(ims source : zoella)
1. You should be a brand, brand yourself, you your person and everything that you are should become a brand. You must be on ALL social media as part of brand you, Facebook, twitter, periscope, instagram, snapchat (no dick pics), pinterest and any other. You are no longer a person with a blog you are a blogger.
2. You should go self hosted, you just won't go anywhere on blogger or wordpress and remember that is why we all blog- to go somewhere.
3. You should monetise your blog, through banner ads about tampons that take over your entire blog, key clicky word things and by charging brands top dollar to advertise their products on your blog (because brands keep exploiting us smaller [aka not zoella types] bloggers by only sending us an outfit).
4. You should focus more on SEO, pinnable images and key words, because how else will you be found and become a big time blogger?
5. You should buy a really expensive DSLR and shoot mainly in auto (because you just don't have time to adjust the manual settings). It doesn't matter if the photos you take on your iPhone or compact camera are good, you should have a DSLR. And whilst you're buying the DSLR make sure you get a tripod, remote and full studio lighting kit, because you should have them.
Maybe I don't want to?
You know what you should really be doing as a blogger? Whatever the hell you want.
So....here's to all the girls and guys with blogs who do it for fun, for the love of sharing and making new friends who love the same things. Here's to the people who just bumble on without worrying about SEO, marketing and becoming famous. To the people who don't complain that they get paid way too little and instead are happy that they're getting paid to do their hobby at all. Here's to the people, just like myself, who still get excited with every new follower, comment and tweet and here's to you for reading my post.
Have ever been told you really should be doing something as a blogger?
xo