I have had successes and failures with this blog France Tales. I enjoy writing. I enjoy connecting with the various people I have met and communicated with. I have enjoyed sharing advice on moving to and living in France. When I am motivated to write on France Tales I think I can write in a funny engaging way. For all these reasons I am going to try to revive my motivation to write on France Tales.
Problogger has a challenge called 31 Days to Build Better Blog. There is no big scheme to it. Each day you will do a task which may take an hour or 2. By the end of the challenge, you will have a better blog but also have motivation and direction again.
http://www.problogger.net/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-join-9100-other-bloggers-today/
Another component to it is to find others to do it with. Of course he wants more people to join but it is free and you can stop whenever you want if it doesn’t meet your needs. When I did weight watchers years ago I did it with my partner and we lost together because we supported each other and looked out for each other. It is not necessary in this contest, but I would love to do this with someone else. Anyone game?
You start with something called a SWOT analysis. If you have a blog for just personal reasons it might be too business like but I think it is going to be good for me. S is for strengths, W is for Weaknesses, and these are both more internal, what are your strengths and weaknesses. O is for opportunities and T is for threats, and they are more external to you. I guess SWOT is an old marketing and business term but is a novel idea to apply to blogs. It is the first step in the challenge before you even start.
SWOT Analysis on Problogger
SWOT wiki, a great tool for wiki templates
Maybe we can keep in touch on Twitter too.
Do you lack creativity, inspiration, and motivation for your blog? Join me, Please.
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Just like to thank you for dropping by my blog and leaving your comments. It can be a bit disheartening at times this blogging game but I think in the long term it all helps build business and contacts.
You may want to consider following my blog so that anyone visiting can find us both more easily. Anyway nice to hear from you and just keep blogging.
Brian
Blogging takes a while, I had a few regular readers but then I dropped the ball, but I am getting back into it. Business and contacts can really be developed this way.
Thank you for your two comments today. I may try the ProBlogger system you mentioned this summer. At first I thought maybe you were just plugging something, but I can see you’re not.
A lot of bloggers seem to be flailing right now — I know I blog a bit less, but definitely am finding less time to “make the rounds” and visit other blogs. I’ve made some excellent contacts and even out and out friends through blogging, but we are now in touch through FB, Twitter and email so even checking their blogs sometimes seems redundant.
However, I continue to think that bloggers are a special breed that I want to be part of. Facebook is pretty much for everybody these days. Twitter is a different world, but complementary to blogging, I think.
Anyway, I’ll also respond to the comments you left on La France Profonde. Bon dimanche!
I think I may have left a link on your blog to the workbook version of 31 Days to Build Better Blog, which might have led you to think I was promoting something. I am, but not as an affiliate. I find the challenge great and it is making me think and rethink my blog/site. Of course you don’t have to do it in 31 days, I started strong but now take a few days to do each of the tasks. Let me know if you want to do it, we can connect a little.
I found the SWOT analysis to be useful and it helps me focus my thoughts. I think that is why my blogging habits waned, because I lost focus. Anyway, hope to see you again here. Are you participating in the #31DBBB?
This was a really valuable comment, I am tempted to mark it as spam, give me a reason not to.