20 Blogging Experts Share Their Most Influential Blog Post

20 Blogging Experts Share Their Most Influential Blog Post – EV

by kashyap technical.

I’ve been making money bloggingfor quite a long time now. In fact I launched my first blog 8 years ago this month.

The other day my friend, Shane, was asking me how I kept motivated with blogging especially after doing it for so long. I told him that I have bookmarked a handful of blog posts which I revisit whenever I feel unmotivated, tired or frustrated. After all blogging can be quite a lonely and daunting process especially in those first few months.

And this got me thinking, what blog posts have been influential on some of my favourite bloggers? So I reached out and asked them…..

Which Blog Post has Inspired You?

Below are the twenty excellent responses I received.

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Joe Pulizzi – Founder Content Marketing Institute

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There was one article from 2010 that has continued to challenge my thinking and perspective and this was a piece that Malcolm Gladwell wrote called Small change: Why the revolution won’t be tweeted.

Remember that this was written before Arab Spring, before Occupy Wall Street and other seemingly crowd-sourced revolts. When he wrote it, he was largely criticized but looking back, we must consider whether is it possible to create a societal change through the weak relational links of social media. What change has really occurred through the Spring and Occupy movements? The piece continues to provoke discussion five years later.

Mark Schaefer – college educator, marketing consultant, and author of five marketing books including The Content Code

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Here is the most inspiring post I’ve ever read: A Speech You Will Never Hear Again by Mark Schaefer. It’s actually a transcript of a talk he gave at a conference, and picturing Mark saying these words on a stage makes it all the more powerful.

It starts “I’m just a guy with a blog. A blog that saved my life…” and goes into the most personal account I’ve read about how the act of creating something, content even, can take you from a very bad place in life to a much better place, physically, mentally and emotionally. Rarely have I read such a personal account on such an important topic. I recommend spending a few quiet minutes with Mark’s words.

Andy Crestodina – Principal, Strategic Director, Orbit Media

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One of the best blog posts I’ve read anywhere is Pat Flynn’s Podcasting Tutorial on the Smart Passive Income blog

As a former BBC local radio journalist I thought it would be good to leverage some of my skills and start a podcast – but the information I found online was either expensive or not easy to follow. (I soon realised that even with my broadcast experience, I had a lot to learn about all this once I got started).

So when I stumbled across Pat’s podcasting tutorial – I think it was mentioned in one of his shows – I was delighted that it was free, easy to follow and actionable. I followed it to the letter and that’s how the Content Champion podcast got started. I’ve now produced nearly 50 episodes and am thinking of adding another podcast to my content output.

Pat offers tremendous value through his blog, and over the years I’ve bought quite a few products through his affiliate links – plus his ‘Smart Podcast Player’ (which I still use and recommend), so I’ve gone some way to paying back the great value he’s given me.

I guess that’s what happens when you produce fantastic quality content on your blog – your readers get so much out of it that the law of reciprocation means they feel compelled to pay you back in some way – which is certainly true in my case with Pat’s superb podcasting post.

        Thanks friends.

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