Happy New Year bloggers! The new year is here and it’s time to set some goals. Unless you’ve already done that.
According to a Harvard Business School poll, 3% of Harvard graduates write down their goals. Those 3% make twice as much money as the average of all other Harvard graduates. Why the big difference?
Goal setting is essential for business – any business. Blogging too. Goals keep you focused. When you write down your goals then you solidify them in your mind. You can go back and review them.
Goal setting is very powerful. Those who set goals and write them down usually have goals for different areas of their lives – spiritual, relationships, financial, hobbies. And I’m a big believer in goals. I’m also a big believer in blogging. Have you set your blogging goals? If not, here are a few areas of blogging that you might want to set goals for:
- Income
- Targeted traffic
- SEO performance
- Number of posts you’ll write this year
- Social bookmarking benchmarks
- Overall marketing expenditure
- Number of new customers
If you haven’t set any goals for your blog in 2008, now’s the time. Take 30 minutes to an hour and think about where you want your blog to go. What do you want it to do for your business? If you don’t set your goals you likely won’t meet them.
