Have you ever hear people saying try and try harder until you succeed. Well lets say you do succeed, then what? Or how about you are a complete failure then what? Should you keep going? I hate people who tell me Syed, try harder and you will do better. It might work in some cases, but in other cases it is a waste of time.

In this post, I will tell you that blogs are not suppose to last forever. There are blogs of all sort of subjects and niches. When you start a blog, you must create a work plan. How do you want to see this blog in three months, six months, year, and two years. You must always set a deadline during this plan. So I will stop blogging after two years of its launch. Ofcourse you don’t have to stick with this deadline because you analyze it later on the time.

So you have a very successful blog that is earning you over 10k a month. You love writing on it, and you are happy with the audience and attention you are getting. After two years when you were suppose to stop blogging, you don’t have to. Instead make a new plan that sees your goal and make another deadline. If for some case, you don’t reach your goals, and it turned out to be an extreme failure, then you know that it is time to stop and move on.

Specially when you are on a very specific niche. Lets say you wanted to make a cooking blog. You have 90 recipes to share. Well then you post once every 4 days with a good recipe, all the delicious looking pictures, maybe videos and so on. But after you are done with your recipes, you can stop blogging. Leave this blog be online, so you have user interaction, but your goal was done. Think of it as a book, you can’t keep going on and on in a book. You have to end your story some where.

Not all blogs are suppose to last forever. There is always a deadline. Even very popular blogs stops publishing content. Reason is that blogging takes a lot of time. When you are writing for a mass audience, you want to make sure that you write well. You want to make sure that you give them the absolute best article. Which can potentially distract you from other project of yours. So a deadline is always necessary.

Now there is nothing wrong with being a quitter. Because it doesn’t make a you a loser. It makes you a loser, if you quit without starting. As long as you tried your hardest, then don’t consider that attempt as a failure. It was just an attempt that didn’t work.

When you don’t have any more content to write, or if you think that the content you are writing is not worthy enough, then you should re-evaluate your plans again. You can even take the whole blog down once your goal is done. Not all blogs are started or run solely for monetary purposes. People have motives behind their blogs also. So follow your dreams, but remember dreams can be altered, or changed in anyway that you want to. Because your imagination can come up with infinite possibilies. So if one dream fails, there is no need to waste more time to drag this failed attempt. Instead think of something else.

As a blogger, you are often conscious about how well you are doing. You might even ask your readers for their feedback on your writing. You are too worried that you would suck at blogging because this is something new that you have started, and you are not a good writer. Welcome to my world when I first started blogging. I am going to tell you that this is not something unusual. New bloggers often feel this way because they want to make everything right. Now, I am going to tell you to stop worrying. Put your worries aside, and START SOMETHING.

People are so hesitant to be embarrassed on the web because of their writing, they don’t even start. So the first thing you need to do is start because you can always learn from your mistakes later. You might not be a good writer, but you can be a good blogger! So DON’T GIVE UP.

I was always told when I was reading a lot of blogging books, that a lot of famous bloggers are good writers. But there are a few that are not good writers, but they are famous bloggers. I always wonder if it is true to be a good writer. Then I realized NO, you don’t. As a matter of fact you don’t have to be a writer at all to blog. You can not have passed the 8th grade Writing Class and still be a great blogger. Because does not limit your possibilities. You can video blog, or have your own podcasts. But even if you want to write, I say you don’t have to be a good writer. You just need to be smart and make the right decisions.

Choose The Topic Which Interests You The Most

You will run out of things to write about if you have no interest in the topic. For instance, I might start a cooking blog. I have no interest in cooking what so ever, but I think that is where I will make tons of money. NOPE. Wrong Choice. Never start something with the sole interest of making money because you won’t make any money. You might think it is a Cliche saying, but it is true.

So find something that you can talk about all day long and not be tired of. A topic that if your friends remember it, they remember it because of you. You annoy the hell out of them when you talk about this topic, because you talk too much about this particular topic. If you are not sure what this topic might be, ask your friends. Trust me, they will tell you because you annoy the crap out of their life with this topic.

Find a topic that is not limiting. Find something that keeps growing. I think all topics can grow, it depends on one’s imagination, but there are some topics that are too limited. You get limited when you go too specific. So try to stay a little general. What I am trying to say is don’t pick the most general category, and don’t pick the most specific category. Stay in the middle grounds. So for example, you can write about Internet, Web Development, Developing horizontal navigations. I would say stick with web development because it give you more room to write about just in case if you run out of topics.

Don’t Try to Be Some One That You Are Not

Don’t try to be some wise person if you are not. Don’t try to be a good writer if you are not. Don’t use big words, if you don’t use them. You know why? Because you will screw up. Your writing lose your personality because you are not being you. You are trying to be some one else that you are not. The best quality in writing is personality. YOUR VOICE. Which diminishes in big words because that is not your style. If your style is YO Homies, Wud up, then write like that. Trust me people are not here to grade you on your grammar. They are here to enjoy good content.

I can tell you that one can provide good content without having good grammar, or big words. I can be interesting without being confusing. I can entertain my audience with my words. By making silly jokes in my posts, by sounding funny with the choice of my words, and so much on. Remember that your audience come to your blog to be entertained. To get a unique view. Give them that. Hey if they learn something from it. YAY for both of us, but that is not my main point. I want to provide my audience with a unique view that is entertaining at the same time useful to them.

So BE YOURSELF. Same thing if you are video blogging. You don’t have to dress up in a dress shirt and a pant. Simply pop out with your blings on if thats who you really are. People would appreciate it because you are being YOU.

Why You Should Worry?

Market Leverage is holding a bowling event to support Childhood Alzheimer. Market Leverage is helping raise funds for the sons of one of their employee. Brisan and Parker Stult have been diagnosed with this fatal disease with no cure.

They have been prescribed the medications that help extend their lives at an annual cost of $190,000 a year. So MarketLeverage has stepped up in a big way with all of the proceeds of the Bowl-A-Thon going to Niemann-Pick Children’s Fund in honor of Parker and Brisan Stults.

So if you live in Florida, specially in the Orlando area don’t miss this opportunity away. You can do something for a great cause as well as network with your fellow webmasters in the area. The cost is only $25 to bowl your night away. Their will be door prizes, and free t-shirts.

If you are not in Florida and still want to help. Well then you can still help out by sponsoring the event, for as little as 10 cents per pin. For more information please contact Dina at 407-268-7667 or dina [at] MarketLeverage [dot] com.

If you would like you can simply donate to Brisan and Parker. Your donations will be most appreciated and help with research and grants that will eventually lead to a cure for this horrible disease.

I know when I went to Market Leverage office, Dina, Rebecca, and I were playing bowling on Nintendo Wii and I was telling her how they should organize an event in Orlando area. A bowling event. Well, this fulfills my wish and it is an awesome event of networking for a great cause.

Kudoos to Dina and Market Leverage for putting on this great event!

Location / Timing

Airport Lanes
190 E. Airport Blvd. Sanford, FL, 32773

Tuesday March 31st from 7 pm to 9 pm

$25 entry fee per bowler.

I will try my best to be there

Have you heard a buzz in the market. Well no then here it is for you. Friends of mine at Unique Blog Designs have launched their super affiliate theme for affiliate marketers like you and me. I usually do not write about other designers or other designer’s products on this blog because I, myself am a designer. So when I write about something here, then it means I am impressed.

Recently, I saw multiple blogs on the web writing about UBD’s theme, so at first I ignored it because the last premium theme they released, Citrus theme was crap. I didn’t like the looks of it, didn’t like the organization. But this time they really impressed me. They came out with the ultimate solution for affiliate marketers. We work hard on creating landing pages. Customizing it and it eats up a lot of our time. I don’t know about you, but time is important to me. And this is exactly what Affiliate Theme does. It uses Wordpress as a platform to make your landing page. It lets you customize the theme, change headers, fonts style/size/color and so much more. I just don’t know how much I can write about this theme.

I will let the video explain it to you guys.

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I got this shirt a while ago but I got around to posting this today. Good people at Market Leverage sent me this cool shirt. We all know about their I’m Blogging This shirt that they gave out to a lot of bloggers at many conferences and their mails. John Chow even wore it at Izea Conference Last year.

Well they sent me another one which is branded with my site. It says Balkhis is Blogging This. Isn’t that so cool. I wore it today and will be wearing it all day. I think this is the coolest idea of branding that anyone could think of. They have their logo in the back and the front, but it have my site’s name. Why not. Thanks Market Leverage.