 Howdy, hope you don't mind but from time to time I'm gonna have to take a swig because strangely enough I'm feeling warm as I do this video Temperatures have been in the 50s lately and suddenly it's in the 70s today. So what are you gonna do anyway? I want to talk about blogging or more specifically how blogging is Difficult and it sounds weird coming from someone like me. So I'm gonna explain it, you know At the beginning of the month had one of my long-time online friends decide that she was going to stop blogging Now we both started our pinnacle blogs and I have to say it that way because I started blogging Three years before she did but my most popular blog and her blog started pretty much around the same time in 2008 and When she started out she was writing about three posts a week Whereas my first three years. I was actually averaging over 300 Articles a year That's just me. That's just how I was Anyway, she started out with the three and then at some point it became two articles a week then last year there was some point she started going to one article a week and Then she changed up the focus of her blog a little bit after getting some coaching Trying to be more business directed and then at the beginning of May. She decided, you know what I'm done She had different business goals and decided that blogging wasn't a part of it And so she shut it down and I'm kind of depressed along with a lot of other people because we enjoyed her writing She's probably one of the best online Networkers you've ever met and you know that was kind of sad and And You know you wish you could continue blogging, but she said she wasn't gonna close it down because you just never know and I Thought about that because you know blogging does take some time, but it's not just writing Because the beginning of this week this other guy who I don't think he's a longtime blogger But his claim to fame is that at this point he's up to 134 ebooks Goodness, you know, I guess I need to get up get going here since I only have a couple I have other books, but I have to get going anyway He is one of these guys who used to advocate writing between five and eight thousand word long blog posts I just can't imagine eight thousand thing all the time. I can't imagine a five thousand all the time I just wrote a post that ended up being fifty six hundred words and that Way out of my room. I mean I write fast, but you know fifty six hundred words takes a while to put together So anyway, he decided that he was gonna stop taking comments now this is a guy who used to talk a lot about how you get people to come by by Responding to comments and how you should be going to other blogs and visiting and whatever and his reason for Disabling comments is he said it felt too much like work having to respond to comments Wow Really now if I was getting two or three hundred comments on my blog posts I might say wow, that's a lot whole lot of work trying to get to that I'm nowhere close to that actually he wasn't close to that either But if this guy is trying to put out all this other stuff I mean if he's really trying to write five to eight thousand word Post every single time and he's putting out ebooks like their water You know, maybe you don't kind of have that time I mean, you know blogging is one of those kind of things where There's a lot of people who try to start blogging and find out that they can't and one bit of advice that I always give I've written it multiple times on my blog I've probably said it in another video somewhere over all these years and I've said it in interviews when I've given interviews is That my recommendation to people who say they want to start a blog or they asked me should they be blogging? I say okay. Here's what you do you sit down and you write ten articles if it takes you a day If it takes you a week if it takes you a month see if you can write ten articles If you can write ten articles Not only can you blog but you now have ten articles that you can program into your blog to go live at different times So you've already got some content willing to go if you can't write ten articles Don't even start blogging because you're just going to be wasting your time. You're wasting the space There's nothing that looks worse than having a blog that ends. It just ends and it's there I mean the blog is fear as we call it is replete with tons of blogs that people have stopped writing. I finally had to go through my blog reader a few weeks ago to Get rid of a lot of blogs because they hadn't written since 2014 and I really had you know I knew the names, but I hadn't realized that a lot of those people had stopped writing and you know, you just feel Something you know, I'm not necessarily sure what it is, but you kind of feel a loss You're not really sure where those people are some of those people are connected to on social media But for a lot of those people the only time I ever really got to talk to them Happen to be on their blogs or when they came to visit mine because what happens often is when people stop blogging they stop Visiting and commenting on new blogs as well. So blogging really isn't as easy as people think it is It's not always about the writing. I mean, you know, like I said when I first started My I'm just sharing blog. I was writing about 300 articles a year a little bit more than that Now I'm down to a point where I've tried to write at least one article of Week on I'm just sharing and one article a week on my business blog Which is called Mitch's blog and if I get to my other three blogs that week cuz you know really got three blogs Then I get to them because I write for other people as well. So, you know, it's not necessarily easy It's hard But it's one of those kind of things where if you love Writing if you feel you have something to say, it's a lot of fun and you can make money off of it Now I will tell you the truth. I have not geared myself really towards making money off of it I'm thinking about it though. I mean, I really need to think about it If I'm gonna continue writing all this stuff I need to think about making real money and I mean real money. I don't mean like, you know, $5 a month I mean, you know sustainable money. I mean, if I'm gonna do all this writing imagine We'll start trying to make more money from it. I'm writing for myself than others. Wouldn't you think? So that's my thought for today, but I'd like to hear from, you know, you guys if you do blog What do you think? Do you think that blogging is hard? You think it's easy? Do you think it's a shame when people stop blogging or when people stop answering comments or you know, do you care at all? Let me know. Y'all take care. Hope you have a wonderful weekend