Some people find it hard to learn how to blog properly or sometimes they need a role model to keep them up in blogging so that they don’t give up easily. I know some of you might be wondering, “Where I can find a role model or a tutor and what are the factors that I need to consider?” I will be giving out tips on this with this post.

Finding the right tutor or role model will be extremely important if you want to get the right information and motivation throughout your blogging routine. Also, I don’t think you will want to waste your time learning things from some people who are faking out (sometimes cheating your money) or just not good in providing you with the right stuffs.

Considerations Before Choosing a Tutor and Role Model for Yourself

Knowledge

I am sure that you would not want learn things from someone who have nothing to offer. There are a lot of blogs and people out there who are posting contents that are either copied or consists of no essence. A quick peek at their archives and comparing their articles to some other blogs out there will let you see the quality of knowledge that this person possesses.

Experience
A role model and a tutor’s role is to teach you things and offer you steps for you to follow. As a follower or a student, I would not want to test things out with my tutors. Why should I? They must have the experience to do things that they ask us to do. The experience is also important when it comes to providing you solutions for problems. Experienced tutors will know more than enough to predict the outcome of a happening because they might have gone through it before.

Proven Results
All the bluffs are nothing if he/she didn’t show you the proof that his/her ways really work to get the results you want. I know that not everyone have bombastic stats to show to the world but a stats or two can provide you an assurance before jumping into conclusion that this person is the Mr. Right for you!

Cost

Some blog coaching or tutoring programs such as Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind will charge you for the course. If you are really serious about blogging, you might consider to join such courses but please, before you click the “Register” button, search for reviews and testimonials regarding the course. Weighing the quality and the money that you will need to pay might keep you out from wasting your money on programs that are not suitable for you.

Interpersonal Skills
The person tutoring you must have the right interpersonal skills or communicating skills to convey the information to you properly. Some people tend to understand slowly, especially if they are new in this field. The explanation provided by the tutor must be adjusted for the understanding of his readers. Writing styles is the key to evaluate this aspect. If you read the articles written by this man and find it too hard for you to understand even a single sentence, you should move on. The way the writer is writing just doesn’t suit you.

Availability
Let’s just be realistic about this. A big blogger with tonnes of e-mails waiting for his replies everyday will not have time for every questions. A blogger with a rather small blog might have the time to cover your questions more thoroughly. Why not write in to someone with the same or slightly low level of expertise that will ensure you a reply rather than writing in to a person with a high level of expertise but the possibility of a reply is doubted?

Humble

The role model or tutor that you are looking for must be someone who is humble. People who are humble will be more willing to teach and share things with you if you ask for it. Also, they might spend their precious time explaining something that you don’t understand to you thoroughly. If the person you chose is arrogant, you might not learn anything, get a cold shoulder from him and sometimes, you might only be reading boastful posts of his showing you the stats and earnings.

Niche
If you are a gardening blogger, don’t ask an entertainment blogger about ways that he used to get his traffic. This is rather silly. Don’t ever benchmark your blog with someone who has a better stats but is in a different niche than yours. Blogs covering different niches will have different plateau so it is unnecessary to make a blog from another niche to be benchmarked against yours. The ways used might be different from the supposed way that you should use.

Background
A blogger’s background is very vital. If you want to ask about search engine optimization, don’t ask me because I am working on this skill after winning the SEO Book from Kenneth. Ask people who are already meeting success related to what you want to ask. If a blogger is on a free host like Blogger, don’t ask him ways to backup your Wordpress database. A good person might tell you the truth that he have no idea about it but someone evil might teach you the wrong way!

Your Level

What is your level of understanding about the particular field? With all the jargons (technical words), will the explanation be made to you clearly? Will your tutor gets frustrated with you? Don’t be shy, just say thanks and leave if you think the continuous explanation won’t do you any good but confusing you more. Seeking explanation from peers for explanations and tutoring is essential as well. They will be more willing to help since they are in the same category as you.

Do you think you need help regarding your blog? Will you ask questions to improve your blog and bring it to another stage or you will wait for the answer to come to you? Have you ever approached someone to ask them questions about blogging and your blog? Share with me your experiences. Also, what do you feel about what I have written above?

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