With starting up a personal or business blog being so easy and your time being your biggest investment, it’s becoming easier and easier to set up and start a blog online. And with good reason. Now with so many resources online that walk you through how to start a blog and literally everything under the sun, many people are hopping online and changing their futures forever. Here are my favorite benefits of blogging and reasons to start a blog…
47 Reasons to Start a Blog
- You can make make money blogging and a fantastic living online.
- You can help make a difference in people’s lives
- It’s REALLY fun
- You get a lot of free stuff
- It can lead to getting a book published or being on TV
- All the sudden, your friends think you’re “cool”
- You can use it as a journal to work through emotional issues
- It’s super easy to set up when you go through BlueHost
- It builds confidence when you hear how much people love your posts and ideas
- It’s something you can do with your friends
- You make more money long-term having your own blog than being a freelance writer
- Blogging helps you become more creative, as you’re always thinking of new ideas to bring to your blog.
- It changes you; you start to become a leader
- You don’t have to get dressed up to go to work – work in your pj’s
- You can use it to outreach your current business. Say you’re a coach in person. Having a website online, makes your presence more known
- You can get a better job. Blogging is by far the best job I’ve ever had and I’ve worked pretty high up for multi-million dollar companies making boatloads of money.
- Learn more about other people. Their likes, dislikes, what problems plague them and how you can help.
- You make more friends.
- It increases your picture-taking skills
- Learn highly sought after skills like building a blog, getting traffic, SEO, networking, etc.
- You can create and sell a product like an eBook or course teaching something you know
- You get to talk to the people who inspire you. As a blogger, you have more credibility to be able to talk to the people who you absolutely adore.
- You get a lot of opportunities as a blogger that you wouldn’t, by not having a blog
- It’s a way to connect with your kids, spending more time with them doing DIY crafts, recipes, and fun things like that
- You discover more about yourself than you previously knew because your audience is going to tell you 🙂
- Going to blogging conferences and meeting other bloggers
- Always being challenged to do your best
- Always being inspired by life and looking at life through a camera lens, adding beauty to your life
- You establish a community.
- You get more credibility in the area in which you’re teaching in
- Your kids can earn better money helping you out on your blog than they could working a fast-food restaurant
- Learn about different cultures all over the world
- You can blog from anywhere you want
- When your friends are all asking you the same question, you can save time, by simply putting the information online for their reference. That is how SarahTitus.com got started!
- You learn more about companies, which ones are honorable and which ones are scams. This helps you become a better shopper in your personal life.
- You can use your influence for good. Helping the world and spreading the message of Christ.
- It can lead to coaching as you learn how to blog yourself. Coaching is very lucrative!
- It can help you become a better writer as you are writing more and more and learning things like SEO and Google optimization
- It helps you be less of an introvert (which I am) because you are constantly putting yourself out there.
- Blogging gives your life more purpose. Suddenly you are accountable to a LOT of people.
- You can add blogging to your resume.
- You get to travel more.
- Your style shows through on your blog, through your design, picture making skills, etc.
- You get to try out new things when a company sends you something to test out.
- You get an amazing satisfaction when someone like Target or Marie Callender’s hires you to promote their business
- You can make enough money to be able to stay home with your kids instead of working outside the home
- You can put as much time or as little time into it as you want (how much you make is dependent on that amount of time).
Ready to go? These two posts will walk you through everything you need to know to successfully set up a money making blog, the EASY way!
