Ultimate Blog Challenge
The Ultimate Blog Challenge began on Sunday and runs through to August 31st, 2021.
What is the Ultimate Blog Challenge? It is a challenge you can choose to accept, and if you do accept it, you make a commitment to yourself and to the Organizer to write 31 blog posts for one blog during the month.
Everything we do in our business should have an objective so that we’re using our time wisely. At the same time, as business owners, we want to spend more time working ON our business rather than IN our business. I have two blogs that I write blog posts for, and regularly submit articles to BIZCATALYST360.com where I’m a Featured Contributor and Columnist. I’ve also started writing and publishing on the LinkedIn publishing platform again. A few of my articles can be found on Medium and over 60 articles on eZineArticles.com. So, what is my objective? What is my Why for joining the Challenge?
Home on the Internet
Shortly after starting my online journey in the fall of 2008, I learned that my Blog is my home on the Internet. Since this is the case, I’ve been neglecting my home by not updating my blog on a consistent basis. For example, in the month of June, I uploaded only one blog post, and in July, I uploaded just two.
Because of the amount of content that’s on my websites, it’s okay if I do not write a blog post every day. However, it’s important to update my blog regularly, which could be once per week on the same day and time, or three times per week, with rich content so that readers, clients, and customers know that they can expect updates consistently.
Consistency is critical. Imagine if your favorite show was broadcast on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm for a few weeks, then you could not find it again because sometimes it’s at 4:00 pm on Mondays or 12 noon on Thursdays. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet, that’s essentially what we do to our readers when we do not have a consistent schedule.
Most important is that by answering questions my readers have, and providing value, I can be a resource for them and provide solutions, thus building the Know, Like, and Trust factor.
As digital marketers, coaches, and consultants, we cannot forget about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). So that’s an added incentive for my website to be updated regularly with keywords and keyword phrases in the content I write.
Topics I’ll Write About
Over the 31 days I’ll write about topics that come up a lot in my coaching: Mindset, with a focus on the entrepreneurial mindset; growing your business, including Marketing; and Client Relationships, Experiences, and Retention. I could deviate a day or so, but essentially these are the topics I plan to write about.
Added Benefits
Have you ever had someone tell you that they enjoyed reading your post or article? Yet they did not leave a comment to share that on the blog post. We can write our hearts out or is it hands out and we don’t know who reads our posts. Also, our blog can look pretty deserted if no one comments. By participating in the Blog Challenge, each of the participants will post their link in the Facebook Group and we’re each required to comment and like/share at least two other posts on social media.
Building relationships with other bloggers will be a natural off-shoot of this Challenge.
Thank you for reading, and I invite you to drop by this blog around 1:00 pm EDT every day for the next 28 days (this is going out on Day 3) to read my new post. If you’re so inclined, please leave a comment, or question, if you have one.
Would you be willing to commit to writing 31 blog posts in 31 days? If not, how many would you be willing to commit to? What question can I answer for you? Share in the comments.
