Blog Redesign Part 1
If you have read my previous post I feel I need spend a little time re-thinking and planning my next steps for The Money Cult and this blog concept. My thought is to be completely open with this process and share my thoughts with everyone as I put together my action plan thought a serious of blog
posts over the next 2 weeks. This way I can get readers thoughts and opinions along the way. This exercise will cover some of my blog ideas, blog design and will result in a plan for this blog future.
Already I have received some valuable thought’s and encouragement and I expect that this will be a very good and helpful exercise. It seems when you share and take things to a personal level with your blog that draws a lot of feedback and helps with connecting with others which is really what it is all about.
The Goal of this exercise it to figure out my plan an action steps for the next 2 months in so I will have a clear path to focus on. This should also provide me with some insight to what I want to accomplish going in to next year.
To kick things off I going to start with a list of my areas of concern. Each of these should turn in to it own blog post or thread so I can dig deeper in to it.
Areas of Concern
Content – (topics, categories, frequency)
Traffic – (SEO, How to continue to grow)
Blog Design – (Time for worthy theme and re-design)
Realistic Goal’s – ( I like having goals and hitting them)
Making Money – (Needs to be discussed, blog vs. new products)
List Building – (My Aweber account is wasting away)
Helping other’s – (Good things happen to those that help others)
Time Management – (Part time blogger’s don’t have time to waste)
Getting others to promote and contribute – (Find ways to get others to help, win-win)
Parking Lot
This is a good list to start with looks like most of the key fundamentals are covered here. Please stay tuned as I dig deeper in to each of these area’s over the next couple weeks and hope to uncover the true blog concept and share some of my blog ideas in a public forum.
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Jared,
One of the things that I like the best about your blog is the way you pull back all the curtains and let us see what is going on behind the scenes. I’m still new at blogging so I won’t pretend to know where you are right now, but I have figured out that if you pour that much of yourself into your blog post after post then you better be writing about something you love. I wish you well on your journey, and I hope that I can at least be some encouragement to you as you go through it.
Brad
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Can not wait the evolving your blog. I think that I can learn much from it.
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Jared thats a great way of going about things, without a doubt the final product will be much better than if you just dove into it.
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Hi Jared,
Like Brad says it’s great that you are so open on your blog – and I think that if you follow your list of areas to address the results can only be positive.
Cheers
Will
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I think traffic, content, user friendly and seo friendly design, and setting realistic goals are the most important.
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