These are the 8 things I am glad I’ve been doing consistently as a 2-month old blogger. Now that I’ve set up the system as shared in the earlier post, consistency is key in an early stages of a blogger’s life. Having done 10 blogs to date, life is challenging with 0 subscribers and no surety of success in the future but hey, there is a plus too…0 stress and pressure 😁
1. Monitor Google Analytics
Far short of amazing in terms of absolute numbers, but I am actually amazed at how many people have discovered my page. As we speak, I have had 75 users visiting (I think this includes my own count) across 7 countries with average user spend time of 41s. I am impressed and wondering how people find out…I guess the internet is an amazing place. Makes me feel good about my efforts with respect to SEO! I will continue to share what google analytics tells me as I progress!
I have been checking in on a weekly basis at average, on google analytics. Just to see what data it’s showing me. Nothing too telling as of now, but I’m sure as I progress further, the data will come through where I need to watch and build into my blog strategy 💪
2. Monitor Amazon affiliate income
Ever since I started putting a few Amazon affiliate links in my previous articles, mostly for books I’ve learned from, I have been logging into Amazon Affiliate Central to see how I’m faring. Not great, 0 income to date but I’ve had 2 clicks! ❤️
I have been checking in once a week. Again, nothing exciting but it’s a data point I will be incorporating as I build my blog further.
3. Consistently blog every week on new things I learned
This is actually my 11th blog! I am happy that I’ve been consistent with a blog a week which is what I’d set out to do when I first started in May. My goal is to continue to write about what I’m doing at that moment through each stage of my blog journey. Hopefully this will resonate with my target audience who’s new to blogging or new in their entrepreneurial journey. This stage is the hardest due to the lack of certainty on future success, but what’s helping me is that I believe in my success.
I believe in consistency and grit and in myself becoming a successful entrepreneur, just as I had shared in my first blog on becoming my own role model, second blog on how I have gained 20 atomic habits…and still counting and my third blog on how I intend to achieve financial freedom. I hope that my readers will feel as excited about becoming their future self in whatever they aspire to be.
4. Consistently remind myself of my target audience and what they will find useful
I find this slightly more challenging. I have been journaling what my target audience is..to get to as specific a possible so that what I say can resonate better with the exact audience. I know this is probably the most important thing but I’d be honest, it’s been tough for me. I need to think more to exactly identify what my target audience is…I will get there! Idea for my next blog as I think through this point!
5. Consistently read top bloggers’ articles
I set out my goal on my 4th article that I would read 100 articles by top bloggers. I have read the 26th article as of today. Again, it’s being consistent that counts. Through this process, I am gaining insights into how top bloggers write; their style, their tone (e.g. how personal they sound), format (fonts, image/video insertions) etc. Lots to learn and I am enjoying the process as much as I am learning.
6. Consistently listen to interviews of top bloggers to get inspired
My new activity on my daily commutes is to listen to Youtube podcasts. I constantly tell people how I love Youtube. It’s so educational if you set out your goal as that. I’ve been exposed to many new entrepreneurs, especially those that started out as bloggers – Nathan Barry is one of my favourites. He gives good systematic and practical frameworks to think about, for eg. creator flywheel. Ali Abdaal is another. Ali Abdaal’s interview with Nathan Barry was so inspiring (despite it being 2.5h!) that I watched this twice. I probably have re-watched a video maybe 3 times ever in my life..this was one of them.
One thematic takeaway from watching various successful entrepreneurs across all industries is that they are were very normal people before they became successful and still are. They did not have crazy IQs, EQs, unreal backgrounds whatsoever. That’s what I love about learning about successful people..that they are normal people. Like you and me.
Successful people all had 1. specific goal 2. confidence in them meeting their goals 3. consistently worked at the goal till they met it. It’s as simple as that. That’s why I am so excited and confident that I will be successful in having my financial independence from blogging and building the community that finds value in what I have to share. Overall, why I believe I can be my own role model.
7. Strategise on incentives for joining as a subscriber. Create a product.
This is my bottleneck currently. I figured out that the bottleneck to getting affiliate income or product income is the lack of email subscribers.
This is a preview of what I’m going to do tomorrow. I took a day off to spend time with my good entrepreneur friend who’s visiting Singapore. We will be brainstorming for our business’s revenue strategies. I will think about what incentives I could provide for joining as a subscriber. If you have any ideas you’d like to receive from me, please leave in the comment box below. You know that I would read all comments 😀 and respond!
8. Leverage ChatGPT as an assistant
Customize ChatGPT in the Personalization section of your Settings to optimize the ChatGPT response output. I am in the process of experimenting this. For eg. I could be asking for potential blog contents, frameworks, data analysis…anything from this assitant. It’s up to you to use to your advantage for optimized leverage. As I have more personal experiences, I will share in the next blogs. For now, I have put in details like my profession, my responsibilities, knowledge/expertise, typical challenge, current projects, terminologies I use often in my field, goals, objectives. All this will help ChatGPT to provide responses more suited to what I’m looking for.
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