What to tell a newbie blogger is contributed by La Tease Rikard of Teasa’s Blog Marketing Tips & Techniques. 

“I’m going to blog so I can make money from home.”

That’s what I overheard recently while at a marketing conference this past weekend. It came from a kid who was probably about 17 years old, talking to one of the guest speakers. The speaker told the kid good luck.

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Children, teens included, are wonderful creatures, and I say creatures as a term of endearment. You know why? Because they don’t believe in failure. They still believe in their dreams.

So undaunted, this kid went off to make his dream come true.

If I could have talked to this kid I imagined what I would have told him.

“Kid, it’s possible to make money online, but you must be diligent with your postings. There will be days that you don’t feel like blogging or days when you don’t have a clue what you will write about. Those are the times when you really need to push yourself uphill.”

Many of us veteran bloggers (anyone blogging more than 6 months) will tell you, those days will come when you look at the computer like another piece of furniture. No big deal.

But, if you are serious about blogging, you should write for your reader, the very person you started blogging for in the beginning. Write for your readers, not for clicks to your affiliate programs. Give your readers what they are looking for, not what you think will gain stumbles, faves in technorati or diggs.

Stay true to the game, write what you know, read about the industry, stay on top of upcoming trends, and give it to your readers. Give them a reason to subscribe to your feeds. Think about newspapers and magazines, you only subscribe because there is a value to it. That you are going to derive a benefit from.

The measurement of success is not Page Rank, nor the front page of Digg. The true measure of success is with the readers who read your blog.

If you were to advice a newbie blogger, what will you tell him/her? Should you advice kids to blog in the first place? Share your thoughts in the comment. :)

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