I suggest that you think about your audience and your goals. Make sure you know what you are trying to accomplish with your blog and then think about ways you can go about doing that. Also- keep it interesting. Stay relevant and try to tie in current social events when you can. Good luck!
For blog, unique content is very essential and it should be very informative.Atleast post one content daily and do bookmarking, directory etc. To get more traffic, share your post to digg, stumbleupon, reditt, delicious & tagza. Through the voting , try to popular your story in such top bookmarking sites and then see what's you get response.......
Yes follow entrepreneurs-journey.com blog and also smartpassiveincome.com blog best sources that I have read.