This article is by guest blogger Sarah Lam and moderated by Wong Sook Chin.

So, you have finally decided to be a blogger. Do you know the real reason why you want to be a blogger. For some people, it might be because they want to have an online diary to express themselves while others want to share their hobbies such as reading or playing games.

There are actually several reasons why one wants to be a blogger.

1. You want to earn money

Many people start a blog in the hope to earn money through the blog. The only problem is they might not know how they can earn money from their blog except by using Google Adsense. Money being a factor to start a blog is either a make or a break in the blogosphere.

2. You think you know something

It is obvious that when you blog, you are sharing knowledge with people. In this case, you must have known something that you can teach other people about. For example, you know how to play World of Warcraft and increase your character’s level faster than anyone else so you start a blog to share your tips.

3. Learn something

You will be surprised at how much knowledge you can learn when you start to blog. Imagine having to integrate writing and communication skills when you blog, thus helping you to improve your writing skills and communication skills at one go.

4. Inspire someone

Are you a cancer survivor? Perhaps you can start a blog and talk about your journey through recovering from cancer from surgery to chemotherapy. This will inspire other people with the same fate as you and motivate them to be strong so that they can heal just like you did.

5. The love for writing

You love to write and share it with the whole world about what you have written. You can have a blog to store all your great masterpieces, be it the next ‘Harry Potter’ series or simply poems and short stories that you have written. Mind you, someone might approach you to publish your work if you are lucky!

6. Freelancing portfolio

If you have a website dedicated to your services, that would be great but if you just want a small space on the web to promote your portfolio, a blog would be convenient and easy to set up. Whether you want to showcase your latest designs or writing samples, create a blog and spread them around to your potential clients and friends.

Have you found the real reason to have a blog?

Wishing you all the best from us.

Liz Strauss is the anchor woman behind Successful-Blog.com and the author of The Secret of Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog.

Being a successful writer and a blogger, surely there are many tips that we can learn from her after all the blogosphere in Malaysia is growing.

From an interview between Mary (the Chief Editor of Write To Done) and Liz, there are four very important keynotes that we all should take note in order to be an outstanding writer (or blogger).

Connect To Your Readers

There is a reason why it is important to connect to your readers. First and foremost, you need people to read your words. You are not writing just to display it to yourself but you are displaying to the whole world. You share your knowledge and thoughts but that would be useless without readers. By connecting to your readers, you are creating a two-way communication.

Listen To Your Readers

Now that you have your readers, you don’t expect them to just read without giving feedback, right? Learn to listen to your readers with an open mind. Trust your readers that they are making statements that will help you discover yourself in the process. Treasure their comments about your writing and accept criticism if there is any. You will learn to write better in times to come. Practice makes perfect.

Write From Your Heart

Be real to yourself and your audience. Share your feelings, your knowledge and your experience full of insights and information. Create something inspires your readers so that they can relate to themselves in a practical way. In other words, be passionate in your writing and you will reach out to your readers. There is no reason to write just for money. I know there are many writers out there but not every writers can write from the heart.

Love For Doing What You Do

“Do what you love in service to those who love what you do.” - Steve Farber

This is by far the most important element of all because if you have no love for writing, then your writing would be dead. When you love writing, naturally your writing will flourish. Take it as a mirror of reflection. Your readers can see you shine through your writing and they will love you for what you are and what you do.

If you can try to implement these tips in your daily writing, you are well on your way to become an outstanding writer.

Carl Ocab, more popularly known as the Kid-Blogger from Philippine, has created major revolution in the Internet world by mastering the art of making money online just at the age of 14. Carl got his first computer at the age of 4 and was introduced to Internet at the age of 10 only. At his initial stage of exploring away the online world, he mostly spent his time playing online games and communicating with friends. He had no idea of any potential income from this ever evolving world of Internet.

Firstly, he got the idea of turning his online entertainment to a source of income from his father, who introduced him to few of the money making practices such as blogging, AdSense, link building and basic SEO. Later on when he became more serious about this opportunity. He asked a domain of his own from his dad, and consequently got one. He then launched his own Blog about the online gaming he was so fond of. Carl produced original content and with time, he realized that his blog/forum has made a tremendous inroads and he was earning really well. At that time he launched few other blogs and virtually duplicated what he was doing with the first one, and the step paid off, as even the other blogs were running high thus multiplying his total revenue a great deal.

His experience and knowledge about the field of Online Money making is quite extensive and well-reputed. He believes people should readily start work on the field which he is confident of doing well. Intentionally resembling his favorite speaker Anthony Robbins who puts the whole issue in this way: “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

Before he rose to fame, he also tried few other blogging areas such as technology, gossips and health but were largely unsuccessful. However, when he rose to fame, it created a massive wave and even Google put him on the Rank #1 in its search result for “Make Money Online”.

Thus Carl proved that if you are passionate enough about something, you can achieve it despite being faced with adversaries of various dimensions.

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