{"id":22,"date":"2014-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:02:10","slug":"blogging-blunders-do-you-know-how-to-fix-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/blogging-blunders-do-you-know-how-to-fix-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Blunders Do You Know How To Fix Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"previewPostBlock imagePostBlock\">\n<div class=\"posRelative\">\n<ul class=\"postVideoSlider\">\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blogging\/\">Blogging<\/a> Blunders, Do You Know How To Fix Them? \u00a0<\/strong>We&#8217;ve\u00a0all made them at some point, the important thing is to correct them so that they don&#8217;t hold \u00a0you back!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Check these out and see if you need to <strong>fix any of these blogging blunders!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Blogging Blunder#1<\/strong>: \u00a0<span>NO SALES\u00a0<\/span><span>PSYCHOLOGY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>We\u2019re talking about \u201cbusiness\u201d blogging and business means\u00a0<\/span><span>profiting because you\u2019ve provided value to your customers or clients.\u00a0<\/span><span>If you profit WITHOUT providing value shame on you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>If you provide value WITHOUT profiting, shame on the people you\u2019re providing value to.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>You\u2019ve got to build your business blog,\u00a0<\/span><span>and create\u00a0your messaging in a way that leads to an exchange of money<\/span><span>\u00a0that sustains your business.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Blogging Blunder#2<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0No Tribe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>You\u2019re in business for yourself. Don\u2019t mistake that for being in business\u00a0<strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><span><strong>yourself<\/strong>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>There are two ways to approach building your blog, getting\u00a0<\/span><span>readers, and attracting team members&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>You can stand on the virtual street corner all day and shout, \u201cI\u2019m awesome!\u00a0<\/span><span>Check out my blog!\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>and you might get a few people to stop by and read\u00a0<\/span><span>or listen\u2026 building your blog readership painfully slow\u2026 one\u2026 reader\u2026 at\u2026<\/span><span>a\u2026 time\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Or, you can enlist the help of others (your tribe) who go out and recommend\u00a0<span>you as a trusted authority and a leader to their friends. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>They do this by\u00a0<\/span><span>commenting on your blog posts and sharing your posts on social media.\u00a0<\/span><span>You\u2019ll reach endless numbers of people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Blogging Blunder#3<\/strong> &#8211; Free Is Always Best<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>There are only so many hours in the day and just about\u00a0<span>anything that\u2019s \u201cfree\u201d isn\u2019t likely designed to make you\u00a0<\/span><span>money right out of the box. You\u2019re gonna have to tweak,\u00a0<\/span><span>and tailor, and adjust, and guess what?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>A penny saved is a penny earned right,\u00a0<\/span><span>unless the effort you\u2019re putting into saving that proverbial penny is costing you the\u00a0<\/span><span><strong>REAL<\/strong> money and success you\u2019re after with your business blog.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Blogging Blunder#4<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0No Call To Action<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>People like to be told what to do &#8211; it&#8217;s true. \u00a0If there is an action you want them to take (and there should be if you have a business blog) then you have to tell the: \u00a0Like, subscribe, join,.. sign up, buy, try, share pin &#8211; WHATEVER IT ISD, tell them. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you much success,<\/p>\n<p><span>Valeska<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeBoldBeBrave<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Valeska@valeskavanvliet.com<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging Blunders, Do You Know How To Fix Them? \u00a0We&#8217;ve\u00a0all made them at some point, the important thing is to correct them so that they don&#8217;t hold \u00a0you back! Check these out and see if you need to fix any of these blogging blunders! Blogging Blunder#1: \u00a0NO SALES\u00a0PSYCHOLOGY We\u2019re talking about \u201cbusiness\u201d blogging and business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kwicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}