Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were as many creative conversations taking place at this global scale with a global context and global goals — where are all the Universal Development blogs? I believe we’re looking at them — the Honey of our Hive, the cells that make up the Comb…
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Category Archives: Mission
The One Thing Your Blog Has that All the Others Don’t
You absolutely must find an angle or a sub-niche or a focus topic to stand out from the crowd of personal development bloggers — otherwise you’re just “another personal development blogger.” What can you offer the personal development niche that other bloggers — writing about the same general topics — can’t find on their own blogs?
Blog Mission Makeover – a Case Study
Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal has written a valuable peek into examples of how — exactly — he’s applying the Blog Marketing Checklist — from the Build Your Blog Subscriber List tutorial — to make-over his blog’s mission with focused intention.
More Reasons Why It’s Not All About Google Traffic
Do you work for Google? Who is your boss? I’m self-employed — I don’t have a boss, I don’t have one boss, I actually have thousands of bosses. I answer to my readers. Having the entire proverbial rug on which my financial survival depends ripped out from under my feet without warning is not my…
Does Your Blog Qualify as “Spiritual”?
You don’t have to write about spirituality (as in the publishing niche of spiritual or religious topics) to qualify as someone who blogs with spiritual intention — motivated by a calling, by a higher sense of purpose, with a mind toward changing the world for the good of all.
The Financial Guilt of Spiritual Entrepreneurship
Do you consciously, sub-consciously, or even un-consciously demonize money? Guilt about making money from a calling or higher sense of purpose seems to be almost epidemic among spiritual entrepreneurs. If you can accept money for doing something you identify as “meaning-less†why would you struggle to manifest wealth for doing something a million times more meaning-ful?
Following Your Golden Thread
Reinforcing your mission — your core message — over and over again can feel a little redundant from the author’s perspective — like a creative straight-jacket.
How do you limit and narrow and focus your blogging while simultaneously stockpiling an ever-growing quantity of original, quality articles? Don’t these goals contradict one another?
Does All That Blog Bling Serve Your Call to Action?
Identify your blog’s target audience, your mission statement, and your call to action and every other decision you make about your blog marketing strategy gets easier. When you know exactly who you want to reach, what you want to teach them, and what you ultimately want them to do, then every other choice — for…
