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Skills For Bloggers: What Does a Blogger Need To Succeed?

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Ashwin in Blogging motivation

When you learn new skills or basically upgrade yourself, you are literally redefining your own chances of success. The equation is pretty simple: the more you know and can do, the more you are worth. So, what must a blogger do to improve self-worth? What skills are best for a blogger to pick up? Should bloggers really worry so much about improving skills at all? You bet. Here are the skills that can take you a ,long way in your blogging career:

Marketing Skills: Marketing — the real, get your hands dirty kinds — isn’t taught anywhere. The knowledge comes from experience and that’s something only you can manage to acquire. Most people I know lack basic marketing skills and shy away from pitching themselves to grab more opportunities. Some people are of an Interesting opinion that marketing is dirty and that ” if I am good, they will come”. I am sorry, but it doesn’t work that way. Everyone and every business has to market relentlessly. Period.

HTML, CSS, PHP & MSQL: You must be wondering why I even mention these when you are a blogger. Of course, you don’t need to become a web developer, but if you know how these languages work and if you can just dabble a little with them, you are setting yourself on a higher plane altogether. WordPress, for instance, completely runs on HTML and CSS. Knowing more about these languages can enable you to not only just write on your blog but also tweak your blog, customize themes and do  anything you want with it. Pure power.

Networking Skills: I can personally stand testimony to the fact that acquiring networking skills can catapult you into a success orbit that you wouldn’t have thought possible, ever. Successful networking rests on your communication skills and the ability to develop rapport. Once you get to make in roads into others’ lives and start to influence them with your thoughts, you will be able to make them do anything for you which is exactly what you need to become successful, right?

What other skills do you think can help a blogger do better? Is there anything I missed out on?

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