{"id":23687,"date":"2017-12-18T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=23687"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:11:59","slug":"professional-blogging-lessons-by-andrew-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/professional-blogging-lessons-by-andrew-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Blogging Lessons by Andrew Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrew Chen<\/a><\/strong> is a well-known writer and entrepreneur focused on mobile products, metrics, and user growth. He’s been blogging for over 10 years and has published 650+ essays which have been featured and quoted in The New York Times, Fortune, Wired, and WSJ. Andrew is also an advisor\/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Dropbox, Kiva, Product Hunt, Qualaroo, Wanelo, Gusto and more.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, we all can learn a lot from Andrew. Here are a few useful blogging lessons<\/a> that he has developed up along the way:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Titles are 80% of the work, but you write it as the very last thing. It has to be a compelling opinion or important learning.<\/li>\n
  2. There\u2019s always room for high-quality thoughts\/opinions. Venn diagram of people with knowledge and those that can communicate is tiny.<\/li>\n
  3. Writing is the most scalable professional networking activity \u2013 stay home, don\u2019t go to events\/conferences, and just put ideas down.<\/li>\n
  4. Think of your writing on the same timescale as your career. Write on a multi-decade timeframe. This means, don’t just publish on Quora\/Medium.<\/li>\n
  5. Focus on writing frequency over anything else. Schedule it. Don\u2019t worry about building an immediate audience. Focus on the intrinsic.<\/li>\n
  6. To develop the habit, put a calendar reminder each Sunday for 2 hours. Forced myself to stare at a blank text box and put something down.<\/li>\n
  7. Most of my writing comes from talking\/reading deciding I strongly agree or disagree. These opinions become titles. Titles become essays.<\/li>\n
  8. People are often obsessed with needing to write original ideas. Forget it. You\u2019re a journalist with a day job in the tech industry.<\/li>\n
  9. An email subscriber is worth 100x Twitter or LinkedIn followers or whatever other stuff is out there. An email = a real channel.<\/li>\n
  10. I started writing while working at a VC. They asked, \u201cWhy give away ideas? That\u2019s your edge.\u201d Ironic that VCs blog\/tweet all day now ;)<\/li>\n
  11. Publishing ideas, learnings, opinions, for years & years is a great way to give. And you\u2019ll figure out how to capture value later.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Learn about each one of these in more detail here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Andrew Chen is a well-known writer and entrepreneur focused on mobile products, metrics, and user growth. He’s been blogging for over 10 years and has… 
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