We admit, guest blogging is not for everybody, and it requires you to work and put in solid effort. Probably the one thing that will help or hinder you is the quality of your writing. Since you are new and your blog maybe is not highly ranked, you will need to work with smaller blogs at first. All we can do is help educate you, and then you have to go out there and do the work and pound the pavement.
No matter what you do in business and marketing, you will need to state your case as well as possible. The ideal is to have written content apart from your blog that you can reveal to them for their reading. Also, consider that you would do the same and would want to evaluate written works.
Things like that impress some people because it shows care and initiative. Just as long as you do not over-burden the person, then you will be fine. Some blogs may be different, but we have seen the typical thing where you have to write and submit your content before anything else. When they see what you want them to publish, then they will be able to make a decision right there on the spot. Many blogs we have seen have their list of what is needed if one is interested in guest blogging. But you may find some variability with this since it is up to the owner’s discretion. But in the end if you annoy a blogger enough, then that person may just ignore your post submission.
If it is possible, think of ways you can fulfill the requirements as well as provide a little more in a positive way. Help yourself and the blog owner with some promotional activity that of your own once it is live.
If you have time to do this, then it is great but not always completely necessary to do. This is how the top guest bloggers work and this is how you should aim at working too if you want to achieve long term success with your blog. The way the web is today, it has never been easier to build your guest blogging empire. But you really need to be committed to the process of getting started. Sure it takes some time to make this all happen, but it will begin to pay off if you really put the effort into it. So just do what you know needs to be done, and work on the quality of your content so it is not an issue.