How to Find Your Winning Difference

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in Uncategorized

trophyWhen seeing other blogs has the same topic as yours, do you question yourself things like who you are, what makes you worthy among others, and what your winning difference is?

If yes, you’re not alone.

In diaries, people feel unique, different, and winning because they become themselves there, not influenced from others at all. The same psychological state: original and free, holds important roles in defining our winning difference in writing on our blogs, the difference that leads us to blogging success and standing among other top bloggers.

The question is how to apply the state to find our winning difference in blogging? Here are a few ideas from me:

1. Be original in style

The way we write our posts and run our blogs is already original and unique. It won’t be a good idea to duplicate other people’s style since we will lose our true personality, even though public says it’s better. If we think our style is suitable for us, don’t let others tell us otherwise.

However, sometimes we are so newb on something and we have no single clue on what we like and want regarding style. That’s when trying others bloggers’ styles becomes a tool to help ourselves finding ours. We take what is good and suitable for us from the experiments, and leave those aren’t. Eventually, we will gain experience and can define clearly what our preferred style is.

Regarding style, it is great if we can transform our weakness into our unique style. For example, if we are a newbie on a topic, we can share our simple point of view to give feedbacks on simple things that matters, because experts tend to discuss sophisticated things that don’t really matters. If we are short on language (e.g. the non-native English users like me), we can develop simple and straightforward articles that don’t give brains unnecessary loads ;-)

2. Opinions

Whatever topic we may write on a post, there is a good chance that someone (usually more experienced than us) has written about it before us. What can we do about it after we finished feeling unworthy and having no chance? ;-)

An opinion is the answer. Giving our personal opinions to existing discussion on a topic will add new value and express our voice on the matter. If that’s the case, it’s not a problem to write on popular topics because we add something. We enrich it, even though only a microscopic fraction ;-)

Everybody is good enough to express opinions. Sometimes a newbie can see things experts have forgotten, and then add a new point of view. Mediocre is the majority, so if our knowledge on a topic is mediocre, then we have the majority on our back when we express our view. Experts are leaders, and if we are experts, our opinion has a good chance to be taken as truth. Giving opinion is actually more to willingness than knowledge.

3. Instant action

When I was on my electric guitar course, my teacher once told me that a guitarist can produce extra-sweet melodies sometimes from instant notes, which suddenly pop up in head (or fingers) without planned. It just comes out in the middle of a performance.

Years later, I realized that it also applies in blogging. Scheduling things is good step in blogging, but sometimes we need to write something real fresh. Something that we and other people don’t predict before, something super instant.

I have a MS Word file that is full of ideas for my future posts (more than 50 ideas). But before I write an article, I usually look for a unique idea that sometimes pops up suddenly in my head. A fresh idea that I don’t even predict before, usually triggered from real events and situation (either online or offline). Such idea is usually extra compelling for me to write.

This kind of ideas comes from somewhere inside of me, which even I myself don’t know where. But I know that my posts based on it are so fast for me to finish, like I’m having a hidden knowledge that reveals itself as I’m typing it. Such posts make me feel becoming my true self and free.

Note: This post is one of them ;-)

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10 Responses to “How to Find Your Winning Difference”

  1. LetUpdate

    10. Sep, 2009

    It seems that what we get from life can give uniqueness in our blog. It only need our effort to put in our blog style.

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  2. KPerrone

    10. Sep, 2009

    Good post. I always try to throw my opinion in most of my articles to add my own personal touch, especially if the article is about something common. Maybe I should make a MS Word file similar to yours with ideas of future posts. I usually just try to post something in each category every week.

    I guess lately I’ve been focusing more on getting my theme exactly how I want it more than anything.

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  3. earningstep

    10. Sep, 2009

    yeah… be original… create useful content write by ourself… this will boost seo for sure

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    • Isaac Yassar

      10. Sep, 2009

      Agreed. Search engine aims to give valuable content top position on search results. So it’s also a nice SEO trick as well.

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  4. Asswass

    10. Sep, 2009

    I totally agree with those ideas Isaac and I try to follow them everytime I write a new post.

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  5. Ricky

    11. Sep, 2009

    Be original and innovative. Sometime the posting timing also plays a crucial role.

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  6. Jim Hardin

    11. Sep, 2009

    Isaac Very true. When I first started blogging, which is really right now, I find myself seeing things I like on others blogs and I guess you could say sort of copying stuff that I like. I have to admit I like the way your blog looks. It is clean and professional and I like the idea of adding a picture to each post. I have to say now as I move along in my blogging career I am slowly building my own style. Maybe its a combination and bits and pieces from others blogs that I visit, but its how I put these pieces together that makes it my style.

    You are so right with the opinion thing. I tend to think alot about writing things then I think that geez others have probably said it already. These other people are way more experienced than me and know a lot more. But then I think hey just add your own words to it, create your own spin to it and make it original. Sure some people may not like it for what ever reason, but it creates conversation.

    I do have to say that my more recent posts have come from spontaneous thoughts that just come to mind for some reason. They seem to jump out to me and I seem to put them together quickly. I do have some drafts saved like you, but I think my best posts have come to me as a random thought or something that just happend to me during the day whether it is at work or at home.

    Anyways Great post! Keep up the good work!
    Jim

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  7. Isaac Yassar

    11. Sep, 2009

    Thanks Asswass, Ricky, and Jim. Timing is also belong to our style. We have our own habits of choosing the right time to post. As all of us are still learning to be a professional blogger, this becomes one of the phases.

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  8. Jared P Little

    12. Sep, 2009

    Yes oringinal or personal stoties always work best for me. I think everyone enjoys when you keep it real and speak the truth. Idea files are good but sometimes when you go back to it you don’t like it.

    I not very good at writting myself what I do is make a list of titles everymonth and then when it is time to write I see which title pops out to me.
    :-)

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    • Isaac Yassar

      12. Sep, 2009

      Thanks for sharing, Jared. I also feel it sometimes. Today we write an idea there, tomorrow we’ll feel that the idea is not fresh any longer to write. Some ideas stays interesting to write though, at least for me.

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