“This is the most discouraging and demoralizing post I have ever read anywhere. It falls into the category of not being able to get a job because you have no experience and not being able to get experience because you can’t get a job.”

I was reading the comments from a recent post at Yaro’s blog. The subject was about making money blogging, and the above comment was made by a guy named Jo.

I can sympathize with Jo’s lack of motivation when he’s not earning any money out of his blogging efforts, but part of the reason why he’s discouraged is because of his wrong thinking in the first place.

He said that blogging is a job. This means he is expecting to get paid for what he does right from the beginning.

But he is not having the right mindset. It’s the mindset of an employee.

And because blogging is an entrepreneurial activity, this mindset is going to hold him back.

Now I’m NOT saying you shouldn’t expect to get paid. I’m saying you shouldn’t expect to get paid in the beginning.

In Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “Before You Quit Your Job”, Robert shared something that forever changed the way I viewed jobs and work.

Rich Dad was asking young Robert to work for him for no pay. When Robert asked why, Rich Dad explained,

“This is not a job. This is HOMEWORK.”

Rich Dad was telling Robert to NOT treat it as a job, but as a learning opportunity. He was giving Robert some business HOMEWORK to do before Robert started out on his own business.

In school and in life, we don’t get paid to do our homework. As a matter of fact, we have to pay others to do homework.

Doctors and lawyers had to spend money to attend classes and do their HOMEWORK in college before they get paid to practice their profession.

Sports players had to spend years paying for coaching and doing their HOMEWORK, practicing and improving their skills in their sport, before they got their job as professional sports athletes.

Successful entrepreneurs had to do their HOMEWORK, paying the price for real-world business lessons, sometimes losing huge sums of money, before it becomes a job that pays them handsomely.

In blogging, it’s the same. Nobody gets paid as a blogger in the beginning.

It’s only after you do your HOMEWORK, by practicing your blogging and marketing skills, do you become a problogger – a “professional” who gets paid for blogging.

Jo is already treating blogging as a job he is not getting paid for, even though he has just started out. That’s why he is so discouraged.

What he, and every new blogger should do, is to

Treat it as HOMEWORK

You don’t get paid for doing your homework, but you do it because you are learning and gaining better knowledge of your topic and your market. You are practicing your writing and marketing skills and getting more experience.

And you keep on doing it to improve yourself until you become very good at what you do. That is the time when you become “a professional” and people will start paying you.

The good thing is, the homework for bloggers is comparably light.

In a traditional business, mistakes can cost you lots of money. Robert Kiyosaki went bankrupt twice. But in blogging, you don’t run the risk of losing money.

In sports, amateurs practiced their sport for free for many painful years before they turn pro and get paid. Even Tiger Woods had to sacrifice his entire childhood life earning nothing before he became a pro golfer. But in blogging, you don’t have to take that long.

So treat it as homework first. Take massive action, do as much homework as you can by blogging and marketing regularly and consistently.

The Fastest Way to Improve Your Results

On the not so bright side though, blogging can become quite frustrating if you are not getting results. There are two reasons for this:

1. You are doing your homework on your own with no idea how to improve.

Because you are inexperienced, you don’t really know where you are doing wrong, or which parts you need to improve. (Is it content? Is it marketing? Is it my writing?)

2. You have no objective feedback to know where you currently stand.

E.g. You may feel that your content is good, but can you trust your own judgment? You may be getting comments as feedback, but do they represent what the silent majority of your readers are thinking?

Or you may have attracted a big audience, but nobody seems to buy anything from you and you don’t know why because nobody’s telling you why.

Here’s where getting a mentor or a coach becomes really important. They have gone before you and have the knowledge and skills to teach, guide and provide the feedback you need to become successful.

Just like how serious athletes who want to go professional have their coaches to see what they need to work on to improve their techniques and develop training plans accordingly….

… likewise, you should seriously consider hiring a blogging coach who can develop a training plan for you, guide you step-by-step of the way, and provide you with constant objective feedback.

That’s why I recommend you to a great coach – David Risley.

David is a very successful six-figure blogger. Just last year, he earned $141,860.08 from his blog PC Mech, which is NOT in the “make money online” niche. He is also a problogger for over 7 years now.

You can trust him to know the ins and outs of blogging, what works and doesn’t work, and how to grow a blog from nothing to earning six-figures a year.

But besides all the reasons outlined above, like the need to know which specific areas you need to improve and getting expert feedback…

… here’s the best reason why you should consider taking up his coaching:

Many bloggers are good at attracting fans to their blogs, but suck at converting them to customers. The information by other bloggers also revolves around attracting readers, not buyers.

But unlike most bloggers who don’t know crap about marketing, David is a true marketer as well.

With David as your coach, you will learn

• how to attract the right audience from the first place – not just any Tom, Dick or Harry, but highly-qualified prospects who are ready to buy from you.
• how to build their trust in you as the EXPERT (and not as a mere friend), and guide them along till they become paying customers, earning you some really good profits.
• how to build a blogging BUSINESS that runs without you, and not just become a professional where you become tied to just another job.

You will learn all these and much more at David’s coaching program. It is specifically designed to train you in both blogging AND marketing skills (the more crucial part being marketing).

You can literally have your hands held by a successful problogger for six months, where he’ll guide you and help you personally.

But you need to hurry. The doors to his coaching close in two days.

Go here now for the details. I’ll see you inside:

David Risley’s Coaching Program