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I have a Blog, What should I do Next?

February 19, 2010 - Last Modified: September 15, 2010 by wannabe

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There you are, you have your blog up and running for just a few weeks or months. Your blog layout looks great, you managed to have a few guest articles published on other blogs and gained backlinks … but … traffic is still very slow. And because of this, you might start to lose interest, because things are not moving fast enough any longer or even worse … you might end up having no more creativity and risking having your blog fading away into anonymity. What can you do?

The amount of articles explaining how SEO (Search Engine Optimization), having more backlinks and other very important stuff to gain more traffic, on the internet  is endless. It seems that for every question there is an answer …

But what if you tried everything and you are just not succeeding … what the heck can you do now?

If you look at your blogging endeavor from a business perspective you can say that you are on the verge of bankruptcy, losing everything you worked hard for. Small companies who are facing a similar prospective have a few options left, there is one that I would like to discuss with you here.

Collaboration

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Did you ever consider teaming up with a blog that has very similar ideas? I know you are after world domination all by yourself, so am I 😉 … but sometimes working together to achieve a common goal is the only solution. And besides, there is nothing wrong with collaboration, there is an ocean of good business minded people like yourself who may be happy to collaborate with you.

Collaborative efforts with other blogs can be valuable and can have many advantages. However, there are a few things you need to consider before entering into any type of collaborative relationship. You want to ensure that when you enter into a collaborative relationship, it is a win-win situation. You also need to formulate a plan, agree both on it in writing, stick to it and go after world domination together. Another benefit is you will have someone there that will get you on your feet when you feel like doing little … for example; when you go to the gym alone, you can decide to stay at home or go to the gym … BUT if you workout with a buddy, you have an obligation. Another bonus is that two minds can come up with a lot more ideas than a single mind, and last but not least you have someone that you can discuss your strategy with.

Working with another person adds something to yourself. Think of knowledge, networking, skills or personal qualities.

  • Two heads are better than one
  • The sum is greater than the parts
  • Union is strength
  • Achieve synergy
  • One-stop-shopping (Sharing content to widen your market reach)

Or on a more strategic perspective you could consider collaboration for:

Strategic Alliances

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You can collaborate on all levels or limit the collaboration to certain areas. You could consider working together for technological advancement (Layout, PHP programming etc.) or to share content, enrich each other.

  • Together you can response faster to market developments and trends
  • Enter new markets or develop a new combined effort market
  • New PMC’s (product-market combinations) developed jointly and put in the market
  • Scaling / profit improvement
  • Share research or investment costs
  • Expanding hardware capacity

Additional considerations

Of course there are also angles one should consider carefully before teaming up. The two of you should think alike, have the same priorities and make strong agreements. You should beware for people that are dishonest and those who are after anything but a true and solid collaboration, but that is a risk every businessman is facing.

Successful cooperation with a partner

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Before collaborating you should ask yourself important questions:

  • Do I know what I want to achieve with my blog (vision)?
  • Do my partner and I share the same visions for the future?
  • Can we achieve our common goal within our limits?

Conclusion

Teaming up with another blog also gives a lot of new perspectives, and maybe this is the next step for blogs to discover. Nowadays, more and more people want their information in shorter packages, and now that twitter is well established the articles are limited to 160 characters. Furthermore, a lot of people own a Smartphone and use it to browse the web while they are commuting. In short, minimization has arrived, in terms of information 😉 Perhaps teaming with other blogs and build some sort of new social network where every blog keeps its own identity but allow visitors to communicate through the blogs with other blogs, and share anything they want, is the future of blogs.

One thing I know for sure, people want the information they are after faster and faster and their identity on the internet is becoming more important every day.

But before I start dreaming more and get way off topic, let’s stick to my initial topic for now. Teaming up with other blogs, is this a possibility and what are the advantages and the disadvantages?

I look forward to read your thoughts.

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{ 14 Responses }

  1. CJ says:
    Man, when I first started my blog, I absolutely had no idea what I was doing. Collaborating with other bloggers though, was the best decision I ever made. Trying to do it all through SEO just isn't going to cut it these days. CJ CJ's last blog ..Pay Per Click Kind of Sucks Or Kind of Rocks... What Do You Think?
  2. Pubudu Kodikara says:
    I had the same problem when i started my blog! I think we all should read your post before starting a blog! :D nice post mate :D .-= Pubudu Kodikara´s last blog ..Ubuntu : How to Change the Profile Picture and Password =-.
  3. Sire says:
    A great article and I would say the hardest point to achieve is to find someone that you can team up with. You want to make sure they can consistently pull their own weight because you don't want to be doing most of the work while they get dragged along. If you can find the right partner, then there is nowhere to go but up :) .-= Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..Release The Child In You And Become A Better Blogger =-.
  4. Simon says:
    Some great advice, important thing is to keep going and just see where everything goes. I need to network a bit more, but I find that writing for the website should come first and then I have no time to do the 'other stuff'. Luckily I have planned ahead this week and written two weeks worth of posts, so each evening I can now network :)
  5. Latief says:
    Interesting about this collaboration. I think its great when two or more blogger with the same niche create a collaboration but they have their own unique interest. That will make the blog special and big in the short time. As you said, its hard to build a collaboration like that but worth to try bro. Anyone want to collaborate with me? :D .-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..Blog Progress =-.
  6. Dana says:
    You get the best colaboration if you and your partner have same vision but different expertise which able to fill each others gap. .-= Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..How To Give Back The Vote Favor In Blog Engage =-.
  7. wannabe says:
    Thanks for the nice feedback :-) I haven't been around in the blogosphere for a long time, i started just under a month ago with www.wannabemillionaire.com. Nevertheless, I believe that blogging in its current state, starts to get outdated. Social networking is the next big thing, even Google is trying to get into social networking. They are attempting to do so for one big reason .. money. Collaborating, and then in particular: giving our 'fans' the opportunity to build their social network around their favorite blog, with a facebook kind of interface or something similar, in which they can connect to other blogs and share content and what not ... Check out http://buddypress.org/ .. i am not affiliated with it :-) but you can grasp the idea what I am trying to explain. I would like to discover the possibilities of collaborating blogs. .-= wannabe´s last blog ..Creating backlinks with a Press release =-.
  8. Onibalusi Bamidele says:
    This is really a great post, networking is important for the success of new blogs.
  9. Jewelry Secrets says:
    So true. (except Twitter is 140 characters) I would love to group together with like bloggers and help everyone out... but that's my problem. I can't find anyone who blogs about the topics I do. In my niche it seems like they just want to sell, not blog. I'm still looking for my network. Someday...
  10. Ed says:
    Great post. My friend recently started a blog and he needs to read this. .-= Ed´s last blog ..Google Wave Contest =-.
  11. Tom says:
    I agree. Ithink that vision has to be aligned with any potential strategic alliances or partners. I am currently working on building relationships with a couple of bloggers as I think it will be these stronger relationships that will really catapult my blogs success. .-= Tom@Free Squeeze Pages´s last blog ..The Aweber Code….And Why You Need To Promote It! =-.

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