The Key to a Successful Blogging Career… Patience!
Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Jim under Blogging 101, Guest BloggersMelvin is the owner of The Melvin Blog. A blog all about internet marketing and making money online. Follow Melvin by visiting his site and subscribing to his feed.
Nowadays, it’s no secret that you can make money online blogging. In fact, just look at how many blogs we have now talking about making money online. But anyway, most are just stupid to think that by talking about making money online, they can make money online. Honestly, if you look at most “make money online” bloggers nowadays, they just run a blog hoping to make money by talking how they can make money online… but the truth is they never have any idea how to really make money themselves. Sorry for ranting!
Now, I just feel that I have to talk about a thing that most people don’t really get about having a successful blog. By saying successful, it means that it isn’t just about the income it generates. If you look at the successful bloggers today, shoemoney, johnchow, darren rowse and etc, many like to duplicate what they have done and have those people as their inspiration. But how did they really reach that lofty stature? Ok, I hate to give thrillers and drumrolls… so I’ll say it, patience!
The Number One Quality in Successful Bloggers… Patience!
Of course there are other reasons like, expertise, humor, perseverance and more… but honestly, I am surprised at how many people don’t see the value of patience. Look at what all those bloggers I have mentioned have in common… it is that they are blogging for more than 3 and 1/2 years now. 3 years is a very long time, and they are still alive and kicking. Another thing is to try to look at their archives, let’s take ProBlogger for example. You can see that he has started out writing “high-quality” content, even when he was just getting started… but he 
didn’t have any comments for at least the first 100 posts. I mean, can you see it? I’m sure it’s hard to swallow writing a post for an hour or two… having no one care to say their piece on it. But taking this into account, look how famous he is now!
You can say the same with others. Shoemoney wrote about his ramblings before, and no one really cared about them… but now he writes his ramblings, and look at how many comments he gets! In all, it looks like sometimes… we just have to be patient with things. Most modern bloggers start their blog and get quite excited with it (which there is nothing wrong with). After three months, if they see that no one is interested in commenting and reading… then they might want to call it quits already! If your blog is not getting what you think it should be getting… simply work harder. It might not work for the first few months… but believe me, it will make sense for the long run. Sometimes, we all need to look past what is happening in the short term, and focus in on the long run. Besides, what do you think is the first thing that makes a site successful and popular? The answer is so simple. It is because they have been there, hanging in for a long time
-The Net Fool
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Great post Melvin! So many new bloggers expect to be an instant success and quit to early because it requires hard work.
Thats what makes us special isn’t it?= )
True enough. Most newbies do not realize that patience is actually the secret of all successful bloggers nowadays. Admittedly, I, myself has struggled to release myself from that wrong thinking and believed instead that one of these days, my own blog will be noticed and treat as important. Well said Jim. Looking forward for your next post.
Hello TNF and Melvin!
I also think that Patience is the key to a successful Blogging Career. If John Chow for example didn’t have patience, then today, we would be like: “Who in the blue hell is John Chiwawa, or whatever his last name is”
PS. No offense to the great blogger John Chow.
Ok at least I am feeling better after reading this. I am always wondering why I don’t get as many subscribers or things like that and I thought its something wrong with my content. Well.. maybe it takes time to reach out to people!
hey, I appreciate you feel better after reading this…
What an awesome post that was. It proves that you have been through your struggle time and now you are successful.
Melvin, HATS OFF to you. I am sure that it will be soon seen that other bloggers are writing such posts with you being the example instead of Darren, John and Jeremy.
I have again got inspired. These are one of those inspirational posts that are very rarely come.
Regards
Laksh
This is funny because I just visited Melvin’s blog and read about the contest that he will be throwing. It shows that he is getting off to a fast start for the new year by putting his plans into action.
Great encouragement. It is important to look at the past of some of the bigs guys to understand that they started just like you are I…though they may be a little smarter than me!
Brilliant post as usual Jim!
I think too many people expect an instant cash flow, especially in niches like MMO
Net Fool,
I couldn’t agree with your POV more. I think the patience is important not only in the blogging world but really in any money making endeavor or any business. You can’t just open up shop and expect the cash to come flowing in. Success time hard work and requires patience.
PS: I subscribed via email. Do I get a free E-book?
Thanks for posting this guest post Jim.
Basically I just feel my blog is not a make money online and internet marketing blog. 
I totally agree with you. Personally, I left blogging after 4 months of blogging and after a year, I blog again and regretted for quitting.
Hi Melvin,
You are right about it, I had a blog 5 months old, and it took me those long 5 months to get PR3 and Alexa 182,565, and some comments, but my subscriptions were not so good as I want it.
Thanks to remind us all, Patience it is the only way to Succeed.
Whilst all that is true, one thing you have to remember is that those guys have been at it for years and entered the ‘blogging’ market before blogging was the rage it is today. This in essence reinforces your argument as bloggers of today need a whole lot more patience than those of old.
Patience is key. All too often, people think that it will happen overnight. But that is never the case, unless perhaps you have excellent connections and lots of experience from running some other successful blog.
I also think Patience is the key for a successful blogger. But, I’m always impatient
It is time that this truth about blogs on making money online was published. You are absolutely right that most of them just talk. Patience is a much underrated value and you have done the right thing highlighting the need for it.
Nice post Melvin however this idea is also becoming congested. Way too many MMO bloggers are writing post complaining all the other MMO bloggers who don’t know what they’re talking about. That’s why I went into the Blogging Tips niche, it’s alot cleaner, and has a lot less spammers. It’s pretty easy to make the switch as well.
Also I would add, patience is important, but knowledge is as well. Not everybody can make money online, you need to know or have the time to learn it. Patience combined with knowledge is the winning combination.
yeah, its a 1-2 punch combination…
Blog quantity and quality can only be maintained by patience. That’s true.
i’ve been blogging for a few years but haven’t really gotten anywhere with it yet because i made ALL the mistakes at first. blog domain changed a few times (from blogger to typepad to now a self-hosted domain that will not change). i’m pleased with the progress and the blog is just now starting to get some regular readers. but with a social/political blog, you don’t really have a “product”, all you can hope for income-wise is to generate enough traffic to make ads worthwhile on the blog. and with the economy in its present state, i don’t see a whole lot of ad money getting thrown around on the internet in the next year. sigh.
Obviously Patience must be there for every thing including Blogging. Patience also shows whether you are a pro or not.
Great insights! Today’s microwave and “get rich quick” society has it all wrong. I recently posted about the Chinese Bamboo Tree and the T-I-M-E it takes to grow. Success is the same way. Our society spends too much time celebrating people who have “made it’s” achievements and too little time celebrating the PROCESS it took for them to get there. Reading biographies of great people helps put things in perspective.
Hello Jim,
I am really inspired by your words. I have come to know about a great blogger real life experience. In fact I am also in a situation hoping too many things at the very early stage though I know the fact. This message works better than many good suggestions on blogging.
Thanks, you have really alarmed my thoughts.
STUMBLED!
This is a lesson I learned early on, especially waiting for traffic and backlinks.
Preaching about patience is almost like a old and tired sermon these days, people want quick results and most of the time no one ever has any patience anymore.
We have Tivo because people don’t want to watch the commercials so they’ll speed through the commercials in order to watch their favorite shows in one straight sitting. We have prerelease date movies so that people can get in on catching a flick a day or two earlier than the rest of the population, remember the Dark Knight people were lining up at midnight to catch the first showing and even skipped work rather than go after work to view Batman.
We have microwaves to cook faster, laptops constantly upgraded with faster processors, and we don’t read news we want it in video format. Patience is a definite virtue and a lesson many need to learn. Some could argue the current financial crisis with the credit crisis and housing crisis were all the result of greed and a lack of patience.
People were charging their cards, as usual, for items that they wanted such as iPhones because it came out a few weeks before their income came in, and they did this for most all of their purchases. People who knew they couldn’t afford a home purchased one anyway when ARM and subprime mortgages were available because they didn’t want to go the traditional route. Patience is a traditional route and the cowboys of Wall Street shunned patience. But I like what you wrote because I agree with anything great needs time.
Good work Melvin! You are outclass many bloggers out there and I see your are opening a make money online coaching program.. good job! You are my hero! I will be following you. Have twitter?
I don’t have a coaching program… I don’t know wht you’re talking about.. You can have me as you’re hero by paying me $500..
I think here is nice tips for making money online.
Thanks buddy for guide me.
Thats a kind of useful book its such i agree patience must be for success.
Actual knowledge in the chosen niche wouldn’t be a bad idea either
Patience is the best thing anyone can have. It really get the best out of you.
Patience is a virtue and I think this is a great tip for succeeding in any kind of business. You have to sit through and follow even when your going through hard times.
Theirs days when I feel like what I’m doing is amazing and I’m going to get somewhere and then there’s day where I feel like I’m going no where.
Let me just say that usually the good days out number the bad days the longer you stick with it.
I keep listening to the news speak about getting free online grant applications so I have been looking around for the best site to get one.