How To Achieve Unstoppable Strategic Blogging
Are you interested in an unstoppable strategic blogging plan?
Would you like to know who or what is going to launch your path to success?
Happy Monday to you again! As I discuss in the video above, here is how to get started with strategic blogging.
It Starts With A Dream
- Before you can create a great strategy that will take your blog to the next level you have to decide on what your goal is. Once you have that you can then start mapping out your path.
- Michael Stelnzer of Social Media Examiner offers a great solution on strategy and I agree with him. He says that strategy is focusing on people. Give people what they want. Don’t know what they want? Michael has that answer too:
They want great information, They want access to great people, They want recognition.
Whatever your goal and however you strategize, having people, your readers at the core of what you do is going to launch your path to success.
Once your know your goal, it is now time to develop ways to get to that goal. These ways have to be measurable, assessable, and achievable.
Example:
Goal: To Increase Traffic to my site
- Increase Blogging to 5x a week
- Increase Social Media Marketing by creating a Facebook, Pinterest, and a Twitter page.
- Post to Facebook at least 1x a day
All of those ways can be measured. You can come back in a month and literary cross of each of one that you have accomplished. And while you are crossing off your accomplishments you can also check to see if those ways are helping you to achieve your larger goal.
If they are not helping, that’s OK, change it up. If they are helping, give yourself a pat on the back!
Have you found strategy to be helpful as you tackle your blogging dreams?
This is great and will definitely help me in my new blogging journeys for the SSC! I will definitely be referring back to these! Thanks!
Judy, thanks for commenting and good luck with your new blogging journey!
Blogging is one of my passions. As is marketing. Put the two together and it’s natural that I market my blog. LOL that’s really the strategy. A good marketing plan.
Martha, that’s a great strategy! Thank you for commenting.
I use the same strategy for planning social media strategy for all my clients! We start with a goal, then tactics and then a content strategy! Loved your article!
Dorien, that is a great strategy and it seems to be working. 🙂
Hi Christine
“Measure”, “Assess”, and “Achieve” — the types of goals every blogger should shoot for!
I’m with you … Martha Giffen nailed it. 🙂
I think it’s worth mentioning — before you can set any blogging goals at all, you need to be crystal clear on the “purpose” of your blog. There’s no point in posting a smattering of this-and-that unless your blog is personal in nature and you’re blogging just for the sake of creating an online journal.
Happy to find out you played soccer. One of my daughters played on two teams simultaneously — a recreational league and a travel club team. Yikes!! What a crazy experience that was! 😉
Melanie, Thank you for mentioning the importance of the blogs purpose! I write for multiple blogs and each one has a different purpose. I customize all my goals to suit that blogs purpose. Thanks for the comment.
This is just in time for me to start planning for 2013! I need to blog more than I did this year.
Shannon, Thanks so much for the comment. Increasing the amount your blog is a great strategy.
I need to blog more, that’s for sure but 5x a week on just my own stuff scares me! 😉
Kerry, yes I agree 5x a week can feel really overwhelming. Check out these articles and let me know what you think. 🙂
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