This Is It: The #1 Tip Ever In The History of Blogging!

This blog is full of tips. Tips to help you write better. Tips to encourage comments and shares. Tips to find your voice. Tips for using WordPress effectively. We even supply tips to ensure that your blog doesn’t suck eggs.

Lots of helpful, useful, easy to integrate into your blogging strategy kind of tips.

I want to offer a single tip this morning. It is one that I don’t think we talk about enough in the blogoshere.

In my estimation, this tip should be the foundation upon which all other blogging tips, techniques and strategies should be built.

It’s just that important.

Here it is:

Have fun.

Blogging is meant to be fun. Believe me, I know it can become a serious thing when it is your business and how you pay the bills. But at the core of it, it should be fun.

Have fun.

Do you have fun and enjoy writing your blog posts? Are you actually smiling when tapping the words from keyboard to computer? Is there a sense of excitement when you realize it’s blogging day?

If you consistently answer “no” to those questions – it’s time to get a fresh perspective – or it is simply time for you to remember one simple, yet powerful truth:

Have fun.

Have fun so:

1. You can experience the joy of taking something inside you that you are passionate about and bringing it to the full light of day for others to experience and enjoy.

2. You will translate that fun into energy and that energy into creation and that creation into meeting the needs of your readers.

3. You will have the proper attitude when the times of struggle hit you and your blogging.

4. You will stay in the game when others have dropped off like flies.

5. You will love your art and pass that love off to new bloggers just hitting the game. be an inspiration.

Have fun by:

1. Smiling when you write. You think I’m nuts right? Try it the next time you write and let me know how you feel.

2. Always writing on topics that have your interest and passion. Otherwise you will be boring – guaranteed.

3. Changing up your game every once in a while. Don’t become stagnate .

4, Being the devil’s advocate on a post – challenge your readers to think.

5. Pushing the envelope. Find a hot topic and write the heck out of it. See how people react.

6. Being different. In the land of sameness – Stand Out – please!

So there you have it, a short essay (with a few good tips) on having fun as a blogger. I’m hoping that the next time you write you will include a couple of these tips.

May you always have a happiness about you in this wonderful thing called blogging.

Your Turn:

What about this having fun thing? What things do you do to ensure you are always having fun with blogging?

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http://ariherzog.com Ari Herzog

I’m already different and I already take minority views.

The kicker inspiration for me is by refining the blogs in my feed reader. I’m gradually unsubscribing from so-called social media bloggers and adding more group blogs to my feed. I’d rather skim titles and click into what looks intriguing than know the same person wrote everything.

By refining what I read I focus on what I want others to read.
- http://frankdickinson.me Frank Dickinson
  
  Sounds like a good plan/strategy Ari. What is a “group Blog”?
  - http://ariherzog.com Ari Herzog
    
    This is one, for instance.
http://www.thejackb.com/ Jack

Hi Frank,

THANK YOU. Sorry, about the yelling but I LOVE this. The people that last in blogging do so because they are getting paid and or they are having fun.

I think that we are in sync today because my most recent post is very similar.

When people have fun they blog with passion and personality. It makes a huge difference.
- http://frankdickinson.me Frank Dickinson
  
  “When people have fun they blog with passion and personality. It makes a huge difference.” <–ABSOLUTELY!
  
  Like minds eh?
  
  Always a pleasure to see you here my friend!
http://www.ryanhanley.com/2012/01/02/how-my-experiment-in-seo-will-change-the-game-on-small-business-blogging/ Ryan | Strategies in Content Creation

Even if you write a blog for business you have to have fun with it or you will burn out. But this basically goes for everything in your life. You can grind and that is fine but there has to fun someplace…

Good post.

Ryan H.
- http://frankdickinson.me Frank Dickinson
  
  Spot on Ryan – spot on! Hope you are having a great weekend!
http://www.ipnostudio.com Andrea Hypno

I agree, if you don’t have fun then sooner or later you quit or write crap. Because blogging isn’t the most relaxing activity to do. I mean one thing is simply writing and one thing for example is trying to blog well which takes patience, reading, searching etcetera. Today I’m not that funny, those ******** at big G has cut my traffic in half as it always happens with every update they do. I always recover but this thing is becoming exhausting. I really hope that once FB has searches within with Bing they send G into the ionosphere, and imagine that I don’t like FB either.

Ok I’ve ranted enough, great and deep (if the term is correct) article Frank.

Have a great weekend!
- http://frankdickinson.me Frank Dickinson
  
  Thanks Andrea! The Google dance is never very much fun – but I hold the same philosophy that you always recover from one of their new dance moves – and that sure takes patience.
http://staffperformancesecrets.com/ Leon Noone

g’Day Frank,
Couldn’t agree more. Way back in the 1970s, I read this wonderful piece of advice from the great Robert Mager; “If your job isn’t fun, change your job.” He didn’t mean change employers.

it made great good sense then and still does now. it’s why I still say “make sure youhave fun,” after each blog comment I make. So……..
Make sure you have fun.
Best Wishes
Leon
- http://frankdickinson.me Frank Dickinson
  
  Hey Leon – good to see you.
  
  Great insight there – not having fun = a change is needed.
  
  Thanks for dropping in.
  Cheers!
http://www.shonaeaston.com/ Shona Easton

Yes! of course blogging should be fun! A fabulous post Frank, thank you.

I also think that a post should look interesting enough to read, with a photo or illustration and well laid out text that is not all in one long, massive, difficult to read paragraph. Sub titles make it look like it’s going to be a more interesting read and points or lists, like you have used here, are great too.
http://austrianalpineholidaysblog.com chalet lowonahill

Hi Frank – I’m shocked!

I can’t imagine people not having fun with their own “baby”. Why give it life if you’re then not going to play with it, feed it, nurture it , have fun with it and so on?

Is there a ‘blog protection society’ – I’ll join straight away and help save those poor neglected blogs!
Linda
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You are right! Everything will “sail smoothly” if we are having fun, not just in blogging but in everything we do. I Plus, it will be more interesting if a blog post is written naturally. “Naturally”-you’ll know that if the blog you are reading is enjoying.