My husband, Archie, and I started our blog in May.
We were new to the world of blogging and were looking for ways to get started right. We found a course based on recommendations from successful bloggers then started on our blogging journey.
Learning how to use WordPress to submit posts to our blog has been quite a process.
Lots of trial and error, tears, but fun times too! What excitement the day we published our first blog post! Woohoo! We were absolutely thrilled!
Since, we’ve determined that in order to grow our blog, there are just some things we CAN’T not do. We call them our “non negotiables” and today I’m going to share them with you.
One of our non-negotiables from the very first day of publishing was to post a blog post every day. This has to occur. No ifs, ands or buts!
Life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes doesn’t it? But you know what…
…It is all about choices too.
There have been times when we are so tired, or the dog is sick, or we just want to relax, or the kids need us, or the water pipes burst.
But, because publishing a post every day is a non-negotiable, these just become excuses. And excuses don’t count! So a post gets published.
Is it easy? No, sometimes it sure isn’t.
One day the post was published at 11:59 and 30 sec. Now that was cutting it close! But it happened.
We have now published a blog post for 116 days in a row.
Every day we comment and share on five to ten other blogs.
We truly read each post and then share it on Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites. We leave a good, well thought out and interesting comment.
We don’t write “good post” or “nice article.” Leaving a comment like that just shows the blog owner and your fellow readers (yes, they do read those comments) you don’t want to bother spending much time or thought on what you were reading.
We make it count, and making it count means being thoughtful.
QUICK TIP: Make sure you have a gravatar. You can get one at http://gravatar.com. This is important so that people can get to know your face, and “see you” commenting. Otherwise they will just know you as a little “box with no face”.
Commenting on other people’s blogs daily is a simple, yet it’s an effective way to build up trickles of traffic to your blog (that really begin to add up).
You will find that if you take the time to do this properly and leave good comments and shares, that people will reciprocate and do that for you on your blog as well.
We also make it a priority to reply to all comments made on our blog.
Following this process, we have seen a steady increase, starting with the number of comments and now we are seeing an increase in the number of shares as well.
Each day we make it a point to “meet” at least one new fellow blogger.
It is a real community and people reach out and help each other. We have made many new friends and more importantly, there is a sense of camaraderie, knowing we are bloggers too.
This is our way of adding in the “human element” for our business.
Our challenge for you today is to look at your non-negotiables, determine their value and take appropriate action.
If you don’t have any yet, this is a good time to establish some. Write them down.
Then, take action and implement your daily non-negotiables for your business.
Sigrid is a top up and coming MLM blogger. She's published a blog post for 116 days in a row. Little by little, she's turned a tiny trickle of traffic into a growing river, and it keeps getting better. Her dedication to the "non negotiables" is a model for even the gurus. A former microbiology laboratory technologist, Sigrid helps others make a business the perfect fit for their dynamic schedule. She is always finding new ways to help others achieve their dreams. Click the link below to visit her blog.
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