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!
- Decide to start a blog
- Look at blogs online obsessively
- Brainstorm catchy blog names
- Plan your entire blog, in your head
- Read all you can on problogger.com
- Read about the money bloggers make
- Ask your friends and family if they think you’d be a good blogger
- Google top bloggers income
- Think about the type of blog you want to make
- Read about targeted blog niches
- Read about hosting and SEO
- Get confused
- Begin to doubt your idea
- Wait a few months
- Visit a blog you really enjoy reading
- Decide to start a blog
- Read about the benefits of blogger vs wordpress
- Get discouraged
- Ask your best friend to start a blog with you
- Send your friend all the “research” you’ve done
- Go out to dinner with your friend to discuss your future blog
- Talk about lots of great ideas
- Write none of them down
- Get excited
- Create a joint Pinterest board for ideas and inspiration
- Pin cute outfits and food you’ll never make
- Get annoyed with what your friend is pinning
- Doubt your blogging partnership
- Forget about blogging for a few months
- Get a funny Huffpo blog post in your inbox
- See a blogger doing a segment on a morning TV show
- Think: “OMG, that could be me!”
- Decide to start a blog
- Decide to start a fashion blog
- No. Decide to start a beauty blog
- Wait a few months
- Decide to start a lifestyle blog
- Brainstorm catchy lifestyle blog names
- Read about lifestyle blogging
- Follow popular lifestyle bloggers on Pinterest
- Follow popular lifestyle bloggers on Instagram
- Read about social media strategy management
- Read about keyword generation and backlinking
- Get overwhelmed
- Read a personal development book on overwhelm and procrastination
- Make a plan to stop procrastinating
- Read a personal development book on motivation
- Decide to start a lifestyle blog
- Plan the topic categories… in your head
- Wonder if your life is interesting enough for a blog
- Get a Bloglovin account and follow all the lifestyle blogs you can find
- Admire the beautiful photos on the blogs
- Realize you need a better camera.
- Research DSLR cameras
- Remember you can’t afford a good DSLR right now
- Decide to use your smartphone “just for now”
- Worry that your photos won’t be good enough
- Doubt your blog will be successful
- Wait a few months
- Randomly come across your old joint Pinterest board with blog ideas
- Decide to start a lifestyle blog
- Read about the business of blogging
- Realize you need a business coach
- Research business coaches
- Remember coaching is out of your budget
- Decide to find your “coaching” free online
- Read business coach blogs
- Wonder if you should become a coach instead of a blogger
- Read What Color is Your Parachute
- Wait a few months
- Receive an email from your friend announcing her new fashion blog
- Visit her blog and pick it apart critically
- Concede and realize how awesome it actually is.
- Cry
- Hate your friend
- Decide to start a better fashion blog than your friend
- Look in your closet for outfits to post about
- Realize your wardrobe sucks
- Go shopping
- Worry about money
- Wonder if it’s really worth it
- Google pros and cons of being a blogger
- Focus on the cons
- Wait a few months
- Get bored with life
- Decide you need a creative outlet
- Read books on creative outlets
- Try painting
- Suck at painting
- Decide to start a blog
- Read books on blogging
- Learn that “content is king”
- Take a creative writing class
- Doubt yourself thoroughly
- Decide you need a break
- Go on vacation
- Wonder what you should do with your life
- Decide to start a blog
- Create Free Blog on Blogger or WordPress
- 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.
LOL Dead at 74 cry 75 Hate your friend…. soooo funny
Originally I only did YT and my friend was gonna blog. Well she never started hers and I ran with it because I actually had the niche of what I was already discussing on my channel. It only made sense. Great post!
Thanks glad you like it. YAY for you starting despite your friend fizzling out! What’s your YT channel?
Yeah I was going back and forth with the blog and she motivated me to up and do it. The channel name is Kay’s Ways but the url is youtube.com/bride2bt
Thanks for asking!!! (How cool is it that my video popped up underneath lol)
How many times was I supposed to “Decide to write a blog”? Lol! I really enjoyed this post! The camera thing is so true tho. I’m at that point now. Lol! Good read!
Glad you enjoyed the post. What camera are you going to end up getting?
I decided on the Canon ELPH 340. I saw a lot of good reviews including live reviews with vloggers/blogger using it and the video quality was very nice. Loads better than my phone/iPad cameras. :/
Great post and I love how you insert your sense of humor (#78). We’ve shared your post on http://www.BLMGirls.com
Thanks for sharing it on blmgirls!!! Glad you liked the post. Did you follow any of the steps?
Lol this was cute!
Thanks! Glad you think so, did any of the steps apply to you?
I found myself all over this post!! Awesome and so very real!
Too funny
I absolutely loved this. Funny and so true.