Your First Blog Entry And Where It Leads

The First Blog Entry – and Where it Leads

Now it’s time to write the first entry.  It’s time to take the first step real step to building a Blog Empire for profit. 

You’ve decided what unique contribution you can make to the blogosphere, found the place where you will carve your niche and establish your capitol. 

You’ve pored over blog designs, scribbled up logos, picked and discarded a hundred names, finally settling on one that will tell your readers who you are and what they can expect in your Blog Empire.

You’ve picked advertisers, designed coffee cups and sweatshirts with your logo on them, maybe even ordered a few for yourself and close friends.

But now it’s time to give your readers all you can. Your first entry is the cornerstone of your Blog Empire, and it’s time to lay it.

Once you write it, you’ll probably find that the second flows from it, and then the third from the second. In fact, all those ideas you have that you want to share with the world will inspire other ideas and reveal more genius and more creativity than you ever dreamed you had.

The first entry doesn’t need to be the best you’ll ever write.  In fact, as you write hundreds, even thousands of entries, you’ll hone your skill, improve your delivery, and sharpen your message.

The first entry doesn’t need to grab the world by the throat.  In fact, it may be the least-viewed entry you’ll ever write, as each entry brings more readers who become voluntary citizens of your Blog Empire.

But the first entry will be the most important entry you ever write, because with it, you dedicate yourself to building a Blog Empire that will bring you enjoyment and profit until the day you decide to go on to bigger and better things.  It will be the most important entry, because if you never write it, your Blog Empire will remain only a dream, and the Blogosphere will be denied all the enjoyment and information that you can uniquely bring it.

And you’ll find that when you pass the thousandth reader, the millionth page view, the first month after you decide that being a blogger is something you want to do and can do full time, you’ll look back on that first entry and realize it was the cornerstone of a Blog Empire of which you are immensely proud. 

Theodore Roosevelt once said, "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Blog your way to victory, you can do it