Blogging Empowerment

Over the years with technology we have seen the tide of change where we decide where and who to get our pool of information from, with also being able to add our point of view on the subject with the upgrade of technology.

With the internet came new ways to reach masses of different audiences with interaction from all around the globe, this also allow everyday commoners to share their interests, lifestyle, knowledge in the form of blogging where anyone could write anything they wanted, if people liked what they wrote about they interacted in a way of either a comment, a share on a social media platform where the people they interact with can see what they read, like and find knowledgeable information.  

Before the internet we used to get our information from Newspapers, T.V, Books, Radio, Magazines now a lot of company's in these sectors had to change to putting their information on the internet as well as the hard copy versions they were doing, due to massive amounts of people using the internet and not buying hard copy versions of information this changing the type of jobs that need doing, also people seeing this a way to work for themselves or work from home online, making a name for themselves without having a big company taking the profits for all their hard work.

Blogging hasn't been around that long - Looking around online, I found this great information piece - A Brief History of Blogging - it's  a 5 minute read - a great detailed history of when blogging got started - written in 2011, and the changes that have happened over the years to the technical site of blogs -  as in the beginning if you weren't a developer or have the skill set on coding it was apparently impossible to start blogging. 

With blogging going mainstream in the mid 2000's for anyone finding out about blogging just now or in the last few years is blogging now saturated and how can blogging give empowerment to anyone, if not in a positive way you may be asking?

Let's start with the saturation with blogging

• Tumblr blog posts from 2011 - April 2017 - have now gone past 345 blog accounts - you can see the statics here! - That is only one blog posting site. 
• Wordpress apparently supports more than 60 million websites, in February 2017 more than 25.7% of the top Ten Million websites used Wordpress. - Wikipedia 
• Whats the total number of websites in the world - You can see live stats here! It just keeps moving -   1,213,143,664 - the last three digits keep going up really fast. 
• How many internet users are there in the world Here! -  with  3,739,698,500  people using the internet which is 49.7% of the world population. 

Which looking around for information on how many blog accounts are existing in 2017 I came across this blog post - Bloggers Income Report April 2017: How Much Money Do Top Bloggers Make  
Looking thru at the monthly income for April, the expenses and what they need to do to make what they do.
Lets take a look at the top ranking blog that was found by the blog post above.

                                                                       Pat Flynn 

• Writes 5-10 blog posts a month 
• Podcasts
• Webinars
• Interviews other bloggers
• Speaker at events
• Email subscription - offers Ebooks and Guides
• Affiliate Products 

Going to Pat Flynn's Website which is about How To Build A Ethical Business Fueled By Passive Income it has his monthly earnings report 

• March 2017 - $258,737.45  Expenses - $46,620.36   Net Profit - $212,117.09
• April 2017 - $102,915.99   Expenses - $50,460.77   Net Profit - $52,455.22
• May 2017 - $111,820.46    Expenses - $78,720.97    Net Profit - $33,099.49

Pat Flynn also writes up each month what he has done and what was his expenses that month.
 

Is Blogging Saturated?     

  

It's like looking at a glass that's beverage line is right in the middle of the glass, some will say the glass is half full, some will say the glass is half empty!

You could say the same about blogging that just under half the worlds population is online, technology is always changing, at the start of blogging it was only developers that were doing blogs, then platforms popped up where you could build a website off their coding but still needed to do SEO, Marketing - email -video -pod casting  -Email -ADS, Affiliate promoting, Build your own product, build your audience also needed to learn what plugins to use when building your website or pay some one to build one which can easily cost $500 to $1000+ and less than a year ago technology has changed again.

A Blogging platform which is so much more that is still in beta, which has been going for less than two weeks of a year, which gives people time to focus on the quality of their posting, knowledge is key, think of it like a digital scrap book.

Steemit isn't just another blogging platform, it's a social blogging site based on top of the Block-chain, when you post on steemit your posts are there forever on the block-chain.
You don't need to worry about SEO, where to place ads, how to set up a website. 

• SEO - is done through the Steemit platform - SEO specialists have been really happy at how high ranked their post get on Google.   
• ADS - No ads here,
  So how would I earn if I don't place ads for people to click?
  Like other social media sites when someone likes what you post they either like and share your post, here it's call upvoting and resteeming - when this is done unlike other social media sites or blog sites you get rewarded for your content. 
• Website - you don't need to pay for website hosting, website Dominion, plugins - Steemit is a free Account. 
  What if I already have a website?
  If you have a website already there are plugins on wordpress, not surer about other sites, that you can plugin to your website to stream your Steemit blog posts to your website, if your having trouble we have Steemit.chat were everyone is very helpful. 
• Marketing - it's a platform where others use it, Your content depending on your title and your content, if others will read it, you can pay for advertising on the Steemit platform, or you can share to your Twitter, Facebook account via the Steemit app.
  Another way is interact with other users, comment on others posts about their post, this helps to share your point of view, also be apart of the community, others may then start looking at your content also. 
• Selling Services or Products - If you have a service or product that can be advertised on peerhub, as Steemit is for knowledge sharing which you could share knowledge about making products, business, different services out their how they got started etc if that's what you are knowledgeable in. 
• Business/Email Marketing - If your a business or someone that shares knowledgeable emails every so often, you may want to share them on Steemit where others can learn from your knowledge also - before doing so you may want to check out some of the very few rules - as it' s about knowledge not spam. 

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                                                 Blogging Empowerment

Sorry its been along post to actually get to the title name, I wanted to explain blogging, just encase someone reading didn't know what blogging is.

As some of the information that was shared above Blogging can Empower your 

• Knowledge
• Community
• Financial 
• Confidence
• Gratitude

When you share Knowledge that you are knowledgeable and passionate about this can help others by giving them knowledge by learning what you know, which can for some be a new skill that could help them change their lives by them finding what they are good at, changing their lifestyle to benefit themselves and others.
Blogging isn't a one way street it's both ways, as you are sharing knowledge others might add knowledge they know about also in the comment section that might be of value to you or to others, it may lead you to finding more information which you might lead you to being more knowledgeable in the subject you are writing about.

If you are using a platform like Steemit then users that find your content of value can upvote it, resteem it which in turn can add a little financial reward to your content.

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            How Has Blogging Empowered My Life?

In different ways from being able to read others blog posts, being able to find natural remedy's, finding others doing the lifestyle I would like to achieve - sustainable,  living from the earth, home schooling, healthier food options, going chemical free, homemade so much more as it gives me hope that it is possible to change to the lifestyle we would like.
Arm chair traveling around the world reading the great adventures and some very scary ones, to one day We might be able to do some actual traveling, and live our dreams like others are doing.

Blogging has shaped what I would like to share, dig deep and find myself and what I can actually share with the world that is of use and knowledgeable.
Everyone's knowledge and experience is different as ones point of view it doesn't matter if their are hundreds of people doing the same thing, as everyone is unique and has a different way of presenting their knowledge and experience.
If only one person looks at your post but they learnt something new isn't that what sharing your knowledge is about?

                                       Has Blogging Empowered Your life in some way?  

 
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