Top Reason Most Bloggers Fail
There are always list posts floating around the blogesphere telling you why people do and don’t do this and that. And why you should do this that way and blah blah.
Just thought I’d make a 1 item post. I believe this is the top reason, most bloggers fail.
No More Ideas
A lot of bloggers simply run out of things to say. This happens to the best, most prolific bloggers I’m sure and has happened to me a lot. And I’m not a prolific blogger, this is my first real blog. Before this I have just spent years building and marketing static sites.
Anyway, here are a few crucial things that I feel best avoid this issue:
- Blog about what you love. If you’re honestly passionate about something, it should be hard to stop yourself from writing. Not the other way around. Think about something you love. A band, your favorite movie, actor… whatever. I bet if people mention X you can’t stop talking about X right? That should be what your blogging niche should feel like. If you don’t feel the same way about Internet marketing as you do about X, don’t write about it. Because sooner or later, you’ll get bored.
- Use inspiration to your advantage. I’m sure lots of you have read posts and thought of a response or different ways of expressing what was said. In what you feel, would be a more creative way. Use inspiration like this and draw from people you admire to create content. Don’t copy. Absorb and expand.
- Draw from experience. Use your own experiences in what ever niche you write in to make your content unique. People like personality, creativity and passion. If you’re just another generic blog saying what’s already been said over and over, and you’re doing nothing differently… It will be very hard to succeed.
- Focus. Pretty much a bland point, but valid. One way to think up new content if you’re stressing because you’ve run dry is to just FOCUS! Just actually sit there with no distractions and look at your niche. Think about what you want to read and what people need and start churning content out. Do it loosely until you find your rhythm. Just letting your fingers fire away with a topic in mind can sometimes leave you surprised at your own creativity. You can tidy it all up later.
- Write about what you know. A very basic high school like point. But it’s absolutely true. Writing about what you know is just… the most sensible thing to do. In terms of… trying to make money with a blog and marketing a blog. It’s very hard to write prolifically about something you know little about, it’s also hard to market in a niche you don’t understand. If you’re going to blog. Write about what you know.
So, this is just the top reason in my opinion. Share your top reason if you don’t believe this is the top reason 
Be back soon with no doubt. A very long list post!
Actually I myself don’t have big issue with run out of the idea..In my case the bigger problem is because often time I had stuck in the moment because of my grammar and vocabulary limited
No more ideas is a lame excuse. There is so much resources out there that are able to inspire. Social bookmarking sites, other blogs, forum discussions or even random ideas that drop by during our daily activities.
Plainly speaking, some of these people that use “no more ideas” is lazy… Enough said.
No offense to those who used “no more ideas” for their hiatus but I seriously think productivity is a problem.
Agreed
This is why I think you should only write on a subject or subjects you are actually interested in and passionate about. Not only to stop yourself from getting bored but also to provide a fresh outlook on what it is that inspires you as apposed to just repeating what’s been said.
This is a good list. I hate the fact that I suffer from one or two of them, but it’s still a good list!
As a blogger who loves what I write about, even I can suffer from a lack of ideas now and then. I think the trick is to keep trying to inspire yourself, and to KEEP LEARNING. If you’re improving at what you do you’ll have more to talk about, and your posts will be of better quality.
It’s not easy to maintain the blog attracting, so I guess creativity is the key…Creativity to find interesting topic, design, and etc.
If you want to make money blogging, I think the most important thing is to keep at it, build an inventory of quality content and don’t give up. It’s not a get rich quick scheme but more like a marathon. You have to be willing to be in it for the long haul.
Good points, Nick. I think its very important to write about stuff that interests you, rather than what you think will make money. There’s too many blogs obviously written for SEO reasons in an attempt to monetize them.