Reflection

I feel like a lot can be taken away from consistently writing a blog. I began writing for a blog a few years back along with a buddy of mine but we failed to keep up with it and only made posts every week for about two months. We wrote about our most passionate topic, that being sports. Whether it was college or professional, we experimented with writing articles for just a short period of time.

Now, with the help of some blog post readings, there’s a slight itch that has crawled back to me about wanting to write articles again, but try to keep with it for an extended period of time. The article from Spencer Haws titled, “29 BIGGEST OBSTACLES TO STARTING A SUCCESSFUL BLOG OR WEBSITE,” is a useful article to keep tabs on for any problems related to starting a blog and keeping with it. The biggest obstacles being finding good content to write about, how to get traffic, and maybe the biggest obstacle for me being time.

I think beginning a blog can attribute to your personal brand as well. It seems now more than ever people are trying to create a popping brand for themselves and produce worthy content. Learning about how to create an effective blog that people will invest into and gaining traffic for the blogs is something I hope to accomplish in my future career.

As long as people are still interested in sports (which they definitely are), revamping the website and getting back to writing blogs can be in my near future. I feel like there’s still an interest in reading blogs too. I take time occasionally to read articles on sites like ESPN and Barstool Sports. These articles are usually posted on their social media accounts too which is an effective tool to gain more traffic. Maybe the most important tool is social media to help jumpstart a trend of blog posts.