How
to be a Successful Blogger
February 4th, 2009
1.)
Possess an insatiable desire for attention and recognition.
2.) Attempt to have
your writing professionally published in print.
3.) Fail.
4.) Start a blog.
5.) Develop a gimmick
topic and/or writing style targeted toward a select audience.
6.) Feel incredibly
humbled to just have a handful of people reading your “art”
and “creative expression”.
7.) Watch your readership
gradually increase.
8.) Become arrogant
and pretentious.
9.) Have some of your
articles go viral and become linked on a bunch of popular
websites.
10.) Become a popular
blogger.
11.) Become even more
arrogant and pretentious.
12.) Sellout and monetize
blog with advertisements and an online shop.
13.) Secure a book
deal.
14.) Quit your day
job.
15.) Become still more
arrogant and pretentious.
16.) Pour all creative
energy into the book, decreasing the quantity and quality
of new material on your blog.
17.) Release book,
which either becomes a best-seller or flops completely.
18.) Now having no
material left, allow blog to become boring, stale, and repetitive.
19.) Become “that
blogger people used to love to read back in the day, but is
totally lame now”, but never be fully aware of or admit
to this.
20.) Watch as blog
gradually descends back towards low readership and irrelevancy.
21.) Remain arrogant
and pretentious.
22.) Become forgotten.
23.) Retire, return
to day job, or commit suicide, or some combination thereof.
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