The Tony Robbins Part…
People with no experience with blogging or building authority are doing incredible things in short periods of time with their blogs. You can too if your heart is in it. The thing that motivates most people is their goals. If you don’t have specific goals and realistic deadlines that push you to achieve greatness, your campaign is dead from the start.
Hint: “I want to make money” is not a goal.
A-List Bloggers, Current and Future, All Share the Same Traits
What I’ve noticed from every successful blog owner I’ve ever reviewed or consulted with is that they are motivated to learn and apply what they learn diligently. They don’t cheat or look for the easy way out (there isn’t one) and they will stop at nothing to see their goals realized.
1. They get up early and work before they go to their “real jobs.”
2. They come home and work into the night, often losing sleep to meet their deadlines.
3. They think deeply about content and their visitors’ needs.
4. They study their market and stay up to date on the relevant hot topics and capitalize on them to generate great, unique content.
5. They network heavily. From social marketing to doing “favors” for bloggers who are higher up on the food chain in order to gain favor with them. (Links being one big favor!)
6. They are thought leaders. Not just followers. They start conversations in addition to participating in conversations started by others.
7. They will do anything to meet a self-imposed deadline for content development, marketing goals and traffic benchmarks.
8. They are motivated by the lure of being financially independent to such a degree that there is almost nothing they wouldn’t sacrifice in the short term to see their long term success. (Most share sleep as the biggest sacrifice!)
9. They don’t expect anything to be handed to them. They earn everything they get as a result of hard work, creativity, and being a thought leader in their niches.
10. They never cheat or look for the easy way out and they don’t believe sales pitches that make schemes and scams sound like the mythical “instant reward” syndrome most new bloggers fall for.
11. Their content is superior, deep, imaginative, and always has a “hook” that almost forces new readers to subscribe to their blog to see what’s next.
12. They generate a hunger in their readership for the value they become known for producing in each and every post.
13. Their readership has a high return ratio. Example: This blog has a 37% return visitor ratio.
If you adopt these traits you will see significant progress in your blog’s growth, rankings, and links. It’s almost guaranteed.
Here’s A Case Study From A New Blogger Who Acquired 2000+ RSS Subscribers in 3 Months
Follow this guide laid out by Tina Su who wrote an excellent piece for ProBlogger recently. You can mirror her system to gain a lot of readers in a very short time.
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If you are working on a social marketing campaign for your site (you’d BETTER be) then a related story from Search Engine Land is essential reading today: “15 Fundamental Truths About Social Media Marketing“