145 Reasons To Blog

145 Reasons To Blog

Today people from all age groups, from 6 to 96 are into blogging. At the same time, some of us have the fancy idea of blogging or becoming a blogger but never really get around achieving this goal or realizing this dream, which makes it remain just a wishful thinking. If you are one such slow starter and if you are still not sure whether you should blog or if you do not find adequate reasons why you should blog, here are 145 reasons to blog. Not all the reasons may be applicable to you but you will surely find more than a couple of reasons to blog.

Personal Branding Reasons For Blogging

1. To showcase your personal profile.
2. To let the world know of your special skills and talents.
3. To create a personal brand around you.
4. To improve your personal online visibility.
5. To make valuable content that you wrote appear when people search your name online.
6. To project an authoritative image about yourself in your niche market.
7. To become popular.
8. To secure your own space on the internet.
9. To create opportunities for yourself - by creating useful blog posts, you will get noticed and people will approach you asking to write about their products or services. You can gain visibility in the press.
10. If you are a writer, you need a space to showcase your writing skills and can there be a better place than a blog to do this?

Business Branding Reasons For Blogging

11. To sell your products.
12. To sell your services.
13. To increase your brand’s visibility online.
14. Improves your brand’s or personal credibility when you provide resourceful blog articles to the world.
15. Top brands are looking for your blog to promote their products and services so should you be.
16. Write at this moment, thousands of people are searching for information on the topic on which you are writing.
17. To generate new leads.
18. To create useful content around your brand.
19. To keep your customers well informed about your products and services.
20. To create good brand reputation online.
21. To fight negative reputation online.
22. To make information about your products, services and brands easily accessible to your target audience.
23. To give correct information about your brand, products and services.
24. Build a rapport with your customers or target audience.
25. To get the feedback and comments about your products or services.
26. To feel the pulse of your target audience or customers.
27. To reduce the virtual element about your online brand.
28. To get closer to your target audience by opening up a discussion with your brand.
29. To educate your target audience about your latest products and services.
30. To drive targeted traffic to your website.
31. To make people share your brand related information in the social media sites.
32. To secure your space in the social media sites.
33. To make people link to your content.
34. To improve brand loyalty.
35. To influence your customers to make buying decisions that are favorable to your brand.
36. To cut down your online marketing expenses as blogging is more cost effective marketing strategy and it produces lasting results.

Customer Support Reasons For Blogging

37. To provide customer support.
38. To address various issues and concerns of your customers in a friendly and less rigid fashion.
39. To use it as a databank where your customers can find resourceful information on troubleshooting, installation, etc.

SEO Reasons For Blogging

40. You need plenty of content to get top ranking in Google.
41. To please Google.
42. To use it as link baits.
43. To target top keywords to attract prospective customers.
44. Blogging help you attract a decent percentage of organic traffic.
45. Gives your website higher number of indexed pages.

Personal Development Reasons For Blogging

46. To spend your free time in a useful way.
47. To meet like-minded people online.
48. To prepare yourself as a great writer.
49. You can tell the world about the things that you like.
50. You can share with the internet community about the things that you do not like.
51. To make a journal of how your views change overtime.
52. To save yourself from addictions – you can start writing something when you feel choked by your cravings.
53. To organize your own ideas and thoughts.
54. To gain clarity on your own thinking. When you put things in writing, you tend to think more systematically and clearly.
55. Forces you to read regularly to keep yourself up to date so that you can post useful blogs.
56. To keep yourself active.
57. To keep your brain from rusting.
58. To post your new insights on a topic or on your pet theme.

Hobby Reasons For Blogging

59. To document the growth of your bonsai.
60. To share with the world your talents.
61. To showcase the work of your hand.
62. To share your collections such as the collection of stamps, coins, plants, etc.
63.  

Family Reasons For Blogging

64. To share the arrival of the newborn baby and its daily growth factors.
65. To connect with the different members of your family when you are spread far and wide across the globe.

Social Reasons For Blogging

66. To get the attention of the public about the importance of recycling.
67. To create awareness among people on the importance of going green.
68. To emphasize the need to make responsible use of the modern gadgets.
69. To create awareness about global warming.
70. To improve awareness about breast cancer.
71. To gather people in your community for a social cause.
72. To create awareness about air pollution and its negative impacts.

Teaching Reasons For Blogging

73. To tutor your students – you can create simple lessons each in the form of a short blog posts.  
74. To create ‘how to’ guides.
75. To create step-by-step tutorials on things that you know.
76. To create awareness about a topic, idea or a cause.

Fund Raising Reasons For Blogging

77. To support the poor in your community.
78. To raise funds for your church.

Altruistic Reasons For Blogging

79. To help others.
80. To enthuse others.
81. To make the web more resourceful place by sharing your knowledge and expertise on your area of specialization.

Monetary Reasons For Blogging

82. To use it as a secondary source of income.
83. To make some extra money to fund your vacation.
84. To make money to fund your father’s operation.
85. To make money to buy a nice gift for your loved one/s.
86. To save money by diverting the cravings to shop, to visit a bar or play casino into positive writing energy. You can even make money on how to stay away from addictions.

Emotional Reasons For Blogging

87. To use it as a journal of happiness – sharing a post when you are happy writing about why you are happy.
88. To use it as a journal of frustration – sharing a post when you are frustrated writing about why you are frustrated.
89. To use it as a journal of blues – sharing a post when you are sad or depressed writing about why you are depressed or sad.
90. To share your ideas or how you feel about something.
91. To let the world know what good stuff you are.
92. To remain connected with the world.
93. To encourage people to think like you.

Reviews And Feedbacks

94. To let the world know about bad service providers and poor brands.
95. To tell the world how much you liked a product or service.
96. To tell the world how bad or horrible a particular product or service is.
97. To rate different products or services.
98. To share your experience using a particular product or service.
99. To make a brand improve their products or services.

News

100. To share the latest happenings in your niche market.
101. To share the developments in your community or neighborhood.
102. To share the latest happenings in your school or college.

Justice

103. To share your side of the story.
104. To tell the world how you were made a victim of injustice.
105. To bring to light the mal practices of authorities.

Life

106. To recuperate from a breakup.
107. To recuperate from the loss of a loved one.
108. To recuperate from the loss of wealth.
109. To recuperate from the loss of your job.
110. To share your joy of finding the love of your life.
111. To share your joy of finding your dream job.

Making Connections

112. To find new connections online.
113. To attract like-minded people.
114. To create a forum or a group of enthusiasts that like your ideas.
115. To grow your network of followers.

Improving Writing Skills

116. To practice your writing skills.
117. To improve your command over the language.
118. To learn to use various writing techniques to convey your message effectively.
119. To get feedback on your writing.

Gathering Views

120. To get opinion about your views and ideas online allowing commenting in your blogs but first you need to blog.
121. To understand test the waters on what kind of response your ideas are receiving.

To Get Things Fast

122. To get employed fast.
123. To get your dream job fast.
124. To reach the word about yourself, your brand products or services fast.

Simply because …

125. It is free and costs just your time.
126. It lets you leave a positive trail about yourself on the web.
127. The world needs your blog.
128. Almost 40% of the world’s population is using the internet and blogging is best way to reach out.
129. Remaining 60% of the population is slowly joining the web savvy crowd.
130. To show others that blogging is for everyone, if you can do it everyone else too should also be able to do it.
131. Each one of us have our own pet ideas and themes to talk about and so do you.
132. Simply because you enjoy blogging.
133. Simply because you want to be part of the band, in which everyone is blogging.
134. Simply because you have so much to share with the world on so many topics.
135. Simply because it is so easy to blog.

Statistical Reasons For Blogging

136. More than 80% of the internet users consider suggestions, tips and advices on the blogs highly credible and trust them.
137. Over 90% of the brands that engage in aggressive blogging efforts enjoy higher lead generation rates.
138. Almost 70% of the B2B leads are generated through some form of blogging efforts.
139. More than 80% of the companies that make use of blogs find them very useful.
140. Blog posting is one of the top three content marketing strategies used by B2B operations.
141. Over 70% of the consumers prefer to read blogs to know more about a company rather than viewing ads forced on to them.
142. More than 63% of the customers get a positive image about a company after reading branded content in the blogs.
143. Average blogging income earned by full time bloggers is approximately $25,000 per year.
144. Almost 2,000,000 blog posts are made daily.
145. More than 90% of the bloggers link their social media efforts with blogging in some way or the other.