Rich Niche 6: Personal Experience Blogging
Posted on 03. Dec, 2008 by Trond in Rich Niche Blogging
Surely personal experience blogging is easy … right? Actually, sometimes the stories we have within ourselves take even more talent than the features we research. It’s closer to you, and often the perfectionist blogger comes out. In short, personal experience blogging is about tailoring your views into something positive or negative … engaging the reader with a true life story … and then attempting to get them to return for your next. This guide will show you how to do just that.
Subject Finder:
There are only about a few million stories you can tell. Some of them will interest your blog readers, some will be boring. The true problem is there are no two blog readers exactly alike, so one post may appeal to one while not the other. On the other side, this can be good, because just about any topic will reach someone. One reader hates depression stories or stories of romance … the other is a soap opera fanatic and likes reading about how others defeated depression. So, this means few choices are entirely wrong, just that some are more profitable than others.
War Stories:
“War Stories” of course don’t mean your days in Vietnam or Iraq, but if you do have those stories, a few million of us are interested. War stories simply mean battling major problems, going through a life full of success and failure. You once were homeless … you once battled drug and/or alcohol addiction … you have a major illness. These are all stories which are far from boring. If anything, they’re like creative gold. To write them, you still need a basic storytelling sense. Read up on major magazines that offer such true to life stories of fighting, winning, and losing. Some are faith driven like “Guideposts” while others offer artistic experience like “The Sun.”
Profit Stories:
Another popular field to write in is the “profit story” where you talk like a good old get rich quick scheme … except you’re not asking readers to send you a dime. You are saying, more or less, this is how it worked for me. Wealth is the biggest example, but if you gained anything by making the right choice, from a handsome husband to a newborn son, these qualify. People like to hear about it, people like to read about it.
Jokes:
Sometimes personal experience blog posts come down to telling a joke. You don’t take the world too seriously, you make fun of yourself, and you do it often or occasionally. These posts often form a smaller amount of your regular posting; it’s tough to tell jokes for a living. Yet they can make the reader see a different side of you.
Why write them all?
Why write all these war stores, soap operas, profit stories, and hilarious experiences? You can write on just about any topic you want—that’s the biggest. You will rarely run out of ideas, because all your years and memories continue to grow each day you live. In the end, it’s about having some fun while sharing your world view with readers, hoping your words will affect them, and hoping to they’ll become repeat visitors.
Make Money Online:
Typically, personal experience bloggers don’t entirely focus on themselves constantly, burning out writing dozens of personal posts. However, with such a variety of topics, from depression to faith to even books and collecting, this falls into focusing on select topics. If you focused on depression, offering not only personal experience but also research, you could post Health related ads on your site, or offer to advertise directly to the health providers. Some even become authors, or are already authors, and build an income advertising their books while blogging. The possibilities here, whether it’s passive income ad campaigns or unique paid posting offers, are endless.
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