Improved Blog Focus … Helping You to Earn a Living from Your Writing
This morning I was over at skelliewag.org and I came across the post How to Get 1,050 Subscribers in 3 Months. “Wow,” I thought to myself, “1050 subscribers.” “I’d love to have 1050 subscribers!” was my next thought. Anyway, after reading through her post I was convinced to make a few tweeks to this blog.
First, identify your target audience.
Once you work out who you’re writing for you can cut out the topics that aren’t relevant to them. When a visitor feels your articles are consistently tailored to their needs they’ll be much more likely to subscribe.
Another key strategy is to make your target audience obvious. She does it in her header. Innovation. Ideas. Simplicity. For Bloggers, Webmasters and WebWorkers. I’m changing mine. It use to be Personal Development for Writers. After much thought, I’ve changed it to read, Creativity. Productivity. Profitability. Helping You to Earn a Living from Your Writing. I think that better states what I’m trying to accomplish with this blog. The next time you’re reading a blog post see if you can find out who their target audience is.
Third, provide valuable content. Quality is better than quantity. With that said, and keeping my readers in mind, I will ask myself “Is this the most valuable information that I can give to my target audience right now?” If the answer is “No.” I will not post it. To “steal” another idea from Skelliewag, “Don’t write about topics, Write for people.”
I hope this change in attitude and focus on my part will make you a more creative, productive and profitable writer. And, if you’re so inclined, subscribe to my blog.
Until next time…
Keep Writing!
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Great post, very insightful and spot on. I hope you’ll keep us posted on how it goes!
At any rate, just wanted to pop over and thank you for participating in the Inkthinker Query Challenge. I’m glad to have you on board as we head into the second month!
Kristen
http://www.inkthinkerblog.com