Blogging can open a lot of opportunities that you would not have had without your blog, and it can be very rewarding to be able to help people in the comfort of your own home. Everyone is starting a blog or YouTube channel these days because people don’t truly understand what it takes to build a successful brand and wrongly believe that content creators work five minutes and become filthy rich in two months. Some people start blogs because they are lazy, and think it’s easy and never have to work, but if that were true, everyone would do it. I love blogging and would continue doing it if my blog never made money, but if you want to make a lot of money quickly, you are better off getting a real job because it is one of the hardest ways to make money. There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes of a blog that people don’t talk about because, despite what people believe, most people don’t become overnight successes. In this post, I am going to talk about the realities of blogging that people don’t always talk about.
It can take years for your blog to take off- I hate articles with titles that say “How to get ten-thousand views in two months” because it makes people believe that you can create a successful blog in a very short period of time when, in reality, most people do not become overnight successes. New bloggers sometimes get frustrated with low stats in the beginning because these articles say you are supposed to have thousands of views in three months, but what they aren’t telling you is that it can take years of consistency to see significant growth. I didn’t get any opportunities or see any significant growth in my previous blog until I had been doing it consistently for two years. Some people become overnight successes, but most people don’t, and sometimes it takes years to build a decent blog following. Stay consistent and be patient and you will eventually get to where you want to be.
Not everyone is going to like you– Every blogger wants people to love every post, and most people probably will, but not everyone is going to love your content, and that is okay. Trolls do exist and sometimes people will be mean to you for absolutely no reason and will trash a post that you are proud of and spent hours working on just because they can. Blogging helps you build a thick skin because you can’t stop trolls and have to learn how to let these comments go. Some bloggers get more trolls than others, but people don’t talk about how many rude comments you get a content creator. Some people will love your work, others won’t, and that is okay because you shouldn’t try to please everyone. It is impossible to make everyone happy, and it’s so important to focus on creating content for people who do love to read your posts. Some people aren’t going to disagree with some posts, and that is okay, but that doesn’t change my opinion because you are entitled to your own opinion. I am not here to tell people what I think they want to hear, and I am here to tell them what they need to hear!
Some days you aren’t going to want to create- I love creating blog posts for my readers because if I didn’t, I would be a blogger, but you can love it and not want to blog 24/7/. Some days I wake up and can’t wait to start writing, while other days I am tired and it takes me half the day to motivate myself to do something productive. There is nothing wrong with taking days off if you aren’t feeling well, but sometimes you don’t have that choice and have something time-sensitive and have to work. Some days you will feel extra inspired, other days you won’t because content creation can be mentally exhausting, and sometimes you don’t want to do it. In the beginning, you have a lot of motivation, but as time goes on and it becomes more difficult to come up with fresh ideas, you will start to lose motivation.
You have to work a lot– People often think that bloggers or content creators in general work ten minutes a day and build successful brands, but that is so far from true. Many content creators who make a lot of money spend hours a day creating content because, despite what people believe, you have to work a lot to grow online. I don’t write blog posts every single day, but I do something with my blog on a daily basis, even on weekends, because you can’t grow online and never work. My disability makes it harder for me to grow online because people are ableist, and I don’t have any employees to do work for me, so I have to work twice as hard. I sometimes will take off holidays, but for the most part, I am working seven days a week because you don’t get days off as a content creator. I wish people could see how much time and effort go into building a blog because it’s frustrating when people think that what I do takes no skill.
Sometimes you will doubt yourself- There are so many blogs online, and some people are more experienced than others. As a new blogger, it is easy to get online and start comparing yourself to others, and I think we all have done it. When I was a new blogger, I fell into the trap of comparing myself to others who were more experienced than me and oftentimes would doubt myself. You will have days when you feel confident in your work and days when you read a post from another creator who is a much better writer than you and will doubt yourself. No one talks about all the times you doubt yourself as a creator because when there is so much content online, it’s easy to fall into the comparison trap. You don’t have to be the best writer on the Internet to be successful because everyone can provide a different perspective.
Blogging can be very rewarding, but it can take a very long time to grow because there is more to building a successful blog than writing blog posts, and you should never expect an overnight success. It takes time to build a successful blog and it’s normal if things get off to a slow start because no one becomes an expert on day one. It takes a lot of time and effort to get good at blogging, and your first post is probably going to make you cringe a year from now. Building a brand online is a lot harder than some influencers want you to believe and it’s okay if you don’t have everything figured out because I have been blogging for almost eight years, and there are still things I struggle with. There is always more to building a blog than what is posted and even though someone makes something look easy, that doesn’t mean it is. What realities of blogging do you wish people knew? If you liked this post, please leave a comment below and share it with your friends.
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