Welcome to my blog. I really hope you didn’t come here to read yet another seo tactic. I really wanted to share the exact reason that will decide if your going to end up successful in Blogging.
Ultimately there’s two kinds of blogs and two kinds of bloggers. Bloggers love the process of sharing their thoughts and ideas and hopefully they get some positive feedback. Then you have the sales pages and blogs that are used by sales people, BUSINESS people, people that their primary motivation is money and not YOU.
There is nothing wrong with making money online. Everyone has an agenda
The best way I know to be successful is to NEVER miss the Follow up. I reach out and TEST people all the time. It amazes me sometimes how people can write about networking and social media on their blogs and don’t know anything about really networking, I watch them take this LONG ass journey, adding friends on every site on the planet, writing some decent post about Blogging Tips and yet remain they clueless about what is really going to make you successful and that is PEOPLE.
I constantly LOOK for better ways to engage people. Skype is an excellent resource and I enjoy the time I spend on there talking with my blogging friends, in fact me and another blogger are starting a business tomorrow doing basically what we do now for FREE 
In my experience Bloggers often like rowing their own boat (BLOG) so much that they miss out on honest feedback and a much easier ways to obtain their goals. Be open for feedback and express an interest in what other people are doing and when possible do whatever you can to assist them in their venture.
Engaging other people that are doing the same thing as you is the easiest way to fast track your success, yet most bloggers float around in their own reality desperately looking for the next IT when they already have everything they need.
A monkey can write a post. A blogger who is going to be successful KNOWS the PEOPLE are what is important, money and opportunities will come as you learn to engage people better. TRUST me on that one. If you want to make websites say THAT, if your selling something SAY THAT, writing hundreds of post about wordpress and seo is cool but it’s not going to get you paid and it will just make your journey more difficult.
Some quick tips. Visit every blog that leaves a comment. I do that for two reasons one I want to make sure that every link from this site is going to GOOD sites, I also think it’s common courtesy to do your best to visit other people. Grab their email and shoot them a Thanks or hit their twitter button and send them a Quick Thanks Successful people do things that LOSERS Don’t.
One of my BIG pet peeves is (WAS) when bloggers didn’t bother to say Thanks. I would judge someone very harshly but their failure to do so, that’s wrong but their lack of initiative spoke volumes to me personally. As I deal with more people I’m done keeping a mental file on what other bloggers do and don’t do. I believe my “tactics” work for everyone and everyone should at least try them. Or better yet Don’t and down the road we will see where I am and where your methods take you. I have seen 1000′s of bloggers come and GO.1000′s that could of made it. We all basically want the same things, I only hope that bloggers realize without each other we have NOTHING.
Make a new friend today or better yet reach out to someone you haven’t spoke with in a while and say HEY 
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I agree. The bloggers who aren’t passionate about what they blog about aren’t likely to be successful. Especially if they get too focused on themselves and not reaching out to others.
I agree engaging other people is the key to success. I have been blogging for a year and a half now but at the beginning I made the mistake of not approaching other bloggers, of not talking to them. Now my blog is doing better than ever simply because I try to build relationships with other bloggers.
I think that you have it exactly right! And the thing is blogging on your own is no fun – you get little traffic, no support and will most likely quit after a couple of months. But when you start to meet new bloggers and network effectively, you start to build a support group and the focus changes from ‘what you can get’ to ‘what you can give’.
Great post John.
Thanks!!
Skype is great, the concept too, not that I can use it the way you lot do, nevertheless it’s great that people can connect all over the globe and chat for nothing.
It;s people like you who give me that extra nudge to move onto WPress and for that alone I say a big thanks.
I can’t do anything but agree with your point…
“I only hope that bloggers realize without each other we have NOTHING.”
Indeed.
Great article Jon, yeah I agree people need to appreciate each other in the blogging world. I miss hanging with my blogging buds on Blog catalog, seems so one sided now that I pretty much retired The Litter Box, and started up my new blog
@Kat: OMG a Ghost and surely you stopping by on this special day of the blog being two today means everything.
We should talk on Yahoo or Skype SOON
Thanks Kat
You have some honest ideas here. It looks like you have done a research on the issue and discovered.Anyway thanks a lot.I think most peoples will agree with your blog.Keep it up.
Hi, i would like to say thank you for give us important tip here about blogging. Yes, a blog should be simple and easy to read so much that people understand what you want to say in your blog, when people understood your blog than you get more reply on it and of course this will profitable for you.
Hey John!
I have not been here for a while but you know I always do when I get the chance.
I think, some bloggers are just way too busy promoting themselves that they sometimes overlook what matters in the long run.
Having blogged for a while, nothing’s more appealing to me than seeing those guys who once commented come back and say, “hi”. That for me worth a lot.