Should You Start that Blog? Here’s an Easy Test to Find Out

If you think up ideas for new blogs pretty often, you should try out my test. I created it to help me stop wasting time on shiny new blog ideas.

I’ve actually gone and built full-featured Wordpress blogs just to realize that I only had 1 thing to say about the blog’s topic.

You should see how stacked my domain name portfolio is. Oh, and there are a lot of my abandoned Twitter accounts out there.

So nowadays, I do this little test before wasting money on a domain name or wasting time building a site.

The easiest way to test whether or not you should start your blog idea: come up with 20 or more blog post ideas in 1 day

Failing this test indicates 3 things #

1. You might not be passionate enough about this topic
2. You might not be knowledgable enough about this topic
3. There might not be enough meat inside this topic to begin with. It may be too narrow of a focus.

If you can’t come up with at least 20 content ideas in a day, you probably don’t have enough gas in the tank to take your blog the distance. And these days, you need distance to build an audience.

Supposedly it can take 1 to 2 years of focused, consistent effort to develop a significant audience for any blog (maybe more depending on the topic). Do you have at least 1 year’s worth of content in you for this topic?

If You Failed the Test, Do this Instead #

Start a personal, catch-all blog right here on Svbtle. Take all your random ideas and put them out into the Svbtle universe. This is the place for ideas.

And who knows? Maybe 1 of those ideas will put hooks in you and take you somewhere unexpected.