How to Become a Professional Blogger - Career Blogger

Become a Professional Blogger

Blogging is the one of the best and safest online businesses and work at home jobs. It is very easy to become a blogger. It is free and the only thing you invest is your time. You make money, learn more, find new friends and introduce your abilities to the world just by spending your time.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

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     Are you a writer? Are you able to write articles about what you know or what you love? If yes you are already qualified for blogging. To become a blogger, you just need to be able to write. You can even read what the others have written about the same topic and then write your own articles using your own words and sentences.
     If you are not a writer, you can create and improve this ability in yourself. It is very easy. Just start writing about anything that you like and anything that happens to you daily. Then you will find out that it is not that hard and you can write too.
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     Choose a niche or topic. You need to choose something to blog about. For example if you are a good cook, you can blog about cooking. If you are a photographer, you can write about photography and share the photos you take in your blog. It is recommended to choose a special topic because blogs that have no special subject to focus on can not attract people.
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     Register a domain for your blog or sign up for a free blog at http://www.blogger.com
     If you prefer to register your own domain name for your blog, the platform that I recommend is the WordPress. This is the software that you have to download and install on your website to make a blog. It is free: http://wordpress.org/
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     Your blog is read? So it is time to write and post article to it. Start writing and posting.
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     Keep your blog updated. Try to post new articles at least a few time per week.
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     Monetize your blog. The best tool for the blog monetization is the Google Adsense. Google Adsense displays ads on your blog that will make money for you when people click on them. It is also free to sign up for the Google Adsense: http://www.google.com/adsense/
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     Make it easy to subscribe for your blog RSS feed. RSS feed is the tool that has made the blogs different from ordinary sites. RSS let everybody who has subscribed know that your blog is updated.
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     Don't give up. Blogging is like any other businesses. It can be hard at the beginning and it doesn't make any money or makes very small amount of money at the first months but if you don't give up and keep on working, it will become your full time job.
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     Read and check other related blogs on a regular basis. For example the http://careerbuildertools.blogspot.com is my blog which is about working from home and internet marketing. You can see how I have created and promoted it. Please ask me if you have any question.

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What Career Are You Growing In Your "Life Garden"?

Today we celebrate “Prepare Your Life Garden Day”—a time to identify what we need to be doing right now to prepare our “career garden” and how we can make wiser choices when it comes to deciding what “seeds” to plant. 

And our guest expert to help us is Laurence Shatkin, PhD, author of Overnight Career Choice and a Senior Product Developer at JIST Publishing with 30 years of experience in the career information field.

Dr. Shatkin is an award-winning career information systems developer, a member of the National Career Development Association and a frequent presenter at their conferences, and is the author of the Career Laboratory blog.

“Change Coach” Nancy: What are some indications that you are in the wrong career?

Dr. Shatkin: The most obvious indication is if you dread Monday morning. Or perhaps you find yourself doing many things to avoid work, such as Facebook or water-cooler conversations. If you invent distractions that you don’t actually enjoy, such as tidying up your office, it’s a signal that you enjoy the work tasks even less. Of course, it’s possible that you enjoy the career, but it’s not paying enough or you expect to have trouble staying (or becoming) employed. That happened to me.

“Change Coach” Nancy: What are the key questions to ask yourself if you are considering making a career change?

Dr. Shatkin: First of all, why should this new career work out better than the old one? Specifically, what makes this career a better match for my skills and interests or more economically viable?

Do I have what it takes to succeed in the new career I’m considering? Specifically, do I have the appropriate educational or training credentials? 

If formal credentials are not needed, can I make the case (in a resume and interviews) that I have the skills that will be needed? 

What specific accomplishments can I point to (perhaps in a portfolio) that will convince employers that I will earn my salary?

“Change Coach” Nancy: Can you give some quick tips on how to assess your key skills and interests?

Dr. Shatkin: The fastest way to assess your skills is to divide a page into three columns and, in the leftmost column, list the jobs or work-related projects you’ve done. 

In the middle column, identify the tasks that were most important for success in these efforts. In the rightmost column, extract the skills that were needed for those tasks.

To identify your interests, think about activities you do that might tempt you to come to dinner a few minutes late. You may need to exercise some creativity to find ways to relate your interests to work situations.

“Change Coach” Nancy: Your book includes the nine most important components of an ideal job. What are they?

Dr. Shatkin: They are :

1. Skills and abilities
2. Interests
3. Personal values
4. Preferred earnings
5. Level of responsibility
6. Location
7. Special knowledge
8. Work environment
9. Types of people you like to work with and for

“Change Coach” Nancy: Your book discusses the connection between work values and motivators and career choice. Why is it important to understand that concept and factor it into a job decision?

Dr. Shatkin: Not every day on the job is payday. Work needs to have satisfactions that make you feel, at day’s end, “That was a good day at work.” We all have different ways of gauging this. For some of us, it’s the physical results of the work, such as a completed brick wall or a Web page design. For others, it’s the intangible results, such as a satisfied customer or an enlightened student.

Most people can name only one or two things they want from work besides money, but they will recognize the importance of other motivators once you suggest them. They may seek leadership, variety, independence, teamwork, creativity, flexible work hours, or many other aspects of work.

“Change Coach” Nancy: With unemployment so high and jobs in short supply, what advice do you have for job-seekers who are losing hope of ever finding the job that’s right for them?

Dr. Shatkin: In these hard times, you may not be able to work in the job that’s right for you. However, you can take steps to upgrade your skills for when the job market will be better. If you’re working now in a job that’s not a good fit, you may be able to concentrate on the few parts of the job that give you the greatest satisfaction and improve your ability to handle these aspects. It may also be possible to take on small tasks in another function where you see future career possibilities, such as management, sales, or training other workers.

If you’re not working, or in your leisure time, you may be able to do these tasks in a volunteer position. Either way, you will build your skills, test your satisfactions, and chalk up accomplishments, all of which can help you in your later career pursuits.

Many people who lose hope simply have not been using the right techniques for finding jobs. It’s more true than ever that most job openings are never advertised and are learned about through personal connections. You need to build a network of contacts and make cold calls about jobs.

Thanks, Dr. Shatkin, for your great career advice! As you pointed out, if we want a bountiful harvest (i.e., a career that brings us satisfaction), then we need to do the work that will help grow it!

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Making a Career Choice? Career Decision? What to do?

What should I do for the rest of my Life?

This is a scary question and so scary it should never be asked.

Most people will change careers 4-5 times in their life, so no matter where you are along the career continuum or where you are with your career choice, asking and thinking “rest of my Life” is not the Question to ask yourself. It is just too much to think about.


The question(s) should be,

What would I really like to do as work or a business?


What do I love to do?


What would be a career that I could see myself excited about each and everyday?



Too many times people get stuck in… I got to make money…and yes, this is very practical but, you need to have these thoughts in the context of ‘what do I you love to do.”

So how do you decide what you love to do? Ask yourself? Only you know the answer to that!!

Also you need to know your strengths. Knowing your strengths is essential. Usually you love what you are good at.


Know Your Strengths

Successful people are very aware of themselves, they know their strengths. Successful people believe they can achieve what they set out to do.

Knowing yourself, also referred to as Self Awareness, is essential to success in our lives. We need to know ourselves from the inside out.

You must develop a clear picture and understanding of your Strengths.

When you come to know and understand your strengths you can use them to help you succeed in life and work. You will have areas where you are not strong but the good news is that you can strengthen your least strong areas.

My newest career tool, Life Coaching Tool, Know Your Strengths & Succeed © is a self administered Personal Strengths Inventory based on Dr. Howard Gardener’s work on Multiple Intelligences.


Dr. Gardner named eight Intelligences that he believes all humans possess. His theory proposes that each and every one of us has these eight Intelligences at varying degrees of capacities.

These intelligences are our personal strengths that will, if recognized and used to the fullest, help us define success in work and life. Gardner’s theory also states that the intelligences in which we may not be strong can indeed be strengthened through practice.

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College Choice as the First Step for Students’ Career Planning

It may be argued that the career planning starts long before the students decide to choose a college. Most parents identify their child’s profession when they send them to different groups of interest. Nevertheless, having become older, students decide to appear before the choice which college to choose. This choice is rather responsible as students’ future depends on it. Here are some ideas on how the college choice may influence your future career.
Future career choice
1. Being interested in painting, students may choose any art or architectural college. It may sound strange, but those who are interested in painting and other types of art may become great designers in different fields of human life.
2. Choosing the chemistry college, students should be sure that the profession of pharmaceutist is the one which you are eager to receive. Planning to become a great chemist, a student should choose the place he/she is going to work at.
3. Mathematics alternative is one of the widest field students may have. There are great many professions students may choose after graduating form the college with mathematics direction, namely mathematician (theory or practice), statistician, technician, actuary, engineer, and great many of other occupations are opened for those who want to study mathematics.
4. Being interested in physics, students can also be sure to find their place in the world.
5. Being interested in labor or physical training, most students consider the professions connected with those as inappropriate for the modern society, thus, it is not true.
It may be concluded that students are free to choose the college alternative they want. Still, they are to remember that the choice they make is sure to influence the profession they will have to devote their entire life to. It is crucial to be sure in the choice students make. Students should think over all the alternatives and only after significant consideration come to the conclusion whether the college they have chosen meets their occupation requirements or it is better to change mind when it is not too late.


About the Author
Alvin Hanson is an professional researcher and writer who works for professional custom writing service. He is always eager to share his experience in essay writing and provide high quality custom essay writing to students.

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The Impact of Career Advice Towards Home Based Business

Several aspiring businessmen nowadays are trying their best to excel in the marketing world. Some of them have even managed to obtain a business degree even though they have already acquired a certain degree from college. They are thinking that it is the most sufficient way for them to become successful in life. However studies shows that a business degree is not the only way for a person to succeed when it comes to business. A career advice can be as rewarding as a business degree.
Career advice is often given by professional individuals in their own respective fields. They usually give plenty of advice to those who choose to consult their own perspectives or point of views in a certain topic or scenario. They mostly base their ideas on the experiences that they gain from school and even from their own work.
However there is also an effective way to solve their problems without having a degree from a business course. Free Career Test is one of the best methods used to orient or inform a person about the possible results of his or her plans. It is very much advisable to have this kind of consultation because it will become certain with your decisions.
Using this type of method you will be then aware with the different aspects of the business world. It is very much helpful for those who are still planning to conquer the business industry because it will determine if they are already capable to raise and run a business or not. It can surely assure the future of a certain businessman. It is even often used by those who are still having problems when it comes to their career.
Often times it is very much important to know what you really want. You must be clear with your objectives and your goals as well. Most of the business psychology people nowadays recommend their clients to take a Free Career Test to evaluate their current strengths and weaknesses when it comes to business. It will allow them to identify the innate skills of their clients. They can also give their clients suggestions about the suitable career for them.
Career assessment test is very important and essential for the success of a person especially if he or she is not yet quite sure about his or her ambition in life. When this type of test is coupled with a career advice from an expert in the business industry it will surely result into a positive one.
There are different forms of career advice. Most of the experts of this type of field suggest their clients to try setting up their own small scaled business or even home based business. They believe that it is good for their clients to experience and learn the basic concept of marketing. It will then determine their interest in business if they manage to improve or develop their home based business. Since most of the people nowadays are looking for an extra income it would be good for them to understand its basic principles first before jumping into competitive and risky world of business industry.

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