After the first week you realise there is one major obstacle you need to tame in order to be successful. How do you constantly progress in the right direction? It is so easy to get distracted and be unproductive. With no-one looking over your shoulder, it is up to you to succeed.

Ask yourself these questions to help plan you posts:

Ask yourself these questions to discover you blog tactics:

If these questions are not addressed early then you will find yourself working aimlessly a lot of the time. There needs to be a consistancy of work output to build a successful blog, so if you are working aimlessly you will soon feel discouraged and lose motivation. Anthony Robins says “Succcess doesn’t make you happy progression does”,  and in order to progress you must learn what you are heading towards. The clearer these goals are the easier they are to aim for.

Traffic from week 1

As you can see my traffic started out growing quite quickly but then hit a sharp drop. My growth in visitors has largely been due to the increase of twitter followers, now in the 900′s which is great. The spike was on a Monday and caused by a big chunk of people that checked their twitter after the weekend and found they had a new follower. The problem with the twitter traffic is that it doesn’t grow organically at the moment, it is based around my effort of finding interesting people to follow but I assume that as we go eventually it will start to grow naturally as more people tweet about the quality posts.

I am going to look into ‘developing more quality content’ in the next week.

Stay tuned..