The hardships behind famous blogs: Writing 16 hours a day

Lead : Beijing time July 9, CNET British editor Michael Parsons (Michael Parsons) wrote today that it is difficult to become a successful blogger, but like TechCrunch founder Michael Al Arlington (Michael Arrington) In that way, making money through blogging is even more difficult.

With the growing popularity of blogs, many people have moved to make money by blogging ideas. However, it is not easy to achieve this goal, and a great deal of effort is needed, a process that is like a hand-to-hand in the writing world. In a sense, good blogs work as hard as dogs. You can't get a lot of readers if you can't stand out in many blogs. On the other hand, it's not easy to keep your readership, because the internet is never closed, and new people emerge every moment.

For this reason, Arlington starts to work at his desk after 10 minutes of waking up every morning, and then he almost writes all day long. He sometimes went to the Silicon Valley to attend a party to get more industry news by chatting. But he will soon be back home and put into writing again. In his blog, Arlington says he has been working almost every day for the past two years. In fact, most successful bloggers live on a 3.1-line life: eating, sleeping and working, not having time to go out and take vacations. In Arlington, for example, he works seven days a week and works 16 hours a day.

To be a successful blogger, you not only need to devote a lot of attention and energy to text content, you must also refine your point of view and draw attention to it, you need to be extremely self, high profile, not afraid of abuse and attack, you also need to work hard, frequent updates to attract readers to visit your blog again. And to become a successful blogger like Arlington, you also need to have a huge circle of contacts to make sure that the information you get is accurate and that you have a fight with the traditional media. There is no doubt that it is not easy to do any of these.

Arlington hopes to further expand its blog by joining other people's blogs and eventually develop it into a media empire. Admittedly, this is a huge challenge for him. Blogging is a performing art, just like magic. Many people are good at magic, but have someone managed to manage a group of magicians successfully? If Arlington attracts a blog that is as good as he is, they will soon be on their own, and if they are inferior to Arlington, why do readers read their blogs? On the other hand, it is often a problem to bring some maverick talents together. If the Arlington team often has personal conflicts, does he still have time to write? After all, a man can't do all the things.

Of course, there are a number of savvy entrepreneurs who have found ways to make good blogs co-exist and complement each other, creating multiple successful blogging networks. Perhaps Arlington also has excellent management skills and achieves its goals.