Build Your Blog in 2015!

Get ready to Build Your Blog in 2015! #BlogginMamas #BuildYourBlog2015 #2015Ready #BeABetterBlogger

It’s a new year, and new you, and time for a new start on your blog! Whether you are a new blogger, or a veteran blogger looking for a new start, the new year is the perfect time to kick it into high gear and make a commitment to your blog.

Create an Editorial Calendar

This is your plan for the year. It can be as specific as you want it to be. Make broad topics for each month, or schedule specific posts you plan to write. Make sure to set and meet your scheduled deadlines. You are running your own business; you need to hold yourself accountable. Here is an example of an editorial calendar for the year. Pick your topic for each month, and the deadline for submitting or posting each article. Remember! You CAN write your posts ahead of time and schedule them to post in the future. This will save you a ton of time in the long-run and it will keep your readers coming back for more original content.

Create a goal-setting sheet

You should set at least 3 major goals for your blog over the next year. If you don’t have a goal in mind, you don’t have anywhere to go! You need a vision in order to achieve success. Your goals should be realistic, measureable, and achievable. Having clearly defined goals is what is going to help you focus on what you need to spend your time on over the next year. Otherwise, you might as well be wandering around in the dark! If you have been blogging for a while already, start by looking back over the previous year. What worked, what didn’t? Expand from there. Each of your goals should have specific objectives to be measure the goals success. For example, if your goal is to gain more followers on Facebook, specifically how many would you like to gain, and by when. Maybe you would like to gain 10 new followers each month for the next 3 months. Then, each objective should have an action. How specifically do you plan to achieve this? You can start your goal planning using the following goals sheet:

Create a Pinterest Vision Board

Gather a ton of images, visuals, motivational quotes, and pick-me-ups for when you are feeling like you don’t know where to go next.

Pin things like:

• What would you like to blog about?
• What would you like to learn about?
• What kind of images and quotes inspire you?
• Where do you see yourself traveling?
• What do you imagine your home office looking like?
• What are you blogging goals?
• What foods do you enjoy?
• What do you like to do with your family?
• Anything that inspires you to be a better blogger!

Create a collage of your vision board pins using Pin-Collage.com

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