Shine with your blogging persona!!

Hi guys what’s happening? It is been awhile since New Year and now we are already passed the first half of this month. How is the blog you are passionate to setup going? Are you a self-hosted or using a sub-domain blogger? Have you decided what blogging platform for your blogging journey? Well if you got the answers for the 2 questions as mentioned this post is about to assist you in discovering your own style or persona.

“Why is this important to you?” you asked, well it actually helps you in focusing the content and produce a certain pattern of approaching a topic, by having a persona and applying it, you will attract targeted audience who will like your blog posts faster because people are not going to just read a bunch of text, they love to read text with characteristic and the characteristic is set by you.

I have compiled a list of blogging style or persona below, I hope you can relate as you go through and hopefully discover your writing persona, happy discovering!

A tutor blogger

"Alright the first step to do this....."

A tutor blogger is like a teacher in a specific area of knowledge, these blogger teaches stuffs online for free (mostly)!!! You will need them when you are stuck in let say, “How to not messed up during a date?” try do a quick search in google and they will be there for you.

Basically there are the “How-to” type of people ranging from professional to normal who thought what they learnt may be useful to someone like us somewhere and anytime. So if you have experience something with solutions and wanted to share, you might be one of this type of persona.

A reviewer blogger

"Hmm... ratings, ratings and ratings"

These blogger are mostly an early adopter in any industry, games, movies, food, gadgets etc. they tried the product and examined it in detail, come out with pros and cons, report, and ratings as well depending the individual approach.

You can easily find them to know something new in market, if you search a movie in youtube, you might stumble upon some suggestion video of a movie reviewer. They might also be very specific in certain genre in a category, some blogger only review action movies and some only review horror movies.

An opinion blogger

"In my humble opinion, I think that....."

An opinion blogger is a type of blogger who target certain topics with their opinions back with true facts, a good opinion blogger will attract a lot of readers online because opinion blog posts represent readers’ voice, reader follow them to get insight of the opinion and they discuss their opinion below the comment, a 2 ways communication, provide more interactivities than a single read and receive state.

Have an opinion to tell and looking for people to discuss it? You are obviously an opinion blogger.

A reporter blogger

"Bring you guys the latest news of all times"

A reporter blogger reports a current trends or a current news in their post, it might be local or international news or trends, topic can range from political to entertainment genre, basically they serves as a readers’ personal news reporter, any update will be inform as soon as possible to their readers.

If you like to provide the latest gossip, topics, news or even pop songs to keep your readers up to date, you may fit in to this persona.

A professional blogger

Normally pros do not have faces..... Because they are pros that's why

They also known as a niche blogger who write blogs about a niche market (product aimed at satisfying specific market needs). A professional blogger’s ultimate goal is to make money with blogging, not to say the example above do not have the potential to make money but it is the professional blogger’s intention at the first place, they meant to sell certain products to readers.

Often companies will hire them for product launching and they will come out a blog about it for their readers, more like a reviewer but their focus is to sell the product, their blog will have advertisements or pay-per-click banners. If you wanted to be a full time blogger, this will be your direction.

A hobby or personal blogger

"Today I met a friendly friend who avoids me"

They often treat their blog like a diary of their life, what they encountered, when they slept, where they went, how they learn certain skills, most blogger start off as one and then time will tell whether they are one of the above persona, of course some will still stay to be a hobby or personal blogger as well.

If you like to keep things simple and write blogs as your online live journal you will be fitting in this category.

Finally

I hope this post gives you a basic idea of what you are heading, you may start off as a hobby blogger, tryout some of the persona mentioned and then see which one you prefer the most and keep it consistent, but ultimately no matter which type of persona you are, the key to success in attract your reader (or become famous!) is your content quality, so good luck and see you guys next post!