Most of new bloggers are thinking that a blogger is like a regular site. This is far from the truth. A blog is a place where a person can write about his own life, can have his opinions published there, teachers and students can share their thoughts and ideas, In one word a blog is a place for people who have lots of writing ideas.

Sure you can make money from your blog but don’t treat it as a regular website.

I have read many articles advising new business starters to create blogs about any niche market they can immagine and this is not true. Tight niches are profitable enough but some of them are limited and this would cause anyone to run out of ideas after a short period of time.

So, my advice is before creating a blog you need to select a topic that you are able to write about, and you must enjoy writing to make money. Many people make blogs to just make money but your first priority should be writing good helpful content for the people and money will come.

I plan some content weeks in advance. I also keep a notepad filled with post ideas with me at all times. Through reader feedback, I have been able to establish a few consistent weekly posts/series. I also leave the door open for spontaneous writing based on timely matters or breaking news.

By putting effective systems in place, I have been able to produce a steady stream of post ideas. Most people could replicate these behaviors and produce similar results; however, I think few possess the discipline to write about, or act upon, those ideas on a daily basis. They think writing has more to do with “inspiration than perspiration,” when the opposite is actually true. Professional writers, journalists or bloggers find a way to work between periods of inspiration.

Even if you’ve got great systems to generate new post ideas yet lack the discipline to execute on a daily basis, you will eventually stop posting to your blog and abandon it altogether. I’ve seen it happen in the newspaper business, and I see it happening in the blogosphere too. Thanks for indulging my long comment/reply, but you definitely “inspired” me to write.

I’ve quite a number of ideas to blog about, but unsure as to which to start first. Thus, laying out the topics and organizing them would be good to start off.

Lack of blogging ideas? Well, one way I suddenly thought of, is basically to blog your comments you post in other people’s blog.

Vern.
http://www.vernlai.com

Plus keeping online files and folders is excellent aswell as offline files and folders as you can cross reference both worlds as it were and combine and adopt different writing styles.

Cheers for this planning reminder!

Another thing I’ve found useful is to plug my posts into Omnigraffle and see how they are arranged. Often times, I’ll realize that there’s logical posts space that I hadn’t seen before.

Now if I only had time to catch up with a post log that grows faster than my ability to post.

Editorial calendar, idea bank ~ these are both great terms for this system. Thanks to all of you for sharing your processes. It is a great help.

With out plan first few days will be ok but in the long run we won’t be having some thing to express.

The selection of blogging topic where the author is having command and able to deliver in the long run make the blog the successful story.

Very insightful post!