How to tell if you are a Serious Blogger

1. You have written an open letter. The letter didn’t do badly, you got some decent traffic and in the open letter you addressed people in an emotional and empathetic way, so you fully engaged with them to get your message across. You also tweeted this post to all available media outlets – it was featured in a few. Success!
2. You have at one point or another half-heartedly got involved with a charity thing. Aside from ‘giving back’ you also got great views, some worthwhile backlinks that shot your DA up a bit, and you proceeded to then tell everyone how it has ‘opened your eyes’. But it was only for that week because after that there was another bandwagon to get on.
3. You’ve probably reviewed yoghurt with a value of 99p for 6, while hustling a PR up to £150 for a link in another post.
4. Everything is an Instagram opportunity. But only if you can stand on a chair to get the right angle, and get it next to the window for the natural light.
5. You have a ‘corner’. This corner is untouched by humans hands other than your own and is ONLY to be used during a photo session where you photographed aforementioned yoghurt in 25 different ways.
6. You are a fan of the faded matte photograph. Your lightroom has a preset which makes all of your photos look like this.
7. You are a fan of very light white photographs. Your lightroom has a preset which… you get the idea.
8. You have been to countless blog events to learn new tips and tricks. You bring a new notebook and have the very best intentions. You do brilliant in week one and week 2 you forgot your login to the new site, with the feed, that streamlines your everything.
9. You blog stalk. You head to the blogs which you consider to be the very best and wonder if you can a) replicate their very nice layout b) if they have paid for it c) why you even bother blogging anymore.
10. You have on a few occasions, though you will never now admit it, used the #prrequest tag on twitter because you wanted something at blogger rates – i.e – at the cost of a review, tweet & Instagram picture.

Disclaimer: I do all that shit and more.