I suspect that all the technical information you could ever need to be a successful blogger are there in the public domain. If this is the case, why do the vast majority of blogs fail when it comes to provide to the owner an income they can live comfortably on?
First of all, I think that many bloggers grossly underestimate the psychological aspect of blogs and what is necessary to get their heads in the first place.
Second, some bloggers that I spoke to start with a real plan or a goal to keep them on the right track if and when things do not go according to expectations. Simply, they dive into the process with no real idea where it will have.
Today, I want to show you a seven step process for setting goals that exponentially improve your chances of success with your blog.
You may well be familiar with the smart method of goal setting because there is already for decades. Bear with me while expanding on this process and make it way cooler and more useful for you - and much more likely to help you succeed.
Just in case where you're not familiar with SMART, let me give him a quick cross.
Is your goal specific enough so that someone else could read and know exactly what you mean? A goal of having a popular blog lacks this aspect because it is too vague and subjective.
I have a popular blog, but if I give my readers to Darren and took his in return that it would be quite unhappy with the agreement - it has about 40 times more than me.
"Owning a blog with less than 5,000 subscribers, earning $500 per month from AdSense" is the sort of goal that this element of the nails.
Using the last example, you can see at any point in time where you are in your plan. If you have 2 500 subscribers, you y to Midway. If you earn $400 a month, then you are 80% of the way towards this goal. It is important to keep your motivation from and for you to know if things work or not of having a measurable objective.
No purpose, if it wants to be a real goal requires input in a form any on your part. In other words, you must act and do something to get there. Lying in bed hoped people buy your ebook that you have not promoted properly is not a goal - it is the will or a dream and it is almost certain to fail miserably.
I am not big on this aspect of the smart method, because unless something is physically or scientifically impossible, then for me it is still realistic.
Darren had told people there eight years he was from a blog called ProBlogger and by 2011, there would be 150,000 subscribers and be one of the top 2,000 in the world according to Alexa, people would have been lining up to say it is unrealistic.
He was not, so don't worry too much to be realistic. Understand there is a huge difference between something being very difficult and impossible. Landing on the Moon was very difficult; It is impossible for landing on the Sun (unless you spend the night!).
It is probably the element most underestimated of smart goals. Without a period of time, targets are used to drag.
Most people are busy and, as such, are responding and reacting to events. Thus, without an end game in sight there are always more pressing for you to attend to the.
There is a big reason why people work more effectively to deadlines. This is because the brain kick a Minie fight-or-flight response, allowing them to focus more effectively.
OK, so this is the traditional model and is well and good, but I would like to help you make your goals even more effective in turning the chip in SMARTER.
When you set your goals to be aware of the effect they will have on you and you loved ones. If you want to be a problogger and intend to spend as many hours as necessary to achieve this goal?
How that may affect relations with friends and family? How it will affect your health and your social life? How you will pay the Bills that you build your suite?
The answers are not the reasons not to try, or quit before you begin. But these are things that must be taken into consideration now, so that they do further travel you on the road.
This is a really big one that I am concerned, and it is the thing that many people miss or just don't get.
What is your reward for having a blog with success?
I do not speak here of money: I am at a level deeper than this. We are talking about values and which is fundamentally important to you at the level of your identity.
What motivates really you? If you think only of money, that money gives you? Maybe it's freedom, peace, security, service, or perhaps you want to leave a legacy.
Doesn't matter really what it is, as you know. This is what is going to motivate you if and when things get hard.
If you cannot lead to a reason for which helps you out of bed 05 enthusiastic about the coming day, there is high probability that you will burn out sooner than later.
For example, I am a life coach because I like helping people. I earn so much money that I did when I worked in sales, but I am more happy path and, more important still, I know why I do what I do. Do you have?
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