Become a Blogger – A Roadmap for the Beginning Blogger
December 3, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey is at it again with yet another blogging project. After relaunching his Blog Mastermind course a couple months back, he has teamed up with a guy named Gideon Shalwick to start up Become a Blogger, a site that offers “free tutorials to create your own blog”. There are 10 free videos on there that describe in detail how you can set up your first blog – from configuring Wordpress to utilizing RSS feeds. If you’re a beginner and don’t have a blog yet, this site is a good place to get started.
Yaro and Gideon also offer a free 72 page report called “The Roadmap To Become A Blogger”. This document goes into greater depth about how to achieve blogging success by utilizing “X-factors”, the special techniques that differentiate the successful blogs. Furthermore, the roadmap separates the blogging journey into 5 milestones: discover your passion, discover the need, test your market, focus your efforts, and start making money. The report is worth checking out, even if you’re a more experienced blogger. Download it at Become a Blogger.
Of course, all of this free stuff comes in preparation of a premium coaching program that is set to launch on Thursday December 4, 2008 at 4pm. The price point is supposed to be low, so it may be a useful resource for beginners.
How is Become a Blogger different from Yaro’s Blog Mastermind? Become a Blogger uses much more video and tutorials rather than plain text. Video as a learning platform is tough to beat and coupled with Yaro’s expertise, this program is sure to be a hit. I enjoyed Blog Mastermind, but Become a Blogger should be even better – especially for newbies.
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I am busy with this process at present, and all insight and input is truly appreciated. WordPress rocks, and the community around it makes it even more awesome. Tough act to follow, how does Drupal compare?
Hands down, I’d go with Wordpress.
Those do sound like useful resources for start up blogs. And I agree that wordpress is the best at this time.
Yaro was the first blog I ever read! He has grown it a lot since then
Yeah, Yaro does incredibly well for himself. He actually makes more from teaching about blogging than from actually blogging itself. Ironic, eh?
Thanks for these “become a blogger” resources Gyutae, I haven’t been here a while, been very busy with work my SEO business is really starting to take off nicely now.
In the new year I would like to start my first blog and maybe even a small forum aswell!
I will have a look at the roadmap to become a blogger, looks like will be a good and helpful read.
Congrats on the good business, Stuart! Glad to hear that everything is going well for you. Are you looking to start your blog/forum in the SEO niche? If so, I can probably help you learn the ropes and give you tips on what works and what doesn’t.
I actually checked out the free basic videos. They’re pretty good for beginners.
Thank’s for letting us know, I haven’t yet but definately will check them out.
Hmm.. read this on a couple of blogs.. how useful is it actually?
very useful
I have downloaded and it is worth its weight in gold. I strongly recommend other beginners to do the same.
This report is amazing, the best free report available online for blogging
Great report. .. and it`s free o_0
Thanks
Many thanks for the link. Will download and have a good read, and try and take in everything!
Great tips man. This will be really helpful for me to gather traffic. I am subscribing to your posts right away.
the key to any blog is to love writing about your topic, if you are in it for any other reason it is unsustainable
Definitely agree with you here. For more on how to choose the right topic for your blog, see my article here: http://www.winningtheweb.com/find-perfect-topic-blog.php
I think an issue with many blogs is that the author is in it for the wrong reasons. If you truly enjoy the topic you are writing about and not only that, but put in the effort to write compelling material then it is almost hard not to be successful.
I am still looking for the right way how to write blog. I have some different blogs with very different topics and also different languages. That’s why I made my own website (www ismabera com), where I write only general information and than link to my blogs. Note : ismabera.com is still ‘under construction’.
Few months ago I began to use great free tool – www zemanta com. I think any blogger should check this product. At this moment zemanta is working only for english language, but authors promised to include some other languages, like spanish, portugues and slovenian as soon as possible.
I wish everybody MARRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009