Lessons Learned from the Blog Challenge
Tomorrow is the finish line for the 30 day blog challenge (#blog30), organized by Jeanette Cates and Connie Ragen Green. This is the second one I’ve done in 2010.
I used this new blog, The Reasonista, for this challenge. The standard was that all posts were to be on the same blog.
Just for this June 2010 challenge, I’ve written more than 5000 words. That’s enough to make a book.
This project has helped me crystallize my thinking, with more to come.
Lessons from the blog challenge.
- Fit your blog into a larger business plan. How can the blog contribute to your larger business goals? Will it help you build a mailing list, or your online authority?
- Make the decision. It might seem daunting when you think about it, but if you think you can, you can.
- Feel for the focus. The direction of your writing and your blog will change over time. You will adjust as you go along, like the course corrections that the pilots make during an airline flight.
- Think in terms of campaigns or promotional themes. This will help you bring your posts together to build around a main subject, and generate more ideas.
This much writing has also helped me get better and write faster, both beneficial goals that will be useful in this and many other projects.
You bring up a good point. We do change over time even with goals set in place.
I also like to post around themes and campaigns. It seem to bring continuity to my blog and make it easier to plan and do research on.
I like your new site…boy 5000 words! Hope you have an ebook planned.
I’m tired! But it has been well worth it. It’s has me into a writing mode and I’m faster at it too.
I’m dropping back to about 3 days a week. I need to concentrate on some other business matters during the rest of the week.
It was great getting to know you. I’m going to continue following everyone as much as I can.
Yes…me, too!
I’m catching up on some networking that’s been lagging. Have you and some others on my radar to keep connected to.
Thanks!