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Do you have them?
[This is part of the Blogging Foundations Starter Kit Series.]
Challenge Type: Strategy
Time Required: 2-5 minutes (Don’t think too hard!)
Impact: Could mean the difference between success and mediocrity!
Setting realistic yet challenging goals is just a healthy practice for you and your new blog!
There’s nearly an innumerable amount of benefits associated with goal setting so I won’t list those off but as I mentioned in the video make sure you do 3 things with your goals:
- Make sure you have them!
- Write them down!
- Tell someone about them, perhaps a blogging buddy!
Sweet!
Would love to hear some of your goals for your blog in the comments!
[This is part of the Blogging Foundations Starter Kit Series.]
It’s good your friends don’t take you too seriously
haha. seriously. keeps it more fun and down to earth.
My son has that same Elmo puppet!
Thanks for the ideas, John. 1,000 subscribers seems out of reach for me. I might have to shoot for closer to 50 or 100!
is that challenging enough for you?
By the end of the year Goals:
Goal 1. Have 100 subscribers.
Goal 2. Respond to every. single. comment. (providing I get one sometime)
Goal 3. 10 posts per week and one every work day.
Goal 4. Acquire 1 sponsor.
Goal 5. Make fun of bloggers who blog about blogging.
i like goal 5. go for it.
Goals:
1. Blog at least four times/week.
2. Have at least one blog post about the kids (with recent pictures) per week.
3. Have at least 1 post/week about what God’s doing in my heart.
4. Have at least 1 post/week about what God’s doing in my mind.
5. Respond to every comment posted for an entire week. (This will be the hard one to keep, but I think it’s probably the most important. I want to begin to cultivate the community on our blog in a more intentional manner.)
6. Try to convince Mike (husband) to blog once a week…we might need to start with 1x/month.
Hubby’s Goals for the blog:
1. Complete new re-design.
2. Upgrade to Drupal 7.
So, share with us: What are your goals?
And, clearly, I didn’t watch the video before commenting.
LOVE THESE! I like how you’re so specific! this will definitely help you. Is your husband your “blogging buddy”?
Goals:
1. Build up to a minimum of 4 posts per week.
2. Create a post plan including a list of potential topics for brainstorming purposes.
3. Create an environment where readers WANT to comment b/c the discussion is THAT good.
4. Shoot for 50 subs first and then on to 100 (that should take a while)
5. Continue to customize and refine STANDARDTHEME 2.0 (shameless kissing up)
Blog Management. nice
eh? got any goals?
1. Giving my blog some shape, other than just being random. (is that bad?)
, so work on that.
2. Post 2-3 times week
3. I have no subs
4. Get a Blogging Buddy
5. Leave Posterous , go back to WordPress. Hopefully get my jizaul.com going, dont have it yet.
6. Continue building an environment where it’s worth reading and sharing.
7. Seek followers and follow others my self.
8. Continue planning and learning.
sweet! these are great goals josue (how do you say your name?)!
Josue( Ho-Sue-Way)
It’s a Spanish name equivalent to Joshua.
Just like John is Juan.
sweet! thanks. always interested in getting names right.
Hey John.
I really love your goals – they are very sensible.
This is something that I am really going to have to think about and take into consideration – especially as I am blogging on about 5 different blogs right now! (Luckily I have someone helping me on 3 of those!)
5 different blogs? wow!
My blogging goal:
Work out WHY I want to blog.
This one has been haunting me for years. Argh!
ah. that’s a GREAT thing to be thinking about.
I found that this was the central question I had to answer I doing mine. Is started one several years ago, but then let it die because it didn’t have too much focus. Now, I have lots of focus, and I’m enjoying it.
that’s great bro! it seems like it from your video.
Dewde is my new hero. Elmo AND the cookie monster! Dang.
he’s annoying.
BTW… I set a blogging goal this week to do a post that would generate more than 3 or 4 comments on it. Released it today “Stop Waiting for Perfection” and also called in a few favors with some RT’s on the post link. Traffic on the post jumped 633% (so far today) from the previous day and I think I’m at around 10 comments. Goals are good to set and even better to achieve. : )
love this! that’s great execution. well played sir!
Execution is what I do.
Lol everyone pretty much has the same goals.
which is great, right?
John, How good do you trust alexa.com in order to get and compare websites statistics?
Any other ranking or stats services you trust?
Thanks!
i don’t trust any major systems like that. nope, not one bit.
enough research has shown that they stink.
So there is no way to know and compare traffic.
it’ll provide a general comparison but i don’t count it as gospel.
one thing i try not to do is simply compare, period.