How to Write Your First Blog Post

you have already started your blog and if you haven’t I will leave a link down below to a special tutorial that I have but once you actually have that domain and you have your hosting and you’re sitting there I’m hooking up this baby blog and you don’t know what comes next you might think okay great now I need blog posts okay great what blog posts should I be writing in this Post I will be giving you a very important tip on exactly what kind of blog posts you should be writing first on your brand new blog hey guys I’m Alison Lindstrom of Alison Lynch I’m calm and I’m so excited.

 that you’re here today May 1st 2019 is a very special day because we have officially opened the doors for the 2019 summer 2019 enrollment of my blogging course called blogging to win this blogging course helps you create the framework for building a profitable blogging business so not just a hobby blog been an actual serious blog and I only open the doors to new students four times a year and so we have officially opened this morning now you can complete the course as quickly or as slowly as you want it is entirely up to you it’s completely self-paced but being able to get into the course only happens.

How to Write Your First Blog Post

 four times a year so if you’re interested head on over to blogging to win calm one of the biggest mistakes I see people make about the first blog posts that they publish on their brand-new baby blog is simply the fact that they forget that the blog that they’re writing is not actually about them it’s about the readers so a lot of times we will kind of gravitate towards writing a blog post about you know why I started this blog or how I got here or kind of all about the author themselves and by the time people land on your blog especially if you’re new I hate to sound mean but they don’t love you.

 yet they don’t really know you they don’t know your brand and the only person who is going to become an instant dedicated fan is let’s be honest your mother so what you want to do is you want your very first blog post to be all about your read you want to inspire them and guide them and help them so here’s my advice for you grab a pen and paper you’re not gonna want to miss any of these steps first things first you’re going to want to write down your niche you never want to forget what it is you are writing about and who it is you are targeting trust me that sounds very simple.

 but it’s very easy to get distracted and to kind of start to write about other things that don’t totally work in with our brand or don’t totally have you know everything a hundred thousand percent to do with our niche so make sure that you are very clear in defining who it is you’re targeting and what it is you want to teach the second thing you’re going to want to do is write down three things that everyone who is in that niche should know so if you are writing about knitting and somebody comes to you and says I don’t know anything about knitting I’m a beginner I don’t know how to make a stitch I don’t know what size knitting needles I should buy there are different sizes right what should I do and that’s.

 what you’re going to want to write that list for write a list of three things that every knitter should know every single person and then you’ll write blog posts about those things the third thing you’re going to want to do is make sure that every single one of the three blog posts that you’re writing create a very comfortable and safe learning environment when you think about it most bloggers not all of them but most successful bloggers are less journalists and more teachers what we’re doing is we’re taking a category or taking a niche that we’re really passionate about and we’re creating this safe learning.

environment for you to learn how to master whatever that category is so if you’re writing about how to knit XYZ or how to do this stitch or how to knit a scarf you want to make 04:01 sure that you use a tone and you use vocabulary that makes the reader feel like this is a safe place where they’re not gonna get laughed on you want them to feel like this is a place they want to go to because you’re enthusiastic about teaching them and you’re never gonna make them feel like not knowing all the answers is really just a shortcoming of theirs so be very clear and be very defined and everything’s step by step.

 especially if you’re in that sort of niche the fourth thing that you’re going to want to do is really focus on establishing your authority and that really just means you want to show them you know what you’re talking about so this kind of ties in with step number three in the sense that you want to be very clear and you want to give them very actionable steps so kind of break things down for them very easily that’s kind of step number three but this step number four is be very clear and don’t leave anything out so you want to break things down but you also want to make sure.

 that you don’t make the project feel so overwhelming that they’re not able to complete it you have one goal and that is to make readers leave your site feeling like they have accomplished something or feeling the inspiration to accomplish it later at a different time that’s your entire goal as a blogger if you want to be successful if you want to grow business you’re not going to be doing it by only taking the best photos or only having the best social media strategy it is truly all about how you make your readers feel so let me give a quick example here of how you would take all these different tips and how you would write your first blog post.

 so let’s pretend that we’re in the Knitting category and our niche is all about knitting baby stuff because let’s be honest knitting baby stuff is like the cutest thing on the planet alright so maybe the first blog post that you would write about is all about the different types of yarns there are out there and then what’s really safe or what’s gentle enough for baby skin I don’t know anything about that so I can’t really give examples but I know that there are different types of yarns and that some are probably best for babies so if your niche is all about knitting stuff for babies and you want to teach somebody who’s desperately trying to create a cue project for a newborn but doesn’t know the first thing about it.

 you need to explain to them you know all about the different types of yarns and what yarns are going to be best for the baby soft skin the second plug post I would probably write would be something like the five most basic knitting stitches that you need to know I would hazard a guess there’s a lot of different stitches out there I have no idea but I’m assuming that if you’re going to make a hat or if you’re going to make a blanket they’re going to different stitches that you use for those two different things so that would be the second blog post I would probably write the third blog post.

 I would probably write would be something about how to knit a baby burp cloth or how to knit a small baby blanket or something like that so obviously those are projects and projects are hard but I would hazard a guess that a blanket is probably a lot easier than baby booties or a baby dress so that’s gonna wrap it up for this video don’t forget if you are interested in joining my blogging to win course check the link in the description box or head on over to blogging to win calm I am so excited that we have opened this for the summer school is getting out we’re gonna be heading down to the pool.

How to Write Your First Blog Post

 this is just an exciting time for me and I feel like even if you’re gonna be having your kids at home and they’re on summer vacation now is the best time to focus on you know beginning to work on that framework to building that blog for the fall and Beyond so even though your kids are at home right now now’s the perfect time to kind of do that homework late at night or whenever you have just a little bit of me time 10 or 15 minutes you can watch a lesson a day or so that by that way by the time they get to the fall and they head back to school you are already mentally prepared and you already kind of have an idea of what you really want to work on in the fall to build your own blogging business.

 so if you have any questions leave them in the comments down below  you have already started your blog and if you haven’t I will leave a link down below to a special tutorial that I have but once you actually have that domain and you have your hosting and you’re sitting there I’m hooking up this baby blog and you don’t know what comes next you might think okay great now I need blog posts okay great what blog posts should I be writing in this video I will be giving you a very important tip on exactly what kind of blog posts you should be writing first on your brand new blog.

 hey guys I’m Alison Lindstrom of Alison Lynch I’m calm and I’m so excited that you’re here today May 1st 2019 is a very special day because we have officially opened the doors for the 2019 summer 2019 enrollment of my blogging course called blogging to win this blogging course helps you create the framework for building a profitable blogging business so not just a hobby blog been an actual serious blog and I only open the doors to new students four times a year and so we have officially opened this morning now you can complete the course as quickly or as slowly as you want it is entirely up to you.

 it’s completely self-paced but being able to get into the course only happens four times a year so if you’re interested head on over to blogging to win calm one of the biggest mistakes I see people make about the first blog posts that they publish on their brand-new baby blog is simply the fact that they forget that the blog that they’re writing is not actually about them it’s about the readers so a lot of times we will kind of gravitate towards writing a blog post about you know.

 why I started this blog or how I got here or kind of all about the author themselves and by the time people land on your blog especially if you’re new I hate to sound mean but they don’t love you yet they don’t really know you they don’t know your brand and the only person who is going to become an instant dedicated fan is let’s be honest your mother so what you want to do is you want your very first blog post to be all about your read you want to inspire them and guide them and help them so here’s my advice for you grab a pen and paper you’re not gonna want to miss any of these steps first things first you’re going to want to write down your niche you never want to forget what it is you are writing about and who it is you are targeting trust me.

 that sounds very simple but it’s very easy to get distracted and to kind of start to write about other things that don’t totally work in with our brand or don’t totally have you know everything a hundred thousand percent to do with our niche so make sure that you are very clear in defining who it is you’re targeting and what it is you want to teach the second thing you’re going to want to do is write down three things that everyone who is in that niche should know so if you are writing about knitting and somebody comes to you and says I don’t know anything about knitting I’m a beginner I don’t know how to make a stitch I don’t know what size knitting needles I should buy there are different sizes right what should I do and that’s what you’re going to want to write that list for write a list of three things that.

every knitter should know every single person and then you’ll write blog posts about those things the third thing you’re going to want to do is make sure that every single one of the three blog posts that you’re writing create a very comfortable and safe learning environment when you think about it most bloggers not all of them but most successful bloggers are less journalists and more teachers what we’re doing is we’re taking a category or taking a niche that we’re really passionate about and we’re creating this safe learning environment for you to learn how to master whatever that category is so if you’re writing about how to knit XYZ or how to do this stitch or how to knit a scarf you want to make  sure that you use a tone and you use vocabulary that makes the reader feel like this is a safe place.

 where they’re not gonna get laughed on you want them to feel like this is a place they want to go to because you’re enthusiastic about teaching them and you’re never gonna make them feel like not knowing all the answers is really just a shortcoming of theirs so be very clear and be very defined and everything’s step by step especially if you’re in that sort of niche the fourth thing that you’re going to want to do is really focus on establishing your authority and that really just means you want to show them you know what you’re talking about so this kind of ties in with step number three in the sense that you want to be very clear and you want to give them very actionable steps.

 so kind of break things down for them very easily that’s kind of step number three but this step number four is be very clear and don’t leave anything out so you want to break things down but you also want to make sure that you don’t make the project feel so overwhelming that they’re not able to complete it you have one goal and that is to make readers leave your site feeling like they have accomplished something or feeling the inspiration to accomplish it later at a different time that’s your entire goal as a blogger if you want to be successful if you want to grow business you’re not going to be doing it by only taking the best photos or only having the best social media strategy it is truly all about how you make your readers feel so let me give a quick example.

 here of how you would take all these different tips and how you would write your first blog post so let’s pretend that we’re in the Knitting category and our niche is all about knitting baby stuff because let’s be honest knitting baby stuff is like the cutest thing on the planet alright so maybe the first blog post that you would write about is all about the different types of yarns there are out there and then what’s really safe or what’s gentle enough for baby skin I don’t know anything about that so I can’t really give examples but I know that there are different types of yarns and that some are probably best for babies so if your niche is all about knitting stuff for babies and you want to teach somebody.

 who’s desperately trying to create a cue project for a newborn but doesn’t know the first thing about it you need to explain to them you know all about the different types of yarns and what yarns are going to be best for the baby soft skin the second plug post I would probably write would be something like the five most basic knitting stitches that you need to know I would hazard a guess there’s a lot of different stitches out there I have no idea but I’m assuming that if you’re going to make a hat or if you’re going to make a blanket they’re going to different stitches that you use for those two different things so that would be the second blog post.

 I would probably write the third blog post I would probably write would be something about how to knit a baby burp cloth or how to knit a small baby blanket or something like that so obviously those are projects and projects are hard but I would hazard a guess that a blanket is probably a lot easier than baby booties or a baby dress so that’s gonna wrap it up for this video don’t forget if you are interested in joining my blogging to win course check the link in the description box or head on over to blogging to win calm I am so excited that we have opened this for the summer school is getting out.

 we’re gonna be heading down to the pool this is just an exciting time for me and I feel like even if you’re gonna be having your kids at home and they’re on summer vacation now is the best time to focus on you know beginning to work on that framework to building that blog for the fall and Beyond so even though your kids are at home right now now’s the perfect time to kind of do that homework late at night or whenever you have just a little bit of me time 10 or 15 minutes you can watch a lesson a day or so that by that way by the time they get to the fall and they head back to school you are already mentally prepared and you already kind of have an idea of what you really want to work on in the fall to build your own blogging business so if you have any questions leave them in the comments down below