while you wait.

You see how attaching yourself to 1, or a series, of guest posts, can damage your blogging career, right?

Guest posting can:

• influence you to develop a wicked attachment to an authority blog; attachments are painful burdens to carry, let me tell ya ;)
• force you to get lazy with your own blog; some rabid guest posters never build THEIR brand because they have no identity on their blog, they are serial guest posters without a cyber home
• cause you to wait, in the name of "patience", for your success to flow in

Hey I am a huge fan of guest posting. Snag a massive, targeted home business audience, pronto, through this approach....just take care of your home, first, by tending YOUR blog shop.

The Damage Part: Beware this Sneaky Error

Some well-meaning bloggers wait for their success to find them. The crowd writes a guest post then waits the days, or weeks, or months it takes for the post to be published.

During these days, and weeks and months, you should have written tens to hundreds of blog posts on your blog.

When I say hundreds, over months, I do mean hundreds, because you need to post 1 or more times daily to improve your writing skills

Writing guest posts does not provide the IMMEDIATE fix you need, unless you have fully posting and publishing rights on a guest post.

The fix? Heck you need to publish content now to make an impact. The sneaky error made by most bloggers is not so sneaky really; the crowd puts off doing uncomfortable stuff by developing a wicked attachment to "Their Big Break."

Nope, your Big Break starts now, by publishing as many posts as you can, on your blog, today, and meeting as many home business pros as you can.

The Big Break Never Arrives Until You Do

Success follows successful people, folks who push themselves each moment of each day. Attaching yourself to a guest post opportunity on a well-read blog blocks your success, because you are in Waiting Mode.

Even if the post goes live today, you are waiting, checking for comments, or page views, or the dream client, or the surge in ad revenue.

Meanwhile, I wrote 6 to 9 posts on my home business blogs today, making my star shine, branding me, while you wait, and wait, for your Big Guest Posting Break.

I arrive, because I push, and create, and create, and you will never arrive, because you are too attached to some opportunity, that you forget to push yourself, and brand you.

Write guest posts. Just make sure to push those home business posts out on your blog like a champion.

Has guest posting damaged your career by making the Big Break Attachment Mistake?

Or have you seen a massive surge in web traffic since guest posting?

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4 Tips to Create a Money Making Blog

Use these 4 tips to create a money making blog...

Are you blogging to help people? Why not make money? You deserve to prosper. 

Avoid the problem faced by most newbie - and even veteran - bloggers; feeling *funny* about posting ads on your blog.

Money making blogs:

• help you take extended vacations; not a bad gig
• can improve your credibility; readers generally gravitate toward people who have had success making money online
• can sweeten up your virtual real estate; once you make a few ducats through advertising expect more advertisers to line up, ready to pay top dollar for a post on your blog

Monetizing your blog is not a difficult endeavor, but making money persistently through blogging can be challenging.

Why? Persistent folks are few and far between. Cashing in grows difficult unless you persistently create relevant, targeted content on your home business blog.

Create Content Daily

If you create, you prosper. Wise home business buffs know the secret to creating; find inspiration around you.

Nature rocks. Fellow blogger's content rocks. Observe what happens, make a connection between your online business and the event, write.

Provide value. Receive value....aka, money.

Make Friends Daily

Make friends to make money. OK, make friends to make friends, to grow your network and to expand your influence. 

After all that good stuff, and after detaching from outcomes, you see that having 500 people retweet your latest post fattens your bank account.

This is a great thing, because you are also helping your buddies, promoting them through Tribes.

Rich people build large, massive networks of like-minded people who readily promote their content.

Of course, to make friends you must be a friend. Be a friend by promoting other folks aggressively across multiple networks, and also post valuable comments to their blogs.

Open Up Multiple Cash Channels

Never paint yourself into a corner. Think abundance. As your skill set improves open up channels through which you can prosper.

Example; generate ad revenue, run a prospering home business team, offer your ghostwriting skills, write paid guest posts (opportunities flow to you through your blog), or brainstorm 101 other ways through which you can prosper.

No limit exists to your home business prosperity channels. Be creative. Generate cash online through multiple channels.

Go Heavy on the Linking

Link up like a mad blogger. Why? 

Create a resource, that makes people stick around. As more people stick around a neat thing happens; you attract loyal readers.

Loyal readers tend to line your pocket by:

• clicking on your ads, creating passive cash flow for you
• hiring you out for your consulting services
• joining your home business team
• spreading the word by promoting you to their following

Think of your blog as a money making center. Content drives the money making.

By posting daily and growing your friend network you can create a money making blog over a period of weeks or months.

Do you generate steady cash flow through your blog?

How?

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How Do You Deal with Annoying People?

I snapped an image of this stunning sunset in Penang, Malaysia earlier this year...

You might be disgusted with how much time you spend catering to annoying people.

Or you feel guilty for labeling certain home business folks as, "annoying."

Forgive yourself. Even if you possess the patience of Job you will get annoyed by:

• people who constantly complain
• people who say they are ready to join your home based opportunity with they "have the money"
• people who criticize you after you have completed a job well done
• people who see the negative in virtually all circumstances
• people who hate you for what you do, even if you are doing really great things

As you can imagine I have run into these louses - umm, I mean, unhappy people - from time to time. At times, I have a compassionate heart.

At other times I give people a verbal beat down. But I soon learned that by doing one thing, I could generate cash online at a greater clip and grow my home business swiftly.

I could save myself hour's worth of agitation, and annoyance, and heartache, and heartburn, and nightmares, all by doing this 1 simple little thing...

I Ignore Them

I ignore annoying people. I am selectively ignorant. This is 1 secret to my success.

 I help people when they need help but I am a leader, not a savior, so I also let people figure stuff out on their own when they need to do so....this goes for my home business team, and for anybody who I meet.

I love people. But I love my precious time here on earth even more, and I love being blessed with a mind, and I would never dishonor God by allowing annoying people to waste my time or poop on my mind.

Sorry, but it is true.....because if you placate annoying people you make yourself a doormat. If however you ignore these individuals, claiming selective ignorance, they will:

• solve their own problems
• find problem solvers
• stop bugging you
• vanish as quickly as you move your attention away from them

I know how difficult it might be to let go annoying home business prospects or even team members but if you want to be a servant, you must let go people who no longer deserve your service.

You are a leader, not a home business savior. You help people who want to be helped, not who need you to save them.

After I changed my vision of self I stopped attempting to do the Savior Thing and simply did the Leader Thing, helping hungry people, future leaders, and my annoyances vanished for the most part.

You are not responsible for other people. Do your best job, help who wants to be helped, leave things at that.

Annoying Critics

When I run into an annoying critic, I smile, wish them the best, then leave them be.

I never engage a charging bull. That would be assinine. I simply ignore them after wishing them the best.

Leaders - who I allow into my mind - never toss angry, critical barbs your way.

Leaders are supportive, and nurturing, and of course, you can almost always take a leader's advice, assess it, and then decide whether or not to take the advice to heart.

Nasty critics on the other hand need to be swiftly ignored, and eradicated from your life, because these sniveling, weak-minded folks will trample all over your mind if you allow them to do so.

How do you deal with annoying people?

Do you annoy them back? lol....

Do you ignore annoying home business team members or prospects?

Or do you try to help every single person who meets you, even the people who want you to be a savior?