TimScullin.com » Follow The Journey http://timscullin.com Blog Tips For "Beginners" Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:52:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Journey – Week 1 http://timscullin.com/blogs/the-journey-week-1 http://timscullin.com/blogs/the-journey-week-1#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:53:28 +0000 Tim Scullin http://timscullin.com/?p=232 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.

Tips for new bloggers:

Ask yourself these questions to help plan you posts:

  • Who is my target audience?
  • What do they want to know about?
  • What do they want to read… etc

Ask yourself these questions to discover you blog tactics:

  • What is my strategy to build the blog?
  • What are my strongest posts (‘Pillars’) going to revolve around..
  • How much time do I want to spend working on the blog?

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

Post Spike Crash

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..

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Hey ya’ll!

Good to see you made it.

To find out more about my story click here.

What’s The Journey About?

This blog is the culmination of my research and experience to date. My posts are a bread crumb trail to follow and ultimately will outline the best strategy to build a blog, increase the traffic and then monetize that traffic. I am starting from complete scratch. I have no existing following, no database, no super-blog mentor to train me. I am simply gleaning the best information from the web, implementing it and then posting what works and what I have learnt.

As you follow me on my journey it is my hope that you will enjoy the content and find some useful tips that help you on your journey. Best of luck!

If you have any topics you want more information on let me know.

If you have any tips I would love to hear them!

On twitter? I’ll see you there.. - Teeskie

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Broke Neck.

One day in November of 08 I made a crucial mistake when jumping a breakwater wall and ended up landing on the rocks going very fast. I was knocked unconscious and luckily I had a friend there who knew what he was doing and pulled me from the water. When I “came to” about 30 minutes later I felt it was important to share what I was feeling so the Life Guard could make the right decisions.

“I have a sore neck and a numb arm”, I say.

Only to hear the response from the Lifguard standing over me,

“Yes we know. You have been repeating yourself for the last 20 minutes”

The next few hours is a blurr, resulting in being hospitalised and informed that I have 6 broken vertebrae! Awesome..

So after 3 months in a neck brace and wondering what I should do once I get better, I stumbled accross the idea of blogging, but then quickly realised I had no idea how to do that.

This is where my Journey begins..

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