Lilian Fortune

Blogging can generate mixed feelings. it can be an intimidating process and can also be a most exhilarating adventure; You’d get confused about a lot of things like; what topic to write about, what platform to write on, when to write, how to write. You could also start to doubt yourself with questions like; would my content interest my readers? What if I run out of ideas? What if I run out of motivation? What if i’m not as productive and creative as all the other bloggers out there? These questions haunted my early blogging days, but in time, I grew to embrace the basics of blogging and come to terms with the answer that “it’s not that hard.” It’s not so hard to start a blog and be consistent with it. 

What is a blog though?

A blog is the shortened form of the word -weblog. 

A blog can be defined as a website or an online piece of content on a particular topic of interest. It can be in text or video form. These can be practically on anything including entrepreneurship, fishing, parenting, dog walking etc. If you can think of it, it can be made into a blog. The blogger (creator of the blog) shares their knowledge on specific niches and topics with members of the public, teaching them in details what they need to know about that particular niche or topic.

There are thousands of blog topics and niche to choose from. your blog can be about anything. There are so many types of blogs you could concentrate on as a beginner. You could be a;

• Celebrity blogger: cover topics about celebrities on your blog. Talk about their lifestyle, their biographies, 

• News blogger: you could show your journalism skills through your blog, concentrating your creativity on news within your locality or even across your borders.

• Pet blogger: if you’re a huge lover of animals, you could throw in all that love and knowledge for pets and animals into your own blog. 

• Fashion blogger: if you know a great deal about fashion trends, then being a fashion blogger might just be your calling. Throw in all that energy you put into getting updated on fashion trends into your own blog.

• Movie blogger: Blog about what movies are the talk of the town, blog about your opinion on these movies, interact with people and suggest great movies to a whole lot of movie freaks like you. A lot of movie bloggers are often invited to watch premium shows before its even released to the public so they can write reviews about them. You see, it’s a win win for you.

• Personal blogger: share your interests, experiences, travels and adventures with your audience, with members of the public. Influence them with your lifestyle. Go out there and be out there and show the rest of the world what they are missing by not doing a few things that you do.

• Self improvement blogger: Teach people how to manage the physical and non physical resources available to them in their quest of improving their lives. Teach them how to manage and balance their life with the things happening around them. Help them improve their lives and their esteemed. Motivate them.

• Business blogger: You can share so much knowledge about the business and investment world. Tell people about certain investments and agencies that can help them improve their lives!

• Lifestyle blogger: Share your knowledge on diverse cultures, arts, countries and news uncover deep and forgotten cultures and ways of life and share this with the public.

• Travel blogger: A lot of people love to travel these days, if you’re one of these people then you should channel all that effort into creating a blog of your own. Teach people about the beauty in so many countries, suggest where they should go for vacations and all that.

• Food blogger: share your ideas on recipes, ingredients, healthy eating, fine dining and all that. Your blog could hit the interest of the food business world and before you know it, you could be getting invitations to five star restaurants to try out their foods and write reviews on them. 

The list goes on and on. I’m basically trying to say that you can blog about everything and anything you like. Blogging is diverse and broad. The topics and niches to blog on are endless and in high demand all over the world. 

• Blogging is not age discriminatory: what I’m trying to say is anyone can start a blog. It does not matter how young or how old you are, if you can think it, you can write it and if you can write it, you can share it. 

• it’s not number discriminatory: You can write as much topics as you want under the canopy of blogging. Blogging does not restrict you to one topic and one topic alone. If you have interest in more than one topics, why not turn all those topics into blogs and write about them? Blogging would never limit you to one topic. It is versatile and diverse. Do what you want to do, talk about what you want to talk about as much as you want to talk about it, when you want to talk about it.

Why is it a good idea to start a blog?

Blogging helps you do a lot of things and it’s even so much better when you have a passion for the specific topic you want to blog on.  Below is a list of some reasons  one may consider starting a blog;

• Make an income for yourself from your home.
• It lets you share your story with the rest of the world
• It lets you inspire and change the lives of other people.
• It builds and gives you a reputation
• It lets you build productive and promising brands.
• It lets you inspire other creative, promising and uprising bloggers.
• It puts you on the map and right track of success.
• It gives you a community.

Now that you know what a blog is all about, why not give this exciting journey a try.