How's your blog doing?

Published: Fri, 09/09/11

My newest niche blog is coming up on being 3 months old. The last 90 days have been a lot of fun! I only work on it about an hour a day, but I wish I had nothing else to do but just work on it around the clock -LOL. I'm sure you can relate. We all have the same 24 hours in a day.

Anyway, it made me wonder how things are going for YOU. If you don't yet have a blog online, you really should. Even if you have an online store or other kind of website, a blog is a great way to open a line of communication with your target market.

Here is an easy checklist to set one up:

http://www.clicknewz.com/1872/how-to-start-a-wordpress-blog/

Feel free to share that checklist if you have friends that are interested in starting a blog too.

My own blog is doing very well, especially considering how new it is and how little time I get to spend working on it. I just make sure that hour or so a day *really* counts. ;-)

I shared my marketing strategy for this blog in a new post yesterday, which is all free/organic methods. The biggest key is that I do ALL of these things, and it's the variety and consistency that has made the biggest difference:

http://www.clicknewz.com/3091/organic-marketing-strategy/

Definitely read through the 8 elements to my marketing strategy as I'm sure you'll pick up some tips or ideas that will help you with your own blog or website.

I share my secret to getting inbound links even if you *hate* link building. That one is working out very well for me...


Over the last week I've been studying Problogger's new guide too, which has some great practical ideas that I've been working with. It's actually an entire kit that comes with checklists, worksheets & tools.

See: http://www.clicknewz.com/3088/bloggers-guide-to-online-marketing/

A quick note: everyone who owns a copy is meeting live online this coming Wednesday (September 14th at 8pm Eastern) for a Q&A with Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett (professional bloggers) on Blogging & Blog Monetization.

There is no cost to attend live if you own the kit, and you can currently get the guide & kit for half off. They are recording the session too for anyone that can't make it live.

The details are at: http://www.clicknewz.com/3088/

Anyway, I hope this gives you some things to consider this weekend, and some ideas to get things moving along a little faster. It's a beautiful Friday here in Tennessee and I am off to put in an hour on my own blog. With my laptop on the back deck, of course!

Best,
Lynn Terry
ClickNewz.com

p.s. If you have any questions after reading through those links, you can leave a comment for me there. Or you can post questions on my Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/lynnterrybiz I'm always checking in from my mobile. ;-)