The Urge For Instant Success (Why Most New Bloggers Fail)
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When bloggers start out, they’re usually all pumped up and energized and ready to conquer the world. Agreed, that’s what anyone feels like when starting a new school year or a new job, and so on.
But, there are several things which can cause more harm, than good. You’ve got to be careful and cautious about what you do and when. One of the things you have to be careful about is what ’success’ means to you, and setting reasonable goals:
Immediate Success
Often times, new bloggers want to achieve success very soon, or immediately. They create posts, and expect traffic to automatically come, and the number of RSS subscriptions to automatically increase, and the popularity of their blog to also automatically increase. They expect all this in a very short time. But, unfortunately, it’s not like instant coffee.
Success very rarely (there are always exceptions ;)) comes immediately. Most newbies don’t appreciate that. First you’ve got to create quality, niche oriented content, that gets noticed in social circles and search engines. You have to build a strong social network around you (Twitter, Plurk, etc). You need to do other things too, such as provide incentive to readers to subscribe to your blog, and ask them to share your content with others.
Good relationships take time to build, and you have to build a good relationship with your readers. That takes time too, even years, maybe?
If you’re inflicted with this dilemma, try to make yourself realize that it takes time, hard work, perspiration, and patience and perseverance to succeed. After all, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, eh?
What Damage Can This Do?
A lot, in fact. For instance, you set up an unreasonable goal of say 10,000 RSS subscribers in only a few days. Now naturally (and probably), when you don’t succeed, you become disillusioned and disappointed. You decide your strategy was crap, and start over. You set your self another unreasonable goal, and again, when you probably don’t succeed, you start over again. If you don’t start over, you continue struggling on. This cycle continues on and on, until you finally give up, believing that your blog was nothing but a waste of time. Scary, isn’t it?
The Remedy
Take things easy. Define your goals, and break up your destination towards success into stages. It’s like a ladder. You climb it one rung at a time 
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Hi Muhammad, whats up ? :P
You’re totally right with your article. First, I think that you must love what you do with your blog to succeed and at first, you shouldn’t worry about your traffic. Lets say for the first 4-5-6 months. Checking the statistics can be great to see where the traffic comes from so you can maybe imagine a strategy from it, but you shouldn’t care much about the actual numbers.
Hi Muhammad
success is something that can’t achieved over night, you need to dedicate a lot of time and hard work to be where Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Aaron Wall are today, they have spend good part of their life to achieve the ProBlogger status.
Errr, how much of a sad sack does one have to be to be a failure at blogging? With millions of people doing it, it’s not rocket science.
If I was a failure at blogging, I may as well kill myself since I’m probably not even capable of feeding myself.
yeah im agree with you there is no a one night succes, i just need to enjoy my everyday blogging. and keep try what work and what not.