Writing may be the most important skill you’ll ever have to turn your knowledge and skills into money. Why? Because there are a lot of successful cases, in the circle of programmers, pure smile, StormZhang, left ear mouse, Fenng big and so on these big men without exception are because of writing on the peak of life.
It’s really hard to stand out in a crowd of code writers, really, really hard, because there are millions of programmers who write code. But the number of programmers who can code and write is in the tens of thousands. There are only thousands of programmers who can write good code and articles — good people are scarce.
But if you only know how to write is not enough, because “wine is afraid of a deep alley”. If no one knows you, your writing isn’t worth anything at all. In my five-plus years of writing, I’ve created more value in the last four months than I’ve ever written before. The improvement of writing quality needs the accumulation of time and carving of years, but more need some appropriate methods.
There are many lovers of writing in my life who keep their heads down and even claim arrogantly, “I have no desire to read. I write mainly for myself; As for readers, I really don’t care.”
For a long time, I used to tell myself this, because the good thing about limiting myself was that I didn’t have to care about the quality of my writing, and I didn’t have to worry about being accountable to my readers. But gradually, I found myself losing the motivation to write. What’s the use of writing when no one is reading, no one is talking to, and no one is creating any value?
People, if they think, they can find a way. I found two, one easy to do and one not easy to do, but both worked surprisingly well.
01. The easiest thing to do is to publish articles on multiple platforms
According to my observation, a lot of big guys have recently settled their public accounts in CSDN. And the flow is really good, do not believe you see the picture below.
What are the benefits of registering an official account in CSDN?
First, CSDN will automatically synchronize the articles published by the public number, the author does not need any additional operation, save time and effort and worry.
Second, CSDN blogs have a huge readership, so writers can get extra exposure by writing once. Please allow me to gently tease you, the above article is actually very watery, except a few blinding frogs, really nothing else; But the title was enough to catch my eye that I couldn’t help but read it several times. In the long run, CSDN also needs to cultivate the recognition ability of the machine, and automatically filter out those low-quality public articles when synchronizing.
There are too many platforms for programmers to write, such as public account, Jianshu, Nuggets, CSDN, Blog Park, 51CTO, Zhihu, Knowledge planet and so on. However, according to my experience, multi-platform release does not mean the whole network release, or to choose a few of their favorite, suitable for their own platform to send.
My favorite platforms are CSDN and Blog Park.
Some people say that CSDN is getting rubbish. But before it became garbage, it had been brilliant, it was a boutique. Good and bad aside, I personally have a lot of respect for CSDN because my brand, Silent King ii, was launched on CSDN.
Blog park is a knowledge sharing community for developers, full of feelings. Since its inception, the blog park has been committed to and focused on creating a pure technical exchange community for developers, and the lack of advertising concerns the development prospects of the blog Park. In addition, blog park administrators will review articles, and if they are only general, they will quickly remove the front page.
The great thing about multi-platform publishing is that a tepid article on one platform may shine on another. Better yet, readers on multiple platforms give the same article a thumbs up; The bad result is that the article is not popular on any platform.
Of course, there are some pitfalls of multi-platform publishing, and that’s visual fatigue, because a single reader may sign up for multiple platforms. He gets bored when he sees the same article too often.
The practice of multi-platform publishing has been used by many bigwigs and is still used today. However, for some people, this is not a good idea. They think that publishing on multiple platforms is a waste of time and energy, and believe that publishing on one platform is enough. That’s why the easiest way to do it is often overlooked.
02, the hardest thing to do is to close to the big guy
According to my observation, more and more friends like to reward, for what? Some are paid for out of sheer love of knowledge, some because it is a relatively easy way to get close to the big boys.
It is no exaggeration to say that I can recognize many familiar heads in the following picture.
It is said that a programmer’s daily life, programmer Xiao Hui and Stormzhang form a tripartite situation in the programmer’s world. Can add to their “real” micro signal is really very difficult, difficult to grab train tickets during the Spring Festival.
To add Stormzhang to his wechat account, I first paid 299 yuan to join his Planet of Knowledge. As if he didn’t have time to deal with it, I spent another 99 yuan to buy geek Time courses promoted by Stormzhang, and then finally added his wechat account.
In order not to be eliminated, I would actively like and comment on his wechat moments every day, but Without exception, Stormzhang would not make any response. Because the truth is, I added this micro signal is a “fake”, only to synchronize the “real” content of that account.
This is a particularly cruel fact, when the bar is not high enough, you can only enlarge the guy’s trumpet. But why fight your way up to the big guy?
Because once our abilities are recognized by the big guys, the payoff is very high. To what extent? For example, the original article of the “Silent King ii” public account was reposted three times by Pure Smile, directly attracting nearly 400 followers. You know, before my article was not reprinted, the total amount of public concern is less than 400.
The advantages of being close to the boss are obvious. If he recognizes your abilities, he will share resources with you without reservation. If not, at least the profile picture gets a significant increase in exposure, and is lucky enough to be one of his first 17,777 followers, and even has more immediate news on moments than Toutiao.
If you want to ask, “What’s the secret to getting close to the big guy?” Just look at the facts I stated earlier. Of course, there is another way, I want to apply Mr. Hu Shi’s words: “close to the big guy the most effective way, is to exercise your material synthesizer.”
How can you train yourself quickly? In my own experience, it’s about writing outside of work. If you still want to ask me, “How can I write a good article?” I’m about to send you a message. Knock knock knock.
Is it difficult to write an article? Difficult! Why write when you can’t squeeze it out? Is life easy? It’s not easy to… Why do we have to go on living a bad life?
It is not easy to get close to the big man, just like climbing a mountain, the people who reach the top of the mountain are always very few, most people will choose to retreat. But you know, as long as you can get to the top of the mountain, you can enjoy the spectacular view.