1 Blogging improves your storytelling skills

1 Blogging improves your storytelling skills

Blogging is about storytelling.

Either in words, with pictures, thru videos or

podcasts.

Storytelling is nowadays essential part of

content marketing.

Behind every good product or service is a

great story that needs to be told.

Tell yours!

2 Blogging improves your communication

2 Blogging improves your communication

Polishing your storytelling skills, improves your

communication skills.

If you are shy, introverted, or have low self-

esteem, maybe you don’t know how to sell

yourself?

Pass on what you know to colleagues, the

community & the society!

3 Sharing is caring

3 Sharing is caring

Your knowledge is to be shared.

Blogging can be a great platform for sharing

what you’ve learned.

Others must learn from you so they can

improve their lives.

It is a great way for you to influence your social

circle positively!

4 Position yourself as a thought leader

4 Position yourself as a thought leader

Blogging helps you build corporate and

personal credibility.

Thought leaders are perceived experts and

everyone is expert in something.

When done right, blogging can give thought

leaders great visibility in the search engine

results. And that is what matter today!

5 Build your personal info repository

5 Build your personal info repository

We have an information overload.

Blogging helps archive information you will

sooner or later need again.

You may regularly browse through your blog

and remind yourself of issues, solutions, and

ideas that you might have already forgotten,

but are still useful!

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