Overcoming Your Fear of Blogging

This guy lives without fear. Do you?

I am assuming that a certain number of people out there suffer from a fear of blogging. Or rather, we could simply call it a “fear of starting.”

Because if you are not already a pro blogger (what, you haven’t joined the circuit already?), then you are going to be coming at the blogging thing in much the same way you would enter any other business venture. You won’t know exactly what you are getting into at first. It will feel like a risk, even if the start up costs are low (or non-existent). At the very least you are investing your time and you might even feel stupid if it totally flops, right?

That was a fear that I had at first too. But at some point I got so sick of my day job and putting up with office politics that I no longer cared.

I decided that it was time to break free. I did not know how I was going to do it, but I was super frustrated and angry at my day job, and I wanted out.

So I started plotting to build my freedom.

Here is the process I went through:

1) Get inspired.
2) Experiment and take action. Do stuff. Try stuff.
3) Find what works and then scale it up.

Let’s take a closer look at this process.

Becoming inspired by other people

The first step in overcoming a fear of “starting” for me was to get inspired.

I was inspired by many different bloggers back in the day. There were the usual people like John Chow and Problogger and so on. But I also stumbled on a guy named Court who really made a lot of sense to me, and he was also very transparent. In fact, his transparency was even greater than the “big names” in Internet marketing, and that made a big impact. For example, Court showed how he had ranked for a single keyword, exactly how much money it was making for him, and why he did not even care if other people chased it. He was already on to bigger and better things.

I was inspired by people who could make more money online in one day than I made after several months at my day job.

I was inspired by people who had built a system like an eBook or a website that was churning out income with very little additional effort on their part.

I was infatuated with the idea of building a lean business that could keep paying me over and over again.

This was real freedom, and I wanted a piece of it.

After I got this idea of passive income in my head, it really made me jump to that next level with Internet marketing. I was serious enough at this point to put up some real money (less than a hundred bucks though) and try to build something.

I was ready to take action. This is a really important part of the process!

Taking action blindly until something works

Admittedly, I took action blindly.

There are a million and one ideas for how to build an income stream on the Internet.

The problem is not in finding the right idea, the problem is in the implementation. The execution. The follow through.

At first, I did not understand what follow through was necessary. I secretly hoped that it was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Put up an eBook, set up a shopping cart, and people should be banging down the door to give me money, right?

It didn’t work that way.

I was taking action, but nothing was working.

And so, like many people who get infatuated with Internet marketing, I bounced from one idea to the next for a while. I tried a few different things and made a few different websites.

At one point I slapped up some advertising on a site, and it did nothing. Zip. I had no traffic, so how was I going to make any money?

But I left that site there, and I came back to it occasionally and worked on it, and it eventually got a trickle of traffic.

After ignoring the site for a long time I realized that someone had clicked on an ad! I had made money.

It wasn’t much, but it was enough to show me that it worked.

Scaling up what works

Now that I knew what had a chance at working, I expanded on the success.

Eventually I was earning 100 dollars each month. This was hopeful, but not too exciting. If I had realized the full potential at the time I probably would have been much more excited.

About a full year later (and a lot of sporadic work) the site was doing about $500 per month in income.

I was excited at this point but I also got very frustrated. Does that sound crazy? Here I was, earning an extra $500/month like clockwork, and I was disappointed. I still had my day job, which was no fun at all.

So I worked even harder. I put up more and more articles. I experimented with new content formats. I pushed.

And for a full year, nothing happened. The income stayed steady at right around $500/month.

But at the end of that year, something amazing happened. In the course of just 90 days, the income shot up to $2,250/month on that website.

I was in business. Real business, as my monthly living expenses were floating at around $1,000.

Needless to say, I quit my day job.

And I have never looked back.

This is how I overcame my own fear. Inspiration, action, and leverage.

In order to embrace this process I had to be fairly miserable with my life first. I had to be sick enough of my day job that I was willing to go way out on a limb and try something new.

So take advantage of these wonderful opportunities the internet provides to everyone. To see an example of how to take advantage of it go to: http://visitwebpages.info/paypalchecks/