The two strategies you have highlighted are incredibly important. Knowing your goals will help you to determine what you want to achieve and keep you accountable to yourself. At the end of the day no-one can do this work for you (unless you hire someone to do so), so it is up to you to make it happen. Only you know what you want to achieve and everyone has different goals.

I have a vision board sat next to where I blog, and I look at this all the time. It helps me keep focused and on track. It helps me account for my “why” and keeps my motivation high when things are getting difficult.

Evaluating what you are doing is incredibly useful to keep track of your goals. As everyone’s goals are different, everyone’s results are going to be different too. Whilt it’s great to have mentors and bloggers that you follow, it is important to remember that not everyone is going to necessarily get the same results as everyone’s approach is different. It is what makes us unique.

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The fact that you have taken a step back to look at the purpose of your blog, is fantastic. This will help you determine what social media platforms you should engage with, who your readers are going to be, what will interest them and what they would like to hear from you both on your blog and on you SM platforms.

It can sometimes feel like we dont have the time to step back and work on our schedules and our priorities, but like you said, it actually free’s up time later on. It is worth investing the time to really nut out what it is you want to achieve and how you want to do it. It certainly sounds like you are on the right track with this!

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Great post here.

Just want to point out a few key points you made that I completely agree with.

1. Set Goals

Too many times people get lost, or fail on the internet is because they don’t have a specific structure set in place outlining their goals and what they plan to accomplish. Setting goals for yourself and having reminders about those goals nearby (on a sticky taped onto your computer screen) can make all the difference in the world because it’s a constant reminder.

2. Evaluate what’s working and what’s not.

This is huge, I think because so many bloggers tend to do things because they “heard” it working for someone else. Rather than test it out, they go all in with it but they don’t monitor the results. Since blogging should be taken as a business, you should ALWAYS be evaluating certain aspects of your blog to know what to improve on.

Like you said, constant review will keep you on track.

Great post here. Thoroughly appreciated it.

Hope you have a great rest of the week.

- Andrew

I agree Facebook can be the biggest time sap, and Google+ is becoming like that too! I love how you have a time limit and exactly know your purpose when you visit these sites. It will mean that you are effective and make absolute use of the time available to you. When you don’t set yourself a time limit, there is the temptation to let time slip through your fingers.

Spending the time focusing on connecting with other bloggers on their blogs and on your own should of course be a priority.

Thanks for the compliment about Triberr. I am really trying to get stuck into it as much as I can, and build as many networks as possible.

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4 is such a huge biggie. People who spend a set time on social media sites boost their effectiveness. Sites like Facebook can be huge time saps. I love these tips.

I’m in and out within 5 minutes on every social site. 10 minutes tops. No matter how many @replies or Facebook chats I see, I get off of the network because blogging is my home base.

Social is important but so is getting off of social sites to connect with bloggers through their comment fields, and responding to people through my blog is also paramount.

When you do work social, be brief. Of course no rushing but it really helping to make a number of impacts throughout the day as you stick to your disciplined sked on these sites.

Thanks Catherine, super smart post.

Tweeting through Triberr. BTW, great work on Triberr, you’re all over the place over there

Ryan

The problem of course is that it is just sooo much fun…lol

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