Ten tips for successful blogging

I am still reading the very interesting book called “Blog Marketing: The revolutionary new way to increase sales, build your brand, and get exceptional results”, and today I have been reading up on ten tips for successful blogging.

• Be real
• Be passionate
• Write often
• Link lots
• Leave comments on other blogs
• Have fun
• Push the envelope
• Ping
• Use feeds
• Create meaningful titles

I think that only one of these ten tips needs a comment, and that´s because it might be difficult to understand what it means just by looking at the list above. What I am referring to is “push the envelope”. Blogging is a rather new way to communicate, and with a new way to communicate you should try something unusual, don´t be like the rest. If nothing new happens to a new communication tool, it ends up dead in a while… therefore, you should ask questions and try new ways – this is how you will be noticed. For instance, podcasting and video-blogging started when someone asked “why should blogging only be text?”