So You Wanna Be A Blogger?
- Kisha No E
- Jan 11
- 4 min read
So you wanna be blogger eh? Well first of all, I'm clearly showing my age because blogger has evolved into content creator and influencer, lol. I'm still a dinosaur becuz I still believe in READING blogs and magazines but I also believe in still managing a print in the blogosphere with an evergreen of your own page and VOILA-I'm here. This is easier for me becuz I have a love for creative writing but I get it, the average person doesn't have the attention span to read and we are more visual than anything. I tend to get these inquiries sparingly over the years of "HOW to get started" and what this space entails. Here we go...
Let me start off by disappointing you-this is NOT a masterclass, lol. I honestly wasn't ready to engage this subject but after sipping my coffee for the morning and recognizing I wanna drop a post, it was put on my heart after I received a message last week on some insight to get them started. Now although I'm not sitting in front of a camera with a gazillion followers and brand deals, I can give you a good one two step from what I've learned. Let's start with the basics.
Who are you? Why should I know you? How do I know you? What is your content? What is your brand? Do you have a niche? Who is your audience? What message are you conveying? What is the goal? Do you have a goal? You just want free products or do you want collabs...do you just want attention? Like what are you doing and WHY?
The thing is...you may or may not have the answer to these questions. Alot of times as you craft and start doing content it'll come to you. The answers will reveal themselves by just DOING. I think people spend too much time on trying to figure themselves out instead of just DOING. Why? Becuz we are too involved and overthinking of what we already see. OMG what am I going to wear? What am I going to say? This doesn't look right. I need to clean this up. The background, the this, the that...like stop it.
People want PEOPLE!!
We want honest and less polished. We wanna connect with you as a person. How can we relate to each other and share in that connection? You gonna need to recognize you are NOT for everyone and that is ok. Do you even have a million friends in real life? and if you do, how do you manage trying to fit in for ALL of them to like you at once? I can't even imagine, lol.
The new wave (trend) is going to be more of communities and less scrolling. Folks is going OUTSIDE yall, That means it'll be more living in the moment and spending time with people you connect with where everything isn't so curated and fully documented. Intimate sessions with REAL people. How can you infuse yourself into your content?
Personal Story time:
When I worked at the fire dept, I will never forget a colleague telling me I was meant for more than what I was doing in that seat. I was already blogging here and there as the editor for Kandid Koilz where I shared my natural hair journey and products I loved. I attended events and found my tribe which I'm still in contact with those gals today. BUT, for my colleague to point that out to me was a spark I didn't know I needed and surprisingly, although I had heard it before, it just hit different coming from her. There was no LOL behind it but a straight face and honesty of...you don't belong here.
I started taking IT seriously (the it was beyond just blogging but that's another conversation) and I started thinking of my blog name. It took me a few weeks actually becuz I wanted to REALLY come up with something that represented me all around and I landed on Balls of Beauty Blog and if that's how you found me or followed me along that journey-THANK YOU!! It was a helluva ride and afforded me alot of opportunities I treasure.
Your name is everything. Define what you wanna express to us but don't feel like you need to be tethered in it forever. We have all re-branded in a way whether it was changing the name, niche and message. As we should becuz it allows us room to GROW. As much as I loooved my Balls, I knew it was time for me to shed that skin and step into a new era of my blogging. My closet has changed, my style has changed and I'm allowing seasons to end without forcing closure. The old version of my life has served me well but these new goals are different and I'm aligning all of those things with...The Dainty Brew.
I can't teach you how to be yourself but I can show you every time you click and engage with my content ;) I hope you've enjoyed an intro to get you started on your future endeavors into the game. I may just drop a video to summarize all of this...lemme do that...
Let me know what you think, I'll do a few more of these in different parts to round it off and share my experience in the arena. I hope you all have been inspired with an extra push to jumpstart your creative outlets and rev'd up your engines to goooo. As you can see this is also the beginning for me and I'm like...**PUBLISH**
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