Why blogging professionally can help your career?

By: MJ Gonzales | Executive Chronicles

Initially, majority of bloggers are blogging for fun and past time. Their personal websites have become their outlets to try their writing skills and knowledge in cyberspace.  As the years go by, the rise of worth-to-read sites become aggressive as many bloggers showcase impressive write-ups, appealing photos, and entertaining videos. Not only that, even professionals such as doctors, businessmen, lawyers, and famous artists also become bloggers. Furthermore, there are ordinary individuals who become rich and famous because they blog for full-time and professionally.  Do you think blogging can help your career?

• Career enhancement become easy-breezy.

According to The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”  When you blog about your interest or topics about your profession, you also learning about yourself (like journal writing does) and people who can help you.

Blogging involves interacting with your readers who can relate or have knowledge about your niche. In addition to that; acquiring information about good talks, books, audiobooks, podcast, and video tutorials is easier.

• You become expert/ personality. Are you familiar with digital portfolio?  Your site is the best platform to feature who you are and what you know about your industry. If you take it seriously, who knows, you may even get recognitions and citations from different award-giving bodies.  This is not only look good on resume, but also for your personal branding.  You don’t have to be as famous as celebrity bloggers, but at least a recognized individual in your field.

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  You’ll have ways to meet personalities and invited by the companies. Gone are the days when companies see bloggers as blabbers, now there’s such thing as blog conferences or events that invite only bloggers. They do these so bloggers can experience and know what they want to promote. It’s a great chance for you as well to meet and greet CEOs, experts, and PR officers of companies that can be your connection or next partners.