Proud To Be A Blogging “Brand” Newbie
I just finished reading a blog post entitled “10 Easy Ways To Make Yourself Look Like A Blogging Newbie”. It is a satirical article poking light-hearted fun at being a blogging newbie while at the same time illuminating us to the amateurish mistakes we make.
The article was posted on May 19th 2007, has 128 comments and still generates comments today.
I’d say this author knew this post would strike a nerve with his audience.
Here is the first sentence.
<sarcasm>I’m sure that you all want everyone to think that you’re a blogging newbie! That’s what I want! Wouldn’t that be an awesome way to develop your brand?
Huh????
Brand??? The only brand I am promoting here right now is the brand…”NEW”. “NEW” is the only “brand” I have any right to market within the blogging community with any honest confidence.
There are way too many bloggers afraid to be tagged with what they believe is the “death-label” for blogging success. The infamous…
Blogging Newbie
God forbid a blogging newbie should stand up and admit the reality of their blogging experience or let slip the tawdry fact they are actually learning their trade on the job right in front of a live audience.
Yikes!! What would people ever think?
No…no…no…let’s create a blogging mask of confidence. You know…like the mask we create to feel comfortable inside the “REAL WORLD”. Then we can spend all our blogging energy making sure our blogging mask is in place so our readers will believe our “Pretend Blogging Brand”. Give me a break.
I remember when I was a young adult. A slick friend of mine was hired for a position as a Sales Rep at a high-end men’s retail clothing store. I asked him how he landed this great job when he didn’t know a thing about high-end men’s clothing. He looked me in the straight in the eyes and said,
“Simple…I lied.”
Then I asked him how he planned on fooling his naive employers the first few weeks on the job. He casually added that all you needed to do was…
“Fake it Until You Make It”
I kid you not. And he did “make it” and I never trusted this guy again. Ever! He never rose above the level of “drinking buddie” on my true friends list.
If that’s the type of blogging reputation you’re interested in cultivating and promoting for yourself…Go for it man…be like everyone else.
For me…thanks but no thanks.
Heck, there is nothing shameful with being tagged with the moniker of blogging newbie. It’s an honest place to be. Our blogging newbie skin should be shed when we naturally grow out of it and not a day sooner.
We certainly shouldn’t believe we can shed that skin because we’ve learned the all-important blogging rule of capitalizing every word in our Blog Post Titles. Man, that’s important.
And by the way, WHEN, not if, your blogging mask of confidence does slip off, your readers will not be surprised to find out your true newbie identity.
I here all this talk about striving for authority and credibility within the online community. You want to know how to increase your blogging credibility and authority immediately? Have enough guts to not be ashamed of being who you really are…a blogging “brand” newbie.
At least you will be an authentic blogger and not a fake.
Yea, I’ve strung I few sentences together and thrown them online for others to read. But from a financial standpoint, there is not a doubt in my mind as to my blogging status.
I am a blogging “brand” newbie. What are you?
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