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Dreal11247:
Please, how can I post my screenshot on the social network? I saw series of screenshot posts from different phones on Nalraland yesterday but couldn't post from my phone. I use Infinity Note 2

First do you know how to take a screenshot from your phone? That is the first step. If you can't I will teach you

Self employment is a form of entrepreneurship. An entrepreneur is someone who organizes a business venture and assume the risk of it. Both entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals as described in your post share the same quality.

What you are trying to do here is making attempt to differentiate between being a business owner, and being self-employed. By definition both the self-employed and business owners are entrepreneurs the only difference is how and who runs the business.

A business owner have employees or a team who are running the business. His physical presence is not needed in the day today running of the business. Such businesses are often incorporated. They have the potential to outlive their owners.

The self-employed unlike the business owners most often must be available for the day today running of the business.

Finally; saying self-employment is not entrepreneurship is like saying white yam is not a yam. People who are self-employed are also entrepreneurs just like business owners.

Blogging is a marathon not sprint. Marathon is a long distance race while sprint is a short distance race.

Julius2214:
Great tips I must say. I'm not surprised its coming from you.

Particularly on your second point, most of the blogs I see today don't have a focus. They write about just anything that comes their way, be it farming, entertainment, education, technology and so on. With this, there's no way you can get a loyal reader. Readers will never come back because most of them are looking for a specific topic.

Imagine you blog about business and income. And with that you gathered a number of loyal readers. And they keep coming back just to read about business tips.

Now tell me, what do you think will happen when your next post becomes "Can you believe what happened to Tonto Dike yesterday" or "Iyanyan shows off his hot six packs"... they may see it as a mistake the first time but if it happens again, they're gone. FOREVER.

So, always think it through before choosing a niche. Nice tips once again.

You are very on point @julius. Thanks for your contribution. I have learned a lot from your articles on blogging.

ceecia:
Thank you. I publish contents 3 times a week.

That is gud.

I want to assume that you have heard so many things about blogging. You are aware it's a way to share your thoughts with the world, and have also heard the tales of people who made thousands and millions of money every month on their own blog. You soliloquize that you know so much about a certain subject and have started considering starting your own blog. I want to confirm to you that what you have been told which are in line with my assumptions here are true. Now that you have started considering joining the blogosphere, I have written this post specially for you, to inform you of things you need to know, do and put in place as you begin your blogging career.

Before you embark on any project, it is good you count the cost. Counting the cost and planning in advance are the two factors that help to guarantee success in life. As we have tales of successful bloggers, so also are so many untold stories of failed bloggers. Most bloggers failed because they are not aware of some of the information I shared in this post before they started. They began blogging with a wrong notion, they acted based on their notion, when things didn’t work out as they expected, they gave up. As you are about to start your blogging journey, I want you to know and do the following:

1. Define exactly why you want to blog: It has been said that when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable. Every activity is always aimed towards an end, and when the end is reached, such activity is discarded. Before you start blogging, you must define why you want to blog. Are you blogging to establish yourself as an authority on a specific subject? Is your goal to be famous through your blog? Do you want to use blogging to promote your business? Or do you just want to make money blogging? Defining why you want to blog will help you to chart the path to follow as you begin your blogging journey. I started taiwoemayosan.com to establish myself as an authority on the subject of success, and also to promote my public speaking business, that is why you will never see any news on this blog. All the articles on this blog as at the time of publishing this post are written by me. The contents are the product of my mental labour. They express my knowledge and inner convictions about the various topics I have written on.

2. Choose your niche carefully: A niche is a blogging term which means the key subject or theme your blog is about. It describes the problem your blog solves for your readers. Example of blog niches include, news and entertainment, personal development, health, relationship, travelling, fashion and so on. Taiwoemayosan.com , is in the personal development niche. Don’t just create your blog and keep churning out random posts on various subjects. Many bloggers are guilty of this, and this practice has great negative effects on such blog. Let your blog be a "go to" for a specific problem. This will help you in two ways, first your blog will position you as an authority in your unique niche, and second, it will make the monetization of the blog easy.
When choosing your niche, consider a subject you know so much and passionate about. It has to be that way because blogging is a marathon not a sprint. You may have to do it for many years; your passion for the subject you love is the only thing that can keep you going. I decided to choose the personal development niche because of my knowledge in that area and my passion to help people succeed. No wonder the tagline of taiwoemayosan.com is success tools for smart people.

3. Consider an evergreen niche: I decided to add this because it is very important. An evergreen niche is a niche that does not get obsolete or outdated. Articles written under such niche will ever remain relevant till the world ends. Most of the things written on personal development will always remain relevant because human nature does not change. Man needs will always remain the same for generations, but the means of solving them may change from time to time. The news and entertainment niche is ephemeral. News that is relevant today will no longer be relevant in the next few months. So if you stop blogging, after a while, your blog will remain irrelevant because it is not up to date. If you want to build a high traffic website that will keep being relevant even after you are gone, then consider a niche whose content will be ever green.

3. Get your domain name from the beginning: Most bloggers started blogging using free platforms such as blogger(), wordpress etc. Each of these platforms will offer you subdomain, eg yourname..com for blogger and yourname. for wordpress. Many bloggers continue using this free subdomain for their blogging for a very long period of time. I suggest that you get your own domain name right from day 1, don’t settle for subdomain name. Having your own domain name will make your readers perceive you as a serious blogger and your domain name will stand as a unique brand when your blog becomes popular. It is generally believe as at the time of writing this post that Google rarely approve blogs with the default blogger sub-domain for Adsense. Now imagine you have been blogging for a while using the blogger sub-domain, wanted to sign up for the adsense program only to be turned down. To increase your chances of getting approved, you will definitely want to buy your own domain name. One thing is that Google rarely approve domain name that is less than six month for adsense, though this restriction is only for bloggers in some countries. If you happen to be from one of those countries, you may have to wait for six months after buying your domain name before you can apply for google adsense. Buying your own domain name is one thing you have to consider and act on as you kick start you blogging career.
When selecting your domain, select a name that is relevant to what your blog is going to be about. For example when you see domain names like www.love.com, www.success.com, www.sex.com you can easily imagine what the blogs are about.
Also you need to select a short name that people can remember easily. I choose taiwoemayosan.com as my domain name because I am using my blog to promote my brand(Taiwo Emayosanlomo)that is why it does not depict what my blog is all about. My goal is that when people hear taiwoemayosan.com, I want success coaching and personal development to be what they will think about. It is so, because of my purpose of blogging. You can check for the availability of your domain name and purchase them on websites like godaddy, namecheap, domainking etc

4. Be familiar with blogging terms: One thing you need to do as you kick start your blog is to try to learn the basic blogging terms and how they determine your blogging success. Some of the terms include, traffic, seo, links, blog promotion, guest post and so. Studying about blogging generally will help you to know many terms that are associated with blogging. Don’t just learn these terms; also learn how you can use them to grow your blog.

5. Start writing blog post in advance: Having defined your blog niche, it is essential that you start writing your blog post. Don’t wait until the day you create your blog before you start writing. I suggest you have at least 20 blog post ready before you launch your blog.

6. Hire an expert to design your blog: As an individual who is new to blogging, you may not know how to design a blog that will make your readers come back. I suggest you consult an expert who can design a beautiful blog for you. How your blog looks can make or mar it. When you have great content on your blog on an eye-catching design, nothing will stop readers from coming back to your blog. Don’t put great content on a mediocre design.

7. Get a good laptop and mobile phone: Two basic tools you will need for success in blogging is a good laptop and mobile phone, or anything that can serve the purpose of these two. You need a good laptop or tablet device to write and edit your blog post. With your mobile phone you can easily interact with your readers e.g. answer their questions and respond to their comments. When you lack these two devices, blogging will be tough for you.

8. You need a stable income: If your goal of blogging is to generate income, it is important to know that you will need money to put body and soul together before your blog start generating money. Blogging is not a get rich quick method. You will need to give, invest over and over before you start reaping the fruit of your labour. This may take several months and in some cases years. Some people who are new to blogging have the notion that blogging is a get rich quick method, with this on their mind; they quit blogging after a short period of time when they fail to get the kind of result they envisage.

Also there are cases when some people can no longer blog simply because their laptop is damaged and they have no money to fix it or buy another. You should also have it in mind that that you are going to be spending so much on data to connect to the internet. All these require money. Having a source of income will enable you to put things right when they go wrong.

9. Be ready to write lengthy and great content: The bottom line of blogging is to provide valuable information for your readers. To be a successful blogger you must prepare your mind to provide rich and valuable information to your readers. You must be willing to write on the average 700 words article on every topic you choose to write about. This post you are reading contains over 1600 words. My average post contains 1000 words. Everyone who is not new to the blogging system must have come across this saying “content is king” severally. When you post valuable content on regular basis, your readers will keep coming back for more. They will tell other people about your blog and before you know it, you will start seeing massive traffic coming to read your content.

10. Access to electricity: It is important to inform you that for you to become a successful blogger, you need constant access to electricity. As a blogger, you need to write and publish articles regularly on your blog. To achieve this, you need your laptop to be powered on regular basis; failure to have access to electricity can crumble or alter the growth of your blog. In Nigeria for instance, lack of access to stable power supply is one of the major challenges bloggers are experiencing.

Source:www.taiwoemayosan.com/2016/05/10-blogging-success-secrets-for.html?m=1

ceecia:
Please review this blog ceeceesblog.com

Your blog is a nice one. The mobile view is great, and it loads very fast. To increase your traffic, write more quality content and publish new post at least twice a week, and try to market your content as well, I mean you should let people see your blog post by sharing on social media.

VocalWalls:
Nice.

Also, be careful where you lift images from.

My images are from pixabay.com

Charleschidera:
I guess you are talking about mine blog right?

I will try to fix it soon

Yes

VocalWalls:
Nice one. I knew that space wasn't normal. Please upload a screen shot of what it looks like.

And those Arabs, they are all looking for backlinks with keywords, please delete so Google doesn't think your site is some black hat stuff.

I still dey trip for your speed.

Then, Your domain name, it's hard to remember, except by friends.


www.vocalwalls.com

The domain name is www.taiwoemayosan.com I chose that cos the blog is to be used to promote my name as a brand. That name won't be a big deal if my blog becomes popular. Imagine the name of that bread seller turned a supermodel, olajumoke Oris.... Yet people has learned the name. See the blog header below.

VocalWalls:
Get rid of this space, I was waiting for the blog to load, didn't know it already had.

It's also very fast.

Many of those comments you have are spam, delete them before you get a red flag as a spam site.

You should be able to tell spam from real comments.

Check mine...

www.vocalwalls.com

Ur design is nice. It loads very fast and the contents are well arranged.

VocalWalls:
Get rid of this space, I was waiting for the blog to load, didn't know it already had.

It's also very fast.

Many of those comments you have are spam, delete them before you get a red flag as a spam site.

You should be able to tell spam from real comments.

Check mine...

www.vocalwalls.com

Thanks for the review I have seen your comment already. As for the pix u uploaded, I guess you check the blog with Ur recently updated uc browser. Try other other browsers. I don't know why the header is not displaying on the latest version of uc browser. I will delete those comments that are spam.

lakes99:
you have a well arranged blog, fast to load on pc n mobile..............thumbs up!bro



help review my own blog......if u spot anytin ...........i need a honest review
thanks

Thanks for your review, your blog is cool tool. Your template is highly responsive. It may not work well with opera mini. I suggest you get your own domain name.

Your blog loads very fast and the template is nice. You need to set it to view as desktop on mobile. If you do so it will stop displaying like blogger default template on mobile.

mokoshalb:
very nice template, cool arrangements from you, I love your load speed, keep it up!

Thanks bro.

mainevibez:
design like?

A good design. Go for a good template.

mokoshalb:
yeah, I understand you, that why I said that is the maximum possible traffic you can get in your niche...
The best way to get traffic on your niche is to run ads, (must be well targetted).... or you include other niche, they are other giants blogs on ur niche, all ranking first page on google....so to thrive will be an enormous task...

Mokoshalb, pls help me review www.taiwoemayosan.com

mainevibez:
plz how can i add contact us,and others to my blog...

also review mine...www.mainevibez..com

You need to work on your design, get a dot com domain to replace the sub domain.
As for contact us, go to your blogger dashboard and create page for your blog. The basic pages you need include about us, contact us, and privacy policy.

My blog needs traffic and I will appreciate your review www.taiwoemayosan.com

bedfordng:
blog is not bad on mobile. Did not have the opportunity to check it on pc though

Thanks.

cruzita:
this one all start with *thou* ,na commandment

I chose to adopt that style.

Among so many questions in the world today is how can one attain the state of happiness? Many in search for happiness have made effort to acquire wealth, fame and power, but the irony is that despite being in possession of these things they are still not happy. In this blog post I am going to expose you to the basic rules that govern true happiness. Now let’s go there.


Happiness is defined as an emotion experienced when in a state of well-being. It is a state that anyone can attain irrespective of one’s circumstances. However for one to attain or experience happiness one must understand the rules of happiness and how one can enjoy being happy spontaneously. The basic requirement is the ability to create conditions that will put you in a state of well-being which bring about happiness, and that is what the rules in this post are based on.

To attain the state of happiness, I am persuaded that the following rules will be of help.

1. Thou shall be contented with what you have: The number one rule of happiness is contentment. Having a great wealth does not guarantee happiness, what brings happiness is your contentment with the little or much that you have. No matter how wealthy you are, if you are not satisfied or contented with what you have, happiness will elude you. When it comes to prosperity, we have the natural inclination to keep seeking. An author rightly put it this way that “it is really exciting to get something new, but the excitement always wear off after a while..... the new desire is always more important than the stuff you already have.” Buddha understands this rule when he said; health is the greatest gift,
Contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. My blog post on why success does not guarantee a lasting happiness explains this better.

2. Thou shall practice win-win relationship. To truly be happy, you must inculcate win-win in all your deals with people. Win-win is a form of interaction or relationship where you benefit and the other person benefits too. Cutting corners, outsmarting and taking advantage of others is the common practice today. Trying to outsmart others may give you temporary pleasure in the now but it can bring you untold pain and hardship in the future. Such behavior can also lead to anxiety, guilt and restlessness of the mind. There is no way you can be happy with these negative emotions occupying your mind.

3. Thou shall be stable financially: I have heard times without number that money cannot buy happiness. The truth is that, that statement is not completely true. You need financial stability to be happy. Most of the pains we go through in life are the result of lack of money to solve certain problem.
We become happy when we achieve our goals and vice versa. The truth is that certain goals can never be achieved without money and for as long as the goal is unrealized we will remain unhappy. Muyiwa Afolabi, Nigerian career and business coach put it this way “money can’t buy happiness, but it can sponsor your dreams and finance your purpose which eventually will make you happy.” I am of the opinion that everyone who truly want to be happy should strive toward financial stability. Having money to live your dream will save you from so many ills that can create sorrow in your life.

4. Thou shall accept life as it is: Accepting life as it is, is one of the basic rules you need to be happy. We are all complete strangers in this world. Like the good singer composed, “the world is not my own, I am just passing through”. You were not here at a time and a time will come when you will be no more. If you must experience happiness in your short stay in this world, you need to accept life as it is. Most often, we are tempted to wish or desire that life operates in certain way, e.g. being in a Garden of Eden and having all your needs met without any struggle. The reality is that life does not work like that. ........
To continue follow this link www.taiwoemayosan.com/2016/05/top-13-unbeatable-rules-for-happiness.html?m=1

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rIaYoll:
I am not a webmaster but your blog is nice and unique,fast to load and great topics....i even registered to receive regular updates but the name is too long and easy to forget...
Keep it up

Thanks for your review. The name is my name+mysurname that is the why it is long.Also thanks for your subscription.

Are there no more webmasters in this forum?

A kingdom divided against itself can never stand.

Most politicians say and do things not because they want the good of the masses, but to promote their own interest and enrich their own pocket.

Hmmm

The politicians are only fighting for their own pocket. You think they care about you? They only fight for things that favour them.

Please review www.taiwoemayosan.com It is a blog on personal development,success tips, motivation and so on