How to start a blog – 10 Reasons why you should consider starting a blog
1/ Market and promote something
Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your business, product, or service.
This means you can sell something online through your blog or you can use it merely for informative purposes. Point people to your blog URL. Link your blog to your social channels. Let people know where and how they can find you.
2/ Blogging helps people
Many blogs are written to help people who may be going through similar situations that the blogger has experienced. For example, this article is written to help you start a blog, hopefully helping you to miss some of the errors we made when Infobunny was started. Helping people is a great reason to start a blog.
Blogs can cover a whole range of topics from health and fitness to bookkeeping. If you need to read up on something to get help then there will a one or two blogs that can help you with what you need.
3/ To establish yourself as an expert
Blogs can help you establish yourself as an expert just by sharing your knowledge
4/ Become knowledgeable within a niche or topic
If you are interested in a subject then there is nothing better than writing about that topic to help you become knowledgeable about it. Read up on your niche then create something that puts you have learned into practical help for others.
5/ Stay connected to friends or family
Share family news, blog style. Blogging is a great way to create a lifestyle blog that is geared to your own life experiences
6/ Make money
There are just so many ways to make money with your blog. We covered this earlier in our How to monetize your blog section above
7/ To be creative
If your creative then blogging is a great way to share what you do.
8/ Build contacts and a network
By adding a simple contact list to your blog you can quickly and easily create a mailing list
9/ Build an online resume
Nothing speaks louder than having a fully working online blog to show off your skills and talents. Back it up with great social channels and you have a great tool that can influence your prospective employer and customers.
10/ To grow your brand