An Open Letter To Aspiring Bloggers – “If You Don’t Have Money To Invest In a Blog, Please Don’t Start One” As written by Promise Excel, a Writer, Entrepreneur and CEO of MaverickExcel.com Read below:

I am sick and tired of people who come to me saying, “teach me how to start a successful blog” and when I ask, “do you have the time, money and resources to start and run a successful blog”?, I usually get responses like, “I’m broke, I don’t have money”. “I’m a student, please help me”. “I have the time but no money”….bla bla bla…

Really?

You don’t have money and you want to start a successful blog?

Do you think that blogging is a get-rich-quick scheme? I’m sorry to disappoint you, it is not.

You expect me to give you a sermon on blogging and after that, you tell me thank you and run after another shiny object?

I think that’s insane.

Maybe you need to go read the report I wrote on my one year in blogging.

Or perhaps I should give you a little gist about it.

I made lots of investments into my blog before ever making a kobo from it.

Google was my closest friend. I read every blog posts and ebooks about blogging.

I visited every successful blog I knew of and studied their blogs like a textbook. I visited at least 10 blogs every day.

I would read every second and minute of the day. At times, I read on the streets, in the toilet, in the kitchen and even while eating.

Most times, I read all through the night.

I didn’t email every blogger I knew asking them how to start a successful blog. I started one and only asked for feedback.

I made a thousand and one mistakes. I spent lots of money to start a blog. I spent over 20 hours trying to install a blog.

At a point, I went to work as a laundry boy just to get money to support my blog. I hated the job. My mum was mad at me. My friends laughed at me. They called me laundry boy.

Not only that, my salary was a ridiculous #7,000. I worked from 7am-10pm. Sometimes, I closed by 11pm. It was a terrible experience. I endured it all because I was looking at the bigger picture.

I never gave up. Never stopped learning.

After complaining about how little my salary was, my boss increased it to #8,000. I worked there a couple of months until I got tired of receiving peanut.

I resigned.

I got another job as a class teacher the same day I resigned from my laundry job. My present salary was #10,000. I cared less because it was better than what I was receiving in the previous job.

After two months, my salary was increased to #11,000. I resigned. I was called back to work again. This time my salary was #13,000 forever.

It was not quite long, I got another job as a home teacher for #12,000. Now, my salary was #25,000. I got another job as a home teacher or #5,000.

Now, my total salary for a month was #30,000.

Guess what happened to all that money?

I invested all into my blog.

Somebody who was earning that much in a month was supposed to be living large, buying fancy cloths, shoes and designer perfumes.

But, I was always broke.

My shoes were in “things fall apart” and my cloths were crying for replacement. I was earning 30k in a month but my life didn’t look like it.

Keeping three jobs was the most stressful thing I’ve done in my life. I was emaciating. My friends would say, “guy you don lean o”. I smiled in shame. If only they knew what I was passing through.

I went through hell. No, I mean, I lived in hell just to make sure that my dream of having a successful blog came through.

You see, I didn’t bother people with my life. In fact, I never asked my mum for a dime to invest into my blog. It is my life and I take full responsibility for it.

I didn’t go stalking anybody asking them how to start a blog.

I read. I googled. I learned. I worked. I ground. I strove. I hustled.

I’m writing this post to challenge all those people who do come to me asking how to start a successful blog and at the same time don’t have a kobo to spend on it.

Is there anybody who ever starts a business without investing into it?

How badly do you want to start and run a successful blog or any other business venture?

Bad enough to stay awake all night and read?

Bad enough to invest all your hard earned money into a new venture you have little or no knowledge about?

Bad enough to wear rags and straw?

I can’t guess how bad you want to start a successful blog.

But what are you willing to give up, sacrifice, forgo and endure to make your dream come true?

If you expect success to be automatic and effortless, welcome to disappointment.

If you are only willing to invest a little, you will get back a little.

If you don’t have the money to spend on blogging, go look for a job. Blogging is not a get-rich-quick scheme.

If you want to talk to me about anything related to blogging, you can book me for a 60 minutes free blog consultation/coaching.

And afterwards, you can apply for my course, “30 days to start a successful and profitable blog”.

But, if you’re broke as I was when I started blogging newly, go look for a job first or go use google for your research.

Better still, you can volunteer to work with any successful blogger you like for one or two months to gain experience.

Every result I’m getting today from my blog is because I worked hard at it. I hustled 24/7 to reach where I am today.

I would only like to work with people who have potential for and commitment to success and not someone who is looking for a quick way to solve his money problems.

Blogging is not gonna solve your money problems. At least, not when you’re just starting.

In fact, you don’t even have to start a blog. The world won’t stop if you don’t blog. You will never become Linda Ikeji. There will always be one of her.

You can only be the best of yourself. So, stop running after every shiny object.

If you don’t have money to invest on a blog, please don’t start one.

Source: http://www.jtownconnect.com/2016/09/an-open-letter-to-aspiring-bloggers.html

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