One Monday morning, a serious man with a serious goal thought…
I need someone who will write their heart out every day. Put their best work in the harsh glare of public attention, get criticized, ignored, and belittled, and maybe every once in a while experience the joy of changing the heart of one reader.
So God Made A Blogger…
Another said…
Can you bring me someone who can weave ordinary moments into extraordinary stories, turn a hard-heart into a passionate fan, wield words like a weapon, inspire and enlist the world-changing power of a 1000 “true fans”. A warrior who doesn’t flinch when the cause is just, engage instead of retreat, and respond to anyone with good intentions and an open mind.
So God Made A Blogger…
One more felt the situation was too bleak to ask but decided to try…
God can you…
Give me someone who can diagnose a busted plugin, connect a tricky email opt-in form, adjust the padding of an author box by 10 pixels and schedule a post to publish tomorrow at 10AM sharp. A miracle worker who can seduce Google, edit a less than stellar guest post, break silos, promote a post on 5 social platforms in 5 minutes, and explain the mysteries of content marketing to the CEO.
So God Made A Blogger…
[Inspired by the incredible Ram Truck “So God Made A Farmer” Superbowl Commercial]
To be a successful blogger takes a very modern skill set that takes time to acquire. Bloggers have to be good copywriters, graphic designers, computer savvy and prepared to spend long hours with little return in the initial stages. Even then, it still takes a long time to build the stable following that is required to make it financially viable to spend all of that time and effort on it in the first place. At heart bloggers are old fashioned entrepreneurs.
This is awesome. VERY creative and remarkable!
Brilliant Stanford!!! To the farmer (or, should I say “blogger”?) in all of us! Great work! Thanks.
Stanford- Read this post, and felt the need to run with it. I’ve created my own version for entrepreneurs, and credited your article. If you feel so inclined, would love your thoughts: http://iasourcelink.com/blog/iowa-business-blog/2013/02/05/what-being-an-entrepreneur-really-means. Hope you are well, and cheers to starting out 2013!
God seems to have made me to be a blogger too Stan. It is great to see you putting your own advice into action to create engaging content! From the comments it seems that you have succeeded. Love your work mate!
Nice one Stanford,
Now I’m off to try and weave ordinary moments into some extraordinary stories.
Matt.
Great example of drafting off a popular idea, Stanford. Absolutely adored “…explain the mysteries of content marketing to the CEO.”
Thanks! that was the first sentence I drafted and went from there.
Love it!
Thanks Heather.
Very creative and well said! Nicely done!
Thanks Chip. The commercial was awesome – it was easy to do a little riff on it.
I like it, Stan. I like it a lot.
Jane
Thank you Jane!