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Positively Positive boasts world famous icons as contributors, like billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, marketing genius Seth Godin, and blogging island hopper Ryan Biddulph. Joking, of course. I have a ways to go to be as well known as Mark and Seth. But the staff at Pos Pos saw enough, talent, vision and drive in me to bless me with a coveted contributor account, for which I feel grateful.
Every single Positively Positive contributor is genuine, honest, authentic and heart-centered. Being a happy, respected, renowned entrepreneur requires you to be true to you.
Unfortunately, many bloggers build their entire blogging campaign not on being genuine, truthful and authentic, but on statistics, chasing popularity. Look at the average blog post; a blogger learned from a fellow non-genuine blogger how writing a list style or how to post results in big traffic numbers. Zero thought goes into:
- adding your personal experiences to the post
- writing in your authentic, one of a kind, heart felt voice
- being honest in sharing wins and losses, successes and struggles, dreams and dread
- connecting to your reader’s hearts, versus trying to squeeze something out of them
so the post is boring and bland, at best, and a pure stinker, at worst.
Most bloggers publish lame content because most bloggers build their entire campaign on trying to be popular, chasing stats and trying to get people to give them money through the art of manipulation, persuasion and coercion. Nothing genuine about any of those drivers.
Meanwhile, genuine, honest bloggers who solve problems in authentic, compassionate fashion, land contributor gigs alongside world famous celebrities, for a 2.5 million member blog community, like I did. Genuine bloggers become popular because genuine bloggers never try to become popular. Genuine bloggers focus on helping humans, not getting numbers, by chasing stats.
Donna Merrill and Alonzo Pichardo are both as genuine as they come. Each became successful by being generous, helpful and honest. Neither puts much weight at all in numbers or stats. Ditto for James Bartram and Rahul Kuntala; both are successful, genuine bloggers focused on serving people in a compassionate, generous, honest way.
I just sold another paperback. I feel incredibly grateful, but for me, it is never about the sale itself (sales numbers) but the service I render through free and premium content. People are my focus; not numbers. Keeps me genuine, generous and focused on what matters most.
Use Numbers as Guides Not the End Goal
See stats as a guide; not the end goal.
Example; someone advises how list style posts tend to generate more traffic. Great. You publish a list style post, sharing your experiences, focusing on serving readers, deeply connecting to their needs, and solving their problems. Post complete. You hit the mark because you listened to your readers and blog from a genuine, generous, heart felt energy. I rarely if ever check stats because my genuine energy guarantees my success, as surely as the night follows the day.
Look where I have been featured while barely checking stats.
Numbers on a screen didn’t make these features happen. People did. I genuinely helped people. I expected little or nothing. Top bloggers befriended me, promoted me and helped me pop up on the radar screen, so contributors from world famous brands wanted to feature me.
When you are genuine, honest and generous, you become the hunted. I never pitched anybody from these brands. Contributors pitched me, I shared my thoughts and received a platform for helping more folks.
Doesn’t that sound more fun than chasing numbers on a screen?
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