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The insanely slow road to building a blog (and why most people give up)
Building a successful blog takes longer than you might think. With patience, you can amass more readers than all the bloggers who give up too early.
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The truth about success is: it's not overnight. It's more like an iceberg. What you see is not what's underneath the surface - the reality of what it took to get noticed.
This is accurate. I've had a blog for over 10 years now. It takes time to even get good at a craft, let alone be successful. Sure, some people get lucky but it is the exception not the rule.