Comments on: The Power of Sharing Your Goals http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/ Change Your Life Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:32:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-1648 Peter Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:42:19 +0000 http://www.thechangeblog.com/2007/08/14/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/#comment-1648 Thanks Derrick. I guess there are no real secrets to my strategy for increasing subscriptions - it really just comes down to continuing to write what are hopefully interesting articles and making it easy for people to subscribe. Thanks Derrick. I guess there are no real secrets to my strategy for increasing subscriptions – it really just comes down to continuing to write what are hopefully interesting articles and making it easy for people to subscribe.

]]> By: Derrick http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Derrick Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:23:18 +0000 http://www.thechangeblog.com/2007/08/14/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/#comment-1647 Nice reply, and good thoughts. I guess personally I just could never figure out any concrete ways of improving subscriptions and all. So it's been hard for me to use that as a goal. But good points, and I'll try to apply your thoughts to my blog as well. =). Derrick Nice reply, and good thoughts.

I guess personally I just could never figure out any concrete ways of improving subscriptions and all. So it’s been hard for me to use that as a goal. But good points, and I’ll try to apply your thoughts to my blog as well. =).

Derrick

]]> By: Peter http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-1646 Peter Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:16:00 +0000 http://www.thechangeblog.com/2007/08/14/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/#comment-1646 Thanks for the comments guys. Re RSS: well really for the first 2 months of this blog I feel I was writing for an audience of 1 person. The last 2 months things have started to take off... I think my writing has improved significantly and services such as Stumbleupon have brought decent amounts of traffic to this site. I see RSS subscribers as a good area to target as these are people who have obviously enjoyed my writing enough to subscribe. Now, I must admit I find them quite fickle and my numbers do tend to jump around a lot, but over the medium term I am confident I can increase them. I hope to do this by continuing to write interesting articles and generating good amounts of traffic. I have also within the last week made the Feedburner chicklet more prominent and added a line after each article encouraging people to subscribe. I have seen how RSS numbers have increased by literally thousands within the space of a few weeks on sites such as PicktheBrain and ZenHabits so I see no reason why my numbers can't increase by a couple of hundred within the space of 6 weeks. This is really the first time I have targeted RSS subscribers so I guess it will be a case of seeing what happens! I think you will find though Jason your subscribers will have increased by at least 1 yesterday and Derrick I have subscribed to your blog today :) . Re comments: within just the past few weeks I have found more and more people have been leaving comments. To be honest, I think the best tip is to take the time to visit other peoples' sites and leave a thoughtful comment. I am of course also using the Top Commentators and Recent Comments plugins that can encourage comments by giving a link back to the commentator's site. I guess my point is that whilst I can't guarantee success in these 2 areas (RSS & Comments) there are many actions I can take to help them eventuate. Is it even worth then picking a number (eg 300 subscribers)? Well I have always liked the quote: <blockquote>What gets measured gets improved. </blockquote> Thanks for the comments guys.

Re RSS: well really for the first 2 months of this blog I feel I was writing for an audience of 1 person. The last 2 months things have started to take off… I think my writing has improved significantly and services such as Stumbleupon have brought decent amounts of traffic to this site.

I see RSS subscribers as a good area to target as these are people who have obviously enjoyed my writing enough to subscribe. Now, I must admit I find them quite fickle and my numbers do tend to jump around a lot, but over the medium term I am confident I can increase them. I hope to do this by continuing to write interesting articles and generating good amounts of traffic.

I have also within the last week made the Feedburner chicklet more prominent and added a line after each article encouraging people to subscribe. I have seen how RSS numbers have increased by literally thousands within the space of a few weeks on sites such as PicktheBrain and ZenHabits so I see no reason why my numbers can’t increase by a couple of hundred within the space of 6 weeks.

This is really the first time I have targeted RSS subscribers so I guess it will be a case of seeing what happens! I think you will find though Jason your subscribers will have increased by at least 1 yesterday and Derrick I have subscribed to your blog today :) .

Re comments: within just the past few weeks I have found more and more people have been leaving comments. To be honest, I think the best tip is to take the time to visit other peoples’ sites and leave a thoughtful comment.

I am of course also using the Top Commentators and Recent Comments plugins that can encourage comments by giving a link back to the commentator’s site.

I guess my point is that whilst I can’t guarantee success in these 2 areas (RSS & Comments) there are many actions I can take to help them eventuate. Is it even worth then picking a number (eg 300 subscribers)? Well I have always liked the quote:

What gets measured gets improved.

]]> By: Derrick http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-1644 Derrick Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:23:51 +0000 http://www.thechangeblog.com/2007/08/14/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/#comment-1644 With regards to your second and third go related to your blog, just my thoughts. I think a goal should be something within your control? Like the above commenter mentioned, do you have a plan on how to increase subscription? If so, I would love to know it. If not, it might not really be a good goal to have, because it can be discouraging and all. As for the second one, yes, you probably can write posts which encourage more discussion, but it's hard to really guarantee more comments. Maybe it'd be better to have more concrete goals that are within your control? Not trying to knock you or anything. I think it's a good post about why you should share your goals. And I really like your blog. Just wanted to share my thoughts. With regards to your second and third go related to your blog, just my thoughts. I think a goal should be something within your control? Like the above commenter mentioned, do you have a plan on how to increase subscription? If so, I would love to know it. If not, it might not really be a good goal to have, because it can be discouraging and all. As for the second one, yes, you probably can write posts which encourage more discussion, but it’s hard to really guarantee more comments. Maybe it’d be better to have more concrete goals that are within your control?

Not trying to knock you or anything. I think it’s a good post about why you should share your goals. And I really like your blog. Just wanted to share my thoughts.

]]> By: Jason http://www.thechangeblog.com/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-1645 Jason Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:10:03 +0000 http://www.thechangeblog.com/2007/08/14/the-power-of-sharing-your-goals/#comment-1645 Do you have any plans yet on how you're going to expand your subscriptions? I'm curious because I don't seem to get any subscribers on my blog, though I have the links showing quite prominently. Do you have any plans yet on how you’re going to expand your subscriptions? I’m curious because I don’t seem to get any subscribers on my blog, though I have the links showing quite prominently.

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