There are hundreds of reasons why a person would start a blog. Maybe you want to be famous. Maybe you want to share your knowledge with the world. Or maybe you just want to get rich.

These are all great reasons to blog, but if you want to be successful you must decide what outcome you want in exchange for all your valuable time and effort. The fact is all three of these goals do not necessarily go together.

For example, don’t strive to be famous and then expect the riches will flow naturally. There are lots of famous people who are almost penniless.

A good example is old actors who still have name recognition but have no money because they haven’t done a movie in twenty years. They are famous but they can no longer convert the recognition into monetary value. Just because the world knows your name does not mean you can gain fortune from your fame.

Likewise, if you are blogging to share your knowledge and your view of life with the world you may not become famous or rich. The problem is people may not really be interested in what you have to say or they may not think it is worth paying for. I am sure your opinions and views are important but unfortunately the people surfing on the web may not agree.

Lastly, you do not need to be famous or share your views in your blog to get rich. All you have to do is give your customers what they want. The key is to recognise the need your customers have and then charge them to fill it. That is all there is to it.

People are concerned about themselves and, as American sales trainer Zig Ziglar said, “you can get anything you want in this world if you just help enough other people get what they want.”

A lot of people are jumping on the Twitter bandwagon nowadays! Twitter is a mini social blogging platform that allow users to send updates to followers.

If you are a Twitterholic who finds it hard to twitter at work, behold!