How to Learn Effectively from Pro Bloggers

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We all bloggers learn with experience either of our own or other bloggers. In fact, most of us try to learn new tips and tactics to get successful from professional bloggers. But many of the bloggers fail to get success even if they are following and taking suggestions from professional bloggers.

It is very important that you must have positive attitude while learning new things and follow few tips which will surely help you to improve as a blogger and keep you away from failures.

5 Tips to Learn Effectively From Professional Bloggers

Select your mentor:
You will come across lots of professional bloggers, but it’s up to you whom you want to make your mentor. Make sure that you select your mentor who works ethically and passionate about blogging. Selecting a professional blogger and following him should be done effectively because it may directly affect your blogging career.

Know what you want to learn:
Unless you are not clear what you want from your blogging career, you can’t expect from others to help you. Thus instead of creating confusions, make sure that you make yourself clear about what kind of help you are looking from professional bloggers or what things you want to learn from them to build your blogging career.

Apply the tips:
Professional bloggers always keep on giving useful blogging tips either through their articles or on social networking websites. So, try to read such useful stuffs posted by professional bloggers and implement them as soon as possible. If you will just keep on asking for tips from professional bloggers and don’t apply those tips, even professional bloggers will stop giving you tips.

Take feedbacks positively:
While learning new things, it’s important that to prepare yourself mentally that you will get both positive and negative comments. Thus while giving tips and helping you with blogging stuffs, professional bloggers might give negative comment/feedbacks to improve you. Take those comments positively and avoid doing same mistake again.

Build relationship:
Make sure to show gratitude to professional bloggers who help you to learn new things. You can do this by sending them a mail or just say thanks through social networking websites. Even you can help them whenever required, this will help you to build a healthy relationship with professional bloggers.

You can learn from more than one professional bloggers but learning will only be effective when you start applying given tips in your blogging career. Professional bloggers are more like teachers, they will explain you and give you homework and then see the results. Thus, try to give best results to them.

I am sure you would be having few more tips which will help us in learning effectively from professional bloggers. Do share your views with us.

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  1. August 10, 2010

    Ron Leyba said:

    A well written and explained tips you have here Ruchi. I think, if the above tips will be followed, then all will go well. But, if you will take those tips to a higher level or just by adding new techniques, then, you can build your own name around the blogging community.
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  2. August 11, 2010

    Nabeel | Create Your First Website said:

    Hi,

    Great advice.

    I think we should be reading the problogger’s advices and posts regularly and consistently, to have any benefit.

    I find that when I read posts from pro bloggers regularly, instead of irregularly, I learn the most.

    Kindest,
    Nabeel


  3. August 11, 2010

    Sourish @ Iphone 4 Jailbreak said:

    Building relations is an essential part of bllogging , as starters often giveup in the first 6 months . Well i have been blogging almost over a year now . You guys are a great inspiration


  4. August 11, 2010

    Balaji said:

    hi ruchi i found this article is very useful and plan to do the step5 with you!(pro blogger)
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  5. August 11, 2010

    tushar said:

    i liked that comment about selecting a mentor…infact its high time i need one…but i hope its not necessary that only a pro blogger…
    it can be anyone, right?
    My Latest Blog Post: 3 Tips to Discover That Your Corporate Identity is a Mess or Not


  6. August 11, 2010

    Onibalusi Bamidele said:

    Really great post Ruchi,

    Eaxctly! You are absolutely right!

    It is always important to learn carefully and not just learn. It is also important to choose your mentor wisely

    You always come up with great posts! :)

    Thanks a lot for the great post,
    -Onibalusi
    My Latest Blog Post: 48 Keys To Success


  7. August 11, 2010

    Dean Saliba said:

    I don’t really agree with picking a mentor I have tried this and I found myself spending more time looking at what he was doing than I spent on my own blogs.
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  8. August 12, 2010

    Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella said:

    All good tips, but I think of all the things we do as bloggers, we often fail to recognize that it’s the relationships we build that will be of the most value.

    Finding and getting to know people who will ultimately help us grow, promote our blogs and be possible future partners in online ventures.
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  9. August 12, 2010

    Devesh said:

    Hey Ruchi,

    Really awesome points. some great points there.

    I really like the point of having a mentor !!

    Thanks for sharing this great Post.

    ~Dev


  10. August 13, 2010

    Mark Wilkinson@Wordpress how to wp said:

    Wow this is all so true. I am amazed at how many bloggers, both pro’s and newbies, let their ego and pride get in the way of trying different ideas.

    If you get a tip try it if you haven’t before!

    And if it works thank the person!

    If you buy software for keyword research or a nice new theme for your blog and you love it…then send them an email and say thanks. It is a great way to open the door to a discussion with an expert.

    Speaking of sharing ideas. Here is a link to an affiliate marketing 101 article I just wrote for one of my websites. it covers a lot of ground in a short article (but it is meant to give the 5 most important things you need to know to start affiliate marketing so it is basic but critical things):How to Affiliate Marketing at http://www.affiliatestoreguide.com/how-to-affiliate-marketing-5-things-you-must-know-to-succeed
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  11. August 13, 2010

    Thu Nguyen said:

    Hi Ruchi,

    Great valid points and I agree with you all the way I too have started with a mentor and followed down your learning path. Each step is worth it’s explanation alone as the research in time spent on them can be crucial to your success.

    Personally I like to blog about conversations on blogs which continues to influence me beyond the article. Thus linking back to them I continue to build a relationship which explains in depth how I feel.

    Thanks for the thoughtful share.
    Thu
    My Latest Blog Post: What Does Blogging Mean to You


  12. August 14, 2010

    Dennis Edell | Direct Sales Marketing said:

    Know what you want to learn: This is extremely important.

    I know from experience that far too many people simply say, “teach me”, when they have no real idea what they want to learn….it takes twice as long and nothing really gets taught.
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  13. August 16, 2010

    Dave Saunders said:

    Thanks for the tips. As a kinesthetic learner, I enjoy being able to interact with a mentor and mentally “handle” and “touch” blog content and brainstorm ideas for improving my content.
    My Latest Blog Post: Skip the meetings and collaborate online


  14. August 19, 2010

    Reza Winandar said:

    Just stop learning from many ebooks and start action, people often learned too much so they don’t do anything.
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  15. August 21, 2010

    Richard Chidike | Motivatory said:

    I can’t agree any less with the points in the wonderful article. implementation is one thing that we all need to do and not just gather the tips and never make use of them. so, if anyone must succeed then, that person must learn to act.


  16. August 22, 2010

    Kok Siong @ Cancer Research said:

    I think selecting a suitable and great mentor is important for a new blogger. We have to choose a mentor who can train us but not only teaching us.
    This is essential so that we can do it practically for ourselves.
    My Latest Blog Post: 5 Ways to Improve Myself in Cancer Cytogenetics


    • August 23, 2010

      Sourish @ Ipod Touch 4 said:

      its not easy to find a good mentor who will tell their secrets of the business , but do share there success story , and one among them really influenced me . Some blog about it , and its best to read other blogs


  17. January 8, 2011

    Mike Pablate said:

    Hi,

    thanks for the useful information for me.

    From this post, I’m sure that I learned a lot of things.

    I’m also trying to do blogging and it is my initial stage so I have a little problem in writing so first of I want to improve it for this I visit different forums to learn well.

    I think commenting on blogs would also teaches us many things for doing blogging perfectly.
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  18. October 13, 2011

    Mel Melhado said:

    So true, selecting the right mentor is really important since we’ll be learning from them and later on even start taking decisions based on their philosophies. Simple and to the point, I enjoyed reading this post, Ruchi.