How to become a blogger

Yaro Starak has released a free report today for his new blog mentoring program become a blogger. You may download the report from here: Roadmap to become a blogger. The report is 72 pages, therefore I wanted to highlight the most important parts for my busy readers.

The Roadmap To Become A Blogger

The report is based on this idea: If you want to be successful in blogging, you need to reach the 5 Major  Milestones listed below. The report also provides action plans for each milestone:

• Discover your passion: The report not only tells you the importance of discovering your own passion, but also provides you a list of questions you can answer to discover your own passion.
• Discover the need:You need to find the gaps, and uncovered areas to be successful. Find blogging related problems, and try to solve them. You are done!
• Test your market on’t put all your eggs into one basket, diversify your blogs. Have at least 3 different blogs, and test them regularly.
• Focus your efforts: Your main tasks are creating great unique content, building traffic, and build a good reader base. Focus on adding more value to your readers.
  
• Start making money:It is the last milestone. After you meet the first four milestones, you can start monetizing your blog.

Highlights from the Report:

• We are at the peak of the number of new blogs being created every day. 2 new blogs created every 3 seconds! 7.4 million blogs in the last 120 days! You may read State of the Blogosphere 2008 report by Technorati for more details.
• This means that there will be an army of new daily bloggers in almost every single niche. You need to stand out to make a difference.
• X-Factor is a strategic implementation of multimedia blogging to your existing blog content, and as a result, increased circulation and traffic thanks to social media distribution. A good example is GeekBrief.tv
• Using Ustream.tv can set you apart from many bloggers in the market. You can also build good relationship with your readers.
• Use Skype to hook up with people from all over the world.
• Use the group function in Facebook to find exploitable niche areas.
• Use Seesmic.com to get feedback on your blog topics.
• Record podcast interviews with experts in your niche.
• Use BlogTalk radio to get access to a worldwide audience.
• Create a professional looking online video for your blog.
• Create buzz with Twitter.
• Submit your videos to multiple sides with TubeMogul.
• Automatically charge people by the minute by just chatting on Skype (this one is really worth reading!)

All in all the report is worth reading if you can dedicate a few hours. The mentioned tasks in the free report are all 80/20 rule activities, where you should be regularly doing for your blogging success. Therefore even if you can not afford become a blogger premium membership, do above mentioned tasks regularly, and you will still benefit from the Roadmap to become a blogger.