(Newswire.net — September 16, 2016) — In regards to technology and innovation, the internet is just a baby. The industrial revolution started around 1760 and took place until around 1840. In that period, the telegraph came to be, the steamship came to be, the first submarine made its entrance into the subworld, and the threshing machine was invented. Other inventions that completely revolutionized the way the world does commerce and day to day life included the cotton gin, the battery, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and more.
The industrial revolution was the single changing point that defined the world as it is today. It’s hard to pinpoint what invention has been the most important, because each is valuable and transformed the world in its own way; but there can be no doubt that the greatest invention of the 21st Century has been the internet.
The internet is only 33 years old, and that’s being generous on the timeline. In reality, the internet as it appears today wasn’t really invented until Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. In 26 years, the face of the world literally changed colors, as everything glows with the blue light that signifies connection.
Come Back to Reality
With this being said, the internet is the primary vehicle for commerce today. With a billion websites out there, and everyone telling you that to be successful and seen in the world, you have to be on every internet platform available, blogs are being written like crazy.
Your blog is a needle in a haystack, and even that’s not accurate; your blog is more likely a needle in a 10,000 acre field of hay. So, how do you get people to read your blog looking into 2017, where the trends are only looking to climb as internet usage and popularity goes up? Though it all begins with the physical act of writing and actually starting a blog, you have to realize that you are essentially invisible. Once you come back to reality and realize that there is actually strategy that has to be figured out here, you can begin to make the climb to the top of the ladder, as far as blogging goes.
Research Social Media Trends
As a blog writer, your job does not end with simply writing down your ideas about life in a clever format with a pretty hero image. You have to be as much a writer as you have to be an entrepreneur and marketing aficionado. The business of blogging is all about marketing and getting yourself seen. If you want people to read your blogs in 2017, people have to first know how to find them. Oh, and people aren’t going to go searching. This means you literally have to put your blog on their radar.
One way you can do this is by researching social media trends. Don’t tread on the heels of social media platforms that have been around forever. Even if they’re still popular, it’s important to use them as tools, but if you want to be seen in the future, you have to get your material posted on new, emerging social media platforms.
Be the Current Event People Are Talking About
People today are always looking for the next best thing. You have to create the innovation that people are looking for. What’s trending should be you and your blog, but you have to get creative in order to capture the attention of your target market.
No matter what you’re blogging about, if you want people to read your material in 2017, you need to stay on top of the trends and find different ways to get your point across. You will have to do things that people haven’t done before, but that’s how the industrial revolution started. Think outside of the screen you’re looking at as you read this.