How to Start A Blog in 100 Easy Steps

I love being a blogger! (You already know.) The number one question I get asked about blogging is by far “How do I start?” Everyone wants to know how to start a blog, make a successful blog, earn a living through blogging…etc. So here’s your answer.  Here is how to start a blog in 100 easy steps!

1. Decide to start a blog
2. Look at blogs online obsessively
3. Brainstorm catchy blog names
4. Plan your entire blog, in your head
5. Read all you can on problogger.com
6. Read about the money bloggers make
7. Ask your friends and family if they think you’d be a good blogger
8. Google top bloggers income
9. Think about the type of blog you want to make
10. Read about targeted blog niches
11. Read about hosting and SEO
12. Get confused
13. Begin to doubt your idea
14. Wait a few months
15. Visit a blog you really enjoy reading
16. Decide to start a blog
17. Read about the benefits of blogger vs wordpress
18. Get discouraged
19. Ask your best friend to start a blog with you
20. Send your friend all the “research” you’ve done
21. Go out to dinner with your friend to discuss your future blog
22. Talk about lots of great ideas
23. Write none of them down
24. Get excited
25. Create a joint Pinterest board for ideas and inspiration
26. Pin cute outfits and food you’ll never make
27. Get annoyed with what your friend is pinning
28. Doubt your blogging partnership
29. Forget about blogging for a few months
30. Get a funny Huffpo blog post in your inbox
31. See a blogger doing a segment on a morning TV show
32. Think: “OMG, that could be me!”
33. Decide to start a blog
34. Decide to start a fashion blog
35. No. Decide to start a beauty blog
36. Wait a few months
37. Decide to start a lifestyle blog
38. Brainstorm catchy lifestyle blog names
39. Read about lifestyle blogging
40. Follow popular lifestyle bloggers on Pinterest
41. Follow popular lifestyle bloggers on Instagram
42. Read about social media strategy management
43. Read about keyword generation and backlinking
44. Get overwhelmed
45. Read a personal development book on overwhelm and procrastination
46. Make a plan to stop procrastinating
47. Read a personal development book on motivation
48. Decide to start a lifestyle blog
49. Plan the topic categories… in your head
50. Wonder if your life is interesting enough for a blog
51. Get a Bloglovin account and follow all the lifestyle blogs you can find
52. Admire the beautiful photos on the blogs
53. Realize you need a better camera.
54. Research DSLR cameras
55. Remember you can’t afford a good DSLR right now
56. Decide to use your smartphone “just for now”
57. Worry that your photos won’t be good enough
58. Doubt your blog will be successful
59. Wait a few months
60. Randomly come across your old joint Pinterest board with blog ideas
61. Decide to start a lifestyle blog
62. Read about the business of blogging
63. Realize you need a business coach
64. Research business coaches
65. Remember coaching is out of your budget
66. Decide to find your “coaching” free online
67. Read business coach blogs
68. Wonder if you should become a coach instead of a blogger
69. Read What Color is Your Parachute
70. Wait a few months
71. Receive an email from your friend announcing her new fashion blog
72. Visit her blog and pick it apart critically
73. Concede and realize how awesome it actually is.
74. Cry
75. Hate your friend
76. Decide to start a better fashion blog than your friend
77. Look in your closet for outfits to post about
78. Realize your wardrobe sucks
79. Go shopping
80. Worry about money
81. Wonder if it’s really worth it
82. Google pros and cons of being a blogger
83. Focus on the cons
84. Wait a few months
85. Get bored with life
86. Decide you need a creative outlet
87. Read books on creative outlets
88. Try painting
89. Suck at painting
90. Decide to start a blog
91. Read books on blogging
92. Learn that “content is king”
93. Take a creative writing class
94. Doubt yourself thoroughly
95. Decide you need a break
96. Go on vacation
97. Wonder what you should do with your life
98. Decide to start a blog
99. Create Free Blog on Blogger or WordPress
100. Start Writing.

I hope you find this list helpful.

Good luck with your blog!!

PS: If these 100 easy steps feel overwhelming, just start at #99.