Focusing mainly on helping people – and not predominantly what you are getting – is the key to being prolific.
This is my 500th guest post on Blogging Tips.
Halfway to 1K.
I recall a few years ago. Someone asked me why in the heck I’d publish 100 guest posts on one site, when I hit the century mark on Blogging Tips.
My answer: why not?
I like helping people. Zac offered me this awesome opportunity to help people blog. I ran with it.
The person asking me the question harbored many fears. Fears common to most bloggers, none of whom are prolific and many of whom struggle with their blogs.
Here are a few of the fears:
- creating too many guest posts on one site hurts your blog SEO and search engine rank (spread out guesties among multiple top sites in your niche)
- creating too many guest posts on one site causes you to miss opportunities on other sites (new customers, clients, readers)
- creating too many guest posts on one site pulls you away from your own blog; the center of your online universe
Like all fears:
- none of these fears is true
- “too many guest posts” doesn’t exist in a universe of abundance
- each of these fears is based on how you can serve yourself, versus serving other people
Note; hurts YOUR blog SEO and search engine rank, causes you to miss YOUR opportunities, pulls you away from YOUR blog.
See where we are headed?
If you only think about how you can help you all day long, you are screwed, big time.
Nobody likes a selfish blogger. Selfish bloggers are so busy helping themselves, how in the hades can they help their readers?
A Different Approach
Base your blogging campaign on how you can help other people without expecting anything in return.
This is the secret to being prolific and a highly success blogger.
Focusing on giving. Not getting.
The getting – aka traffic and money and business – becomes much easier when you devote 95% of your energy to giving/serving/helping without worrying about what you are getting.
Seriously guys; do you know anyone who has guest posted 500 times on one blog? Maybe a few folks of course but not many. Most of us are so caught up in ourselves that we forget to help other people. Or we see some success, smile, feel like we’ve made it, or that we are comfortable, and we are done.
Every day for at least a year, I decided to write and publish a guest post here because I had fun helping people. I didn’t think about any traffic, readers, subscribers or profits I’d send to Blogging From Paradise through these guest posts.
Honest.
I write these guest posts mainly to help people because I love helping people.
My friend Alonzo Pichardo and I will record our next podcast in a few minutes.
Our first two online success chats have registered 90,000 listens.
We each patiently built our friend networks over years. We served without expecting anything in return. We turned our expectations into appreciation, as Tony Robbins stresses through his quote.
Our prime intent was to help folks with these chats. Nothing else.
In a little over 2 months we are reaching a large audience of people who want to build successful businesses online because we focus on giving predominantly, not getting.
Your Next Step
If you want to become prolific, give without focusing on what you’re getting.
We are all building blogging businesses; a part of you wants to get.
Open income streams. Render premium products and services.
Just focus mainly on helping people without trying to squeeze anything out of each interaction or creation.
Feel your fear of loss, or fear of running out of time, or fear of not making enough money, because these fears arise when you release expectations for the first time.
Become prolific.
Help people.
Rock out your blogging business.