Did you ever experience a nagging sensation that you should be doing more to promote your business?
Have you considered posting a blog online, but despite your intentions, you are finding momentum or a sense of procrastination preventing you from enacting your intentions?
Even those who write for a living will admit that it is sometimes hard to find the motivation. They allow themselves to be distracted by a host of meaningless, time-killing tasks in order to avoid committing their thoughts to a coherent, communicative format such as a blog.
For a small business, a blog can expose the business to potential customers who would otherwise be completely unaware of the existence of that business, and in many instances can be done for free, the word that any small business loves to encounter.
If you can maintain this mindset of the potential benefit of a blog, you should be able to manage those vague fears over whether or not you can write well enough, or can create a blog site that will impress readers who may be potential clients of your business.
An honest self-examination helps.
Were you the type who when, as a child, were given a first-day school assignment of composing a 50 word essay describing your holiday and reacted with trepidation?
If this is true for you, exploring your options for blogs where someone else does the writing for you can achieve the same goal minus the negative feelings that creating your own content might evoke for you.
On the other hand, if your response to the essay assignment was to find it impossible to contain your holiday experiences to 50 words, you might want to consider how to manage your blog posts so as to limit your content to just the few things that will appeal to your intended audience.
Many of our attitudes and responses to any given situation as adults were formed when we were very young and remain with us throughout our lives. Simple awareness of these attitudes and responses is a major step toward accepting them, rather than viewing them as an obstacle to be overcome.
Self-understanding will enable you to approach the subject of creating a blog to promote your business in a spirit of open-minded curiosity, rather than a sensation of dread over creating a blog that is anything other than perfect.