The Best 300th Network Marketing Blog Post on the Internet
When I started this blog it was mainly for Network Marketing. Now, let me tell you how that evolved into something much greater.
Blogging is exciting, frustrating, challenging and full of love and hate.
It’s you against the words in your head hitting the keyboard and being released into the world.
Blogging can be a barren wasteland where you hear from maybe one commenter once every two months, to getting a blog post seen by thousands in one day.
Blogging is a rollercoaster that can spiral you downward into depression before spiraling you upward to financial freedom and ideal working conditions from anywhere a laptop can take you.
The Beginning of a Network Marketing Blog
When I started this blog in 2014, I had three other blogs.
This blog was only attended to once a week if that.
I didn’t know exactly where I wanted it to go, but I began writing about network marketing articles on it.
My first popular post was called The 4 best MLM Companies for 2016.
It was originally for 2015, but I changed the year after the new year and it still stayed popular.
I kept writing, but nothing was popping.
It then occurred to me that people would search a specific network marketing company by typing in Google’s search, “What happened to (so and so company.)
So, I kept up with MLM news and when a company was going under or being investigated, I would write a post.
I came up with three good ones:
What Happened to Agel
What Happened to Vemma
What Happened to Solavei
I even tried this tactic for MLM companies with nothing wrong:
What Happened to Brain Abundance
Then I discovered the power of “giving back.”
My blog was starting to bore me.
I was writing generic MLM articles just like 97% of the other network marketing bloggers out there.
Since, I was studying my competition closely, I fell in love with other blogger’s style and tone.
There were some really hard working network marketing bloggers out there.
So, I decided to compile all the bloggers who were in the network marketing niche and rank them according to Alexa and Moz stats.
I came up with:
The Top 80 MLM Bloggers and 32 MLM Bloggers to Watch Dominate Network Marketing.
This is when my blog got real attention.
The biggest MLM blogger, Ray Higdon, commented about my article on his Twitter and his Facebook.
I went over to my analytics and watched hundreds of people visiting that article. The wave of interest lasted about two days and left me with 1,200 social shares and dozens of comments.
It made me feel good to help other people out and it planted a seed in me where I wanted to help others more than myself with this blog.
When personality mixes with Business
Again, I hit a plateau.
My traffic fell flat after I spotlighted over 112 MLM Bloggers.
And, I didn’t want to go back to generic “How to Get Leads with Facebook” posts.
I knew that no way I could compete with gigantic websites, like Forbes and Entrepreneur, for terms like this.
So, I played the “personality” card.
I had been going through a lot of changes in my personal life and I loved the more personal websites out there, like Huffington Post and the Good Men Project.
I wanted to mix network marketing articles with personal articles that revealed a little more about my vulnerable side.
I knew that blog readers were starving for authenticity and humility.
No many bloggers who I read laid it all on the line and I wanted to break out of the business mold.
Masturbating and Porn oh my!
I was pretty much a selfish drunk for most of my adult life who suffered a heart attack at the age of 32.
I knew I could resonate with other young heart-attack survivors when I wrote 5 Lessons my Heart Attack Taught Me.
It wasn’t exactly a happy ending article, but rather challenged people’s assumptions that it would end happily ever after.
In fact, I tell my readers in the article that the heart-attack did nothing to slow down my downward spiraling destruction. I actually drank twice as much after the heart-attack. Go figure.
There is a happy ending though to each personal post like this.
Whenever I see a glimmer of wisdom or resolution to a problem within my articles, I reveal it at the end, no matter how tiny my ability is to summarize the lesson.
I learn and grow as I blog.
My readers grow along with me.
So, just like the government naming the war on Iraq as “Shock and Awe”, I too shocked and awed my readers when I wrote:
How Masturbating Over 40 Destroys Your Life and Ruins Business.
“Ruins Business” was a pointless add on, but I was trying to score some SEO with the network marketers.
Not exactly a good blend, but we evolve by seeing if oil and water actually can mix well.
The blog got a lot of views on the East Coast, maybe someone on Facebook in NYC posted it. I don’t know.
But, I do know that I helped a few older men realize they were reducing their love and enjoyment with their wives by jacking off.
I took it a step further with the next post:
How Porn is Making Your Spirit and Soul a Whore.
Imagine Google spiders trying to figure out this one.
After I posted it, I worried that I would be recognized as an adult site.
Not many people looking for personal development type in the words “Spirit Soul Whore” into Google’s search bar.
Back to the drawing board.
The Introvert Ignores the Narcissist
Since I was a heavy drinker in my 20’s, my ego got the best of me and protected me by pointing me inwards.
After a few years of introversion, I became a full-blown Narcissist.
I felt I could shed some light for Narcissists and introverts everywhere by posting articles, like:
10 Authentic Reasons Why Introverts Kick Ass, and
How to Escape Narcissism after 40.
I was getting somewhere, but very close to losing my network marketing readers.
Bloggers have to take risks and like Dan Kennedy says: Find out what everyone is doing and do the opposite.
It was still scary, but I knew I could help people more by writing about sensitive issues.
My brand was starting to blend a little better, but merging MLM with personal darkness was still quite a challenge.
It’s hard to paint the landscape with a Nuclear Bomb went off.
The Shamans Entered and Danced with my Spirit
I recently went to Peru to do Ayahuasca with some Shamans.
Ayahuasca is pretty mainstream these days so I won’t bore you with latin names, but it’s a “plant medicine” that can give you a serious wake up call with your life.
Again, I had to share with my readers how that all went down by writing posts like:
How to truly Reassess the Sh*t You’re Doing Using San Pedro, and
3 Important tips that Saved my Sanity During Ayahuasca Ceremony.
I wanted to go further with this and add my issue with my dad in the next one:
How to Reconnect with Your Dad Using Ayahuasca.
But, before I went to Peru I found a Western Shaman in Austin, Texas.
Imagine that.
She broke me down before I was broken down in Peru.
Here’s My First Experience with a Western Shaman.
Blogging can Rebuild Us
You know, through all my insecurity exploring the dark edges of my life through Blogging, I found some light.
Blogging helped rebuild me.
My structure had been bent, warped and distorted by the hard, ignorant years of Adolescence.
It was now time to unveil a new man on this blog.
I shared how I evolved by writing posts like:
How Men Can Rebuild Confidence after 40, and
Why I Drank and Why You Don’t.
I even went back to my childhood years and explored My story of Being a Failed Drummer, and
How I Went from Bum to Millionaire.
Conclusion
Blogging has been a trip.
Not only has it renewed my passion for writing, it has revealed things that lied dormant below the surface until my fingertips typed up the feelings from my subconscious.
My blogging has gone from little greedy MLM “Lead Magnet” to helping others by sharing my struggles.
I’m not exactly Oprah or Tony Robbins, but I think that the 300,000 words on this blog have not only evolved my life, but have also truly helped someone else.
Thanks for reading. Please comment below. I want to hear from you.
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