This week we’re going to be sharing a few mistakes we’re seeing aspiring bloggers and influencers make. We’ve personally made some of these mistakes so we want you to be aware and learn from these mistakes so you can focus on growing and establishing your brand.

Mistake #1: Spending money on courses when they haven’t started a blog a yet

In 2020, there’s a massive amount of online courses you can take about how to pitch to brands or step up your Instagram game. 

While all of these courses can be helpful to your journey, they may not be the right thing to focus on if you’re just getting started.

You probably could take a new course about Instagram or blogging every single week for a year – but until you actually launch your blog, you can’t apply any of this information you’ve learned. 

If you want to start a blog in 2020, you must start a blog. If you want to start an Instagram account or TikTok, you must start an account on those platforms.

Mistake #2: Focus on making money when they haven’t made any content

Blogging can be a great side hustle or full time job that earns you money – but this does NOT happen overnight. This takes time. Just because you change over to an Instagram business account and launch your website doesn’t mean that people will start flocking to your website and driving up your page views and engagement. 

If your ultimate goal is to make money with blogging, you have to create content, build an engaged audience, and understand how to work with brands.

We personally recommend building up at least 6 months’ worth of content before you start asking for money from brands. 

Mistake #3: Getting caught up and frustrated in the follow/unfollow game

This is NOT a productive way to spend your time as a blogger and content creator. 

 What other people do with follow/unfollow does NOT affect your ability to create content or engaged with your audience. Instead of getting caught up in the F/UF game, you should focus on meaningful content to your audience. You should focus on increasing your blog traffic and figuring out ways to cross promote your blog on Pinterest and Twitter.

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