People often hide their subscription form and then complain that nobody subscribes. Make it very easy for people to find your sign-up form. Top right on your sidebar or just above your main navigation bar are two good places.
Maybe you’ve tried everything on this list, and you’re still not feeling it. Let your readers know. You might be surprised by how they respond, and maybe come up with a few words to remind you why you fell in love with blogging in the first place.
I’ve never personally completed an eBook. Some of you have, and have some good responses. However, I personally go through the process of starting and before I know it, I realize that there is a whole new section of my blog that can be opened. Personally, I don’t think it matters whether you finish or not, but the action of creating content as a whole helps in figuring out what you are passionate about, and what you have to say about that particular topic.
Like narrowing down your niche, trying a new post series can help your blog in the same way. Limiting your options. If you plan out an editorial calendar once a week, a post series can help fill in that slot. Like “Tech Tuesdays” or “Makeup Mondays” This post series will focus you on a specific topic that your readers might really enjoy!
It’s amazing how contributors can help add a new perspective to your blog. Perhaps they have ideas you never thought of. Perhaps you can work together and create a synergy that didn’t exist before. Either way, it’s good to bring someone on to mix it up, if anything to give you a break. Maybe you have a friend who wants to write, but doesn’t want to maintain a blog, or maybe you have a really great friend who would like to be your partner. There are many options for various budgets!
Maybe you just need a good friend who is always frank with you to discuss your blog’s direction. Maybe no one is interested in your blog’s topic, or you haven’t found where your potential readers are. Maybe you need to work on a few things like visuals or text. Maybe it’s too personal, maybe it’s not personal enough. Talking to someone else can help you see your blog from another angle and give you a new perspective.
Kind of like getting a new pair of shoes or a lipstick. Maybe your site just needs a bit of a makeover. Give your site a new lipstick by updating your header, or picking out a new font for your post text. Maybe you want to customize your buttons. Or maybe you want to go whole-hog and get a new theme and brand identity. I think it’s best to do this at least once or twice a year. The one thing about design is that with technology advancing you can never be done forever, and you always want to look up to date.
Editorial calendars are amazing. They not only keep you focused on the content you create from day to day. It helps you to have an overview on your content for that period of time, I usually like to work a week out ahead of time, sometimes two weeks at the most.
This might be counter intuitive, but trust me. Limiting your options helps your creative process. It’s been said again, and again and from my own experience it’s so true. Your blog might be about “fashion” or about the things you like, but how easy is it to get lost in a sea of things you like on the internet? Narrow down your niche, and quite possibly narrow it again if the niche is too broad. You would be amazed by how specific people are when it comes to finding content, and even more amazed about how passionate these readers are.
Whenever I blog myself into a corner, I stop and think back to why I started in the first place. Believe it or not, it really helps. Whether you started as a hobby, to improve your writing, to start a new career. It’s good to go back and put your previous goals in context with your life right now. You started blogging for a reason. We all did. Whatever that reason was, it was compelling enough for you to create something. Maybe, just maybe, it will compel you to create some more.
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