The 5 Steps Guide For New Bloggers

By Lior Levin

It certainly doesn’t take long before something hot on the Internet spreads like wildfire then the newbies joining the web only get to see the smoke. Take blogging for example, it has become so sophisticated that a newcomer interested in blogging is almost overwhelmed with all the information and where to start.

It is true that one can find anything on the Internet, and how to start blogging advice is no different. Another problem that arises though is that the interested party is often so enthusiastic about all there is to learn, that many times they are reading advice and information that dates back several years and they don’t even realize it.

Then when they go to apply what they have learned, it makes no sense and doesn’t work. This creates the makings for a real dilemma. What ends up happening is the would be blogger gives up and looks for something else to become confused about.

So what is the moral of the story here? Start at the beginning and say hello to blogging. Here are just a few basics to get the ball rolling. Once a newbie gets past this stage then they can consider themselves a blogger and leave some smoke behind for the next novice that comes along.

Step One:
Read some current articles and information that has a date on it about what blogging is about in general. Get a feel for it, then you will immediately start to generate your own blogging ideas about what you want to blog about.

Step Two:
Now you need to find some place to put your blog, so you need a blogging provider. Again do your homework. There are lots of them around and some are easier than others to use. Once thing you want is ease of use. This means they will have templates that you can use which is basically just filling in the blanks. Once you become a pro at blogging then you can progress onto the more elaborate concepts.

Step Three:
The easiest way to learn about blogging is from the pros. Once you have determined what it is you want to blog about then visit blogging sites that are in this niche. See how these established sites do it. If you have never posted to a blog before then now is the time to get your feet wet. You have a virtual voice so use it.

Step Four:
Once you get your blogging site set up then go back and visit the ones you were at in the above step and invite them to visit your blog, provided it is not a private blog site. Do it via comments, contact forms or messaging through twitter or facebook.

Step Five:
Research all the innovative ways to get your blog known. After all, blogging is not much fun if you are only blogging to yourself, its like a one way conversation.

When you look at it this way, blogging is not quite so overwhelming. There is a whole world out there waiting to hear about what you have to say, about anything you want to blog about, so go for it, here is your chance. Welcome to the world of blogging!

Author Information

Lior Levin is an owner of a SEO company working with a nursing wear brand called Milk Nursingwear and also working with a task management start-up.

Bluegreen Corporation Sucks. Really.

Last night I was the victim of a Bluegreen Corporation hard sell.

Just before 8 p.m. I took a call from a phone number I didn’t recognize–that was my first mistake. My second mistake was not doing what I usually do when I find out that I’ve received a sales call: tell the party calling that I’m not interested and hang up.

Instead, I listened briefly to the pitch and responded by saying that I wasn’t interested in a Myrtle Beach vacation. When he offered up Pigeon Forge, TN as a second choice I similarly declined. And that is when things began to get ugly.

Immediately, I could tell that the Bluegreen Corporation representative was taking my responses personally. Clearly, I wasn’t interested in either location and when he pressed me for where I would like to go, I told him that I wasn’t going to tell him.

For the next five minutes, the back and forth exchange grew increasingly heated with Mr. Bluegreen attempting to tell me why I had to listen to his pitch. I reminded him that he is the sales guy and that I, as an uninterested non-customer, didn’t have to listen to anything. When I told him to put our number on the national “do not call” registry list, he grew more defensive and said that he wouldn’t. Big mistake on his part.

Some info for you: the Federal Trade Commission has specific rules concerning “do not call” that all companies must follow. A word for companies: when someone shows no interest in your product then move on to the next person. Because this guy from Bluegreen was insistent on pushing his product against my will he generated two things against his company: an FTC complaint and my clearly unfavorable response on this blog.

Will complaining here do much to dissuade Bluegreen Corporation and their pushy sales staff? Maybe not. The company is based in Boca Raton, Florida and has been around since 1966. They’re big on timeshares and I’m sure they got a hold of us when someone in my family filled out an entry form for this or that prize on display at the Cary Towne Center mall near our home. Big mistake on our part.

Sure, Bluegreen Corporation may be big on “Colorful Places to Live and Play,” but that doesn’t mean that I want to participate nor am I interested in doing my part by advancing their position on the New York Stock Exchange (BXG) through helping their stock sell for more than the $2.63 per share it closed at on July 22.

But, I am willing to share time and again how Bluegreen Corporation treats its callers as well as share links to quality websites where people complain about their Bluegreen timeshares.

Enough said.