I was running late for day job the other day. I hate that, when I’m running late, because I feel like I’m in a race that I can’t win. Anyway, I was jumping in the shower because I’m not totally gross as a human being and hygiene is slightly important to me and – in the spirit of losing a race against time – I attempted to shower as fast as I could.
It got me to thinking about how fast the world’s fastest shower would be. I mean, in order for it to count you would actually have to bathe – you couldn’t just jump into water and jump out in half a second. Obviously the water would have to be running before you got in, you’d probably need the soap in hand… no, no.. None of these would work.
If you were really going to beat the world record for showering, you’d have to think outside of the box to do it. It’s going to have to involve two people. To take the fastest shower in the world, you would need a second person with a pressure-washing apparatus and a liquid or gel soap feeding into the stream. This way they would just hose you down with hot soapy water in a few seconds, and then rinse you off. Boom! Fast shower!
I realized that blogging is the same way, but with less pressure washing and more soap.
Blogging is a lot of fun, it can be a great outlet for your thoughts, and even become a profitable way to replace traditional income sources, but you can’t blog about everything that everyone else is already blogging about. Take Game for example. Game is, for lack of a better way to describe it, how to pick up women. Game is the name of the skill set used to find and attractive women. Everyone and their mom has a blog on game. Everyone.
The problem is, there are so many damn game blogs! How is anyone supposed to get any kind of meaningful readership if we’re all saying the same things that everyone else is saying? The problem is that so many people read game blogs, run a set or two in a bar, get a phone number, and decide they’re an expert and should blog about it. If you want your game blog to stand out among the crowd of game blogs, you have to talk about different things! My blog teaches men how to apply the concepts of game to areas of their life other than women in order to be a dominant person and get everything they want out of life. It is a unique spin on an otherwise over-saturated topic.
That’s what it takes to be successful in blogging, you must have a voice that no one else has. You have to have a unique, and profound way of looking at things if you ever expect to get any kind of meaningful readership and subscription base. Otherwise, you’re just a faceless voice among a crowd of identical voices all shrieking for attention! Do something to be unique, something to stand out and capture the attention of others! Try looking at things from outside the box and blog with a unique perspective and you’ll be successful.
And also linkwhore. Linkwhoring helps.
