1 more day to go before we wave 2010 goodbye. It will be a brand new year for all. This will be the last post of 2010 for Findmyblogway. I am fully enjoying my blogging in this valuable year. What about you? Did you achieve your goals this year? Have you done what you supposed to do or did you missed some task that you are supposed to complete?
Whatever you have/have not done, no point looking back with regrets. We should be focusing on the coming year as a brand new start allows you to chase back some lost time. What can you do to become a better blogger in 2011?
Here are 10 tips for your consideration:
1. Define your goals
What do you want to achieve in 2011? Sit down and think about it. The competition in blogging is getting tougher as years pass by. You need to keep your hee-ha attitude in check if you want to achieve something in 2011.
Be more serious. There are no more rooms for you to get away with a slack attitude. Set your goals and achieve it.
2. Plan your strategy
Apply what you have in mind. Work out a strategy will help you to focus and complete the task in shorter timeframe. Record the task you want to complete somewhere in a document file which you can access easily. Set a timeframe for each task and wipe it off once each task is completed.
3. Learn from your mistakes in 2010
This is the time for some self-reflection. What mistakes have you done in 2010? I am pretty sure you have done something right as well as something wrong this year. Keep your good blogging habits and throw away those that doesn’t help you.
4. Double your efforts
You may think you have put in a lot of hard work for your blog. There is always room for improvement. If you comment on 10 blogs per day, aim for 20 blogs. If you are commenting on 20, aim for 40. If you can attract 10 subscribers/day, try to aim for 20.
Double your efforts in your blogging activities will definitely see a growth in your blog for 2011.
5. Get your hands as dirty as you can
Fear will just hinder in everything that you do. Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. In fact, you should get your hands as dirty as possible. By getting your hands dirty, you will get an idea of what works and what doesn’t work. Execute and take action is what you need most in 2011.
6. Be more active in Facebook and Twitter
These two social media sites will be ruling 2011. They are the most commonly used by bloggers in 2010. You should be making full use of it. More and more bloggers will be installing a Facebook fan page in their blogs and Twitter has been the most popular medium for announcement when a new post go live.
If you are not using them in 2010, make sure you don’t give them the miss in 2011.
7. Don’t ignore mobile technology
Mobile technology is on the rise. I have talk about how a smartphone can help you in your blogging. People are using smartphones to access our blogs. As a blogger, you need to understand a mobile is not used simply by calling today. People are using them to do lots of things. emails, Facebook chats, Twitter chats, surfing web, reading blogs etc.
If your content is not access easily by a mobile platform, you need to make sure it works on mobile platform.
8. Engage more with other bloggers
Writing exceptional content alone will not be sufficient to bring you huge traffic in 2011. Engaging and networking with other blogger should be on par with your content. Gone were the days when you publish an exceptional post and expect to welcome huge traffic. People love to interact more in 2011.
Make sure you are not left behind. You need to come out and start communicate with people.
9. Polish your skills
You need a lot of skills to succeed in blogging. The knowledge we need to cover is very wide and we need to pick up skills to help us become a better blogger. Whatever it is, learn whenever we can and do not hesitate to do some research on the internet. It’s all there for us to pick up.
10. Learn from people who has done it
Keep on learning and don’t hesitate to learn from people who has done it and see results. An example someone you can learn from is Onibalusi Bamidele from YoungPrePro. He just got his 1000 subscribers under eight months and that is a great achievement. It’s very generous of him to write a free ebook to share with us how he achieved that. You can download the ebook here. There are great tips inside and do practice what the ebook teaches. I believe you will see the benefits soon.
Have you set any goals for 2011? Are you ready to become a better blogger in 2011? What have you done to prepare yourself for a better year? Please do not hesitate to share with us your thoughts.
I hope by now you are all ready and well prepare to await for the arrival of 2011. Findmyblogway would like to wish everyone of you GOOD HEALTH and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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HI Lye
You are certainly writing some quality posts and this is one of them
Agree with you that writing down our goals and having them in a document will give us a place to check our progress. I am going to publish mine as a post next week.
I’m sure that there will be things I add as I move along with my blog and business in 2011.
Happy New Year Lye and may it be all you hope for and more.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Pat,
Thanks for the kind words. It’s great that you write your goals down in the post form as we will be monitoring you along the way
I hope you have a great year and wish your blog will be growing bigger next year.
Lye
Awesome post Lye. It’s high time we start learning from our mistakes. I have a lot of loopholes to pin up, and 2011 is the year to pin up those loopholes. Sure, I will double my effort. Thanks for sharing. Have fun
P.S: won’t you send me my new year gift? Haha.
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Hi Samuel,
We do make mistakes but we just need to learn from them. There are lots of time to make up with it, we just need to have a plan.
At the moment, i can only afford my best wishes to you
Thanks for dropping by.
Lye
Hi Lye,
Thanks for sharing your accurate tips here.
Getting your hands dirty is on point. Experiment, experiment and experiment some more. It’s been said that a rocket fails itself to it’s goal; 95% of the time it’s off target but the rocket continues to correct itself until the destination is reached.
Bloggers are no different
Have a Happy New Year!
RB
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Hi Ryan,
I am especially focus with this as these words apply to me. I intend to get my hands as dirty as possible in 2011.
I like your analogy of the rocket
Thanks for the comments. Have a great year ahead.
Lye
Hey Lye,
2011 is definitely going to be the one year that I’m going to do everything that i can to make sure that it totally rocks.
Enjoy new years!
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Hi Peter,
I am sure you have lots of stuff coming up from your sleeves in 2011. It will surely rocks and keep on rocking.
Enjoy your new year too.
Lye
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Nice tips for bloggers who want to succeed in the field of blogging. Novice as well as experienced bloggers can learn from your this blog post.
Great! keep writing such a great post.
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Hi Technosuman,
I will be very please if this post helps. It will be a brand new year, so we need to rise up to the challenge of the goals we have set.
Thanks for dropping by.
Lye
Lye – Sadly I would have to say no. No I didn’t accomplish all that I wanted to accomplish this year, but I learned more than enough to accomplish even a bigger goal in 2011.
I liked all ten of your tips, but I really loved the message you had in number 4. Doubling my efforts is something I plan to do in this upcoming year and I know it’s going to be a lot of hard work but I’m ready to take on the challenge.
Thanks for the advice and I hope you have a successful 2011 year as well. Happy New Year.
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Hi Kerry,
2011 will the year which you can chase back some lost time. These 10 tips are essential to me too as i am using them as a reminder to myself.
Thanks for the comments and i wish you all the best in 2011.
Lye
Hi Lye:
My first time to your site, but I have seen you networking on other blogs so I sort of know you.
Well I read your post, you have an outstanding style of your own.
Nice post that tells a blogger what goals to make tonight before the ball drops and it is 2011,
Happy New year to you
fran A
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Hi Fran,
Hope you have a great new year. Nice to meet you and thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.
It’s great to hear some encouragement words along the way especially it comes from you.
Thanks for the comments. Talk soon.
Lye
And don’t forget, realize that it takes huge amounts of time to truly achieve the success you desire.
Every little bit counts!
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Hi Barbara,
Great to see you. Definitely, time and patience are something that we always require in blogging. It will be tough without them.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
Love your #8th. As for #2, I never bothered developing a strategy, I just write about whatever crosses my mind at the time. Love the fact that whenever I write a crappy post I get a bunch of comments
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Hi Chris,
Strategy are plans for you to achieve your goals. However, i like the fact you only write when you feel you want to. It truly represent how you want to run your blog and your personality.
It means you have a bunch of loyal readers visiting your blog and that is good news.
Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment.
Lye
This post really helped me visualize where I need to be going with my blogging life. Thanks for the great information and I’ll be back for more great posts like this one.
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Hi Jared,
Nice to meet you. I am really glad you find some value in this post and i wish you success in your blogging. I will be looking forward to see you again.
Thanks for the kind words.
Lye
Hi Lye,
I think you’ve listed some great pointers there. For me, point #3 has been something that I’ve learned a lot this past year. I think it is with mistakes you get to learn how to improve your blog and make it better than it was. I wish you all the best for the New Year, Lye
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Hi Bryan,
Thank you very much for your well wishes. It’s actually good to make mistakes especially in blogging. We just have to ensure we don’repeat it.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
What a fantastic post to start the year!
Really succinct and yet you covered all the powerful points that can definitely make you a better blogger in 2011.
Have an awesome one!
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Hi Alex,
Great to hear from you. Thanks for the great support. Here’s a great 2011 to you.
Lye
Hello Lye,
Great post, and great advice! I have a couple questions though:
In regards to #6 – What advice would you give for engaging people on twitter? I know there’s plenty of advice about this all over the internet, but what has worked for you?
As far as “getting you hands dirty” goes – If someone is outsourcing different aspects of their blog, which duties would you recommend be kept “in-house”? And vice-versa, what aspects of blogging do you think can be safely outsourced?
Thanks again!
~Dave Grimes II
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Hi Dave,
I have a high percentage of traffic coming from Twitter. Thanks to the retweets by my blogging friends. I like to use Twitter in engaging with my blog friends. It’s an useful tool for interaction.
I think what duties to outsource depends on individuals. For me, the design aspect is definitely one i will be outsourcing.
Thanks a lot for asking.
Lye
Ah, ok. The trouble I’ve always had with twitter is that, with the limited characters (140), it can be difficult to engage anyone, and not sound like a spammer. Do you have any tips for avoiding this pitfall?
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Hi Dave,
140 characters normally is enough for me to express my thoughts. I just keep it short. Anytime you want to write longer than 140 characters, you can make use of BigTweet which enable you to write 280 characters.
Thanks for asking.
Lye
Actually, rather than doubling your effort, try to add a new skill to your repertoire to be more efficient. I find that actually over time, I’m discovering new methods to run my blog more efficiently. I’m actually getting more results on less time, but it comes from experimenting and doing different things.
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Hi Richard,
This is another good tip to become a better blogger. How do i miss that? Thanks for the input.
Lye
Very good collections listed out here, i love the 2nd and 4th actually. good job.. go ahead promoted the post.. Thanks
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Hi Preveen,
Much appreciated for the promotion. Thanks for the continue support and visit.
Lye
Hello Lye,
first time for me year.
Thanks for sharing this post, great advices!
For me most important is :
n. 3. Learn from your mistakes in 2010
But also learn from experienced people,
I found it very important, also in 2010.
My best wishes for Wonderful 2011 to you .
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Hi Erik,
Nice to meet you and welcome. Thanks for visiting and the comments. You have a great 2011 too.
Lye
Great post, Lye!
Embracing mobile technology… Oh boy. That’s something I definitely need to do. My phone is a dinosaur. It’s 6 years old. I look at my blog’s statistics every day and it’s definitely true that people are looking at my blog from their phones. I guess I should probably look into this whole mobile thing more… Thanks for the kick!
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Hi Tristan,
Sad to say, i can’t live without my iphone now
. It’s a great virtual assistant for me. Thanks for the support and comments. Have a great 2011.
Lye
Hi Lye,
The first point is definitely solid. In order to start acting and do the right things, you need to have a pretty clear idea of what you want to achieve. Setting a goal is not as easy as it sounds though. Either way whatever the goal, dreaming big (or in other words dreamlining – a term I discovered over at Steve Scott’s site) is the key . That way you can give 100% and even though you might not achieve the initial goal, you will still get a lot further than you would normally.
Especially agree on your fourth point as well. There’s always space for improvement and we should utilize it, no matter how small it is. It might seem hard, but at the end it proves to be well worth it.
Great work! Agreed on all other points!
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Hi Daniel,
Definitely, having a clear idea is important as it allows us to have a smooth workflow.
Glad that you agreed with all the points and i wish you well in 2011. Have a great blogging year ahead.
Thanks for the wonderful comments.
Lye
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Lye, such great points you have listed here man..I love it!
Your insights are to the point for making any blogger blog better in 2011.
Hope you and your loved ones are having an awesome new year Lye.
Later on man!
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Hi Adam,
Thanks for the wonderful support. I hope we both have a great 2011. Cheers.
Lye
Hello Lye… Great post!! Those tips were very helpful indeed. Thank you so much for sharing this great post that you have in here. I will surely be visiting your blog every now and then.. keep it up!!
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Hi Zutchelli,
Nice to meet you. Glad you find this post helpful. Thanks for the support. I hope to see you here often.
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Hi again Lye, congrats for writing another great article as usually. All the points are good but point 5 is a little too risky, isn’t it easier to read on forums, ask other bloggers/experts etc. what is allowed to do and what isn’t ? And what about link exchanging, isn’t it another great method of being a better (known) blogger? hehe. Cheers mate !
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Hi Latief,
Point #5 is more on taking action. Reading forum, ask experts can help you to gain knowledge but you still need to get your hands dirty.
Thanks for sharing your views.
Lye
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It is late into 2011 but then I must say that these tips are all very useful. As a blogger having goals is very important as you can have a target of what you want to achieve by a certain time. Planning also goes hand in hand with setting goals as you have to plan on how you are going to work to achieve your goal.
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Hi Caesar,
Define a goal, planning and research are the keys for us to follow and work our way to success. No matter which year we are in, these are the essentials we can follow.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye