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In This Economic Crisis, Recession Proof Your Blog

     BLOG TIPS- With the Dow fluctuating and the "bailout" packages waiting to have their positive impact, here's some advice on how to give a blog (and bloggers) a boost without raising costs (and maybe even reducing them):   

Fight the doomsday machine.  One of the biggest problems is conquering the negative mood and tolk. We're constantly hit with with negative messages from the media and our friends/biz associates daily about how we're all going to hit bottom. It's tough to argue with; People are losing their jobs, their homes, and their hope. It spells difficulty ahead; keeping a successful end (and blog) in mind while pursuing after your business and life goals gets difficult. No one can say with certainly that we know our year-end results, since we don't know what the market's going to do today. Even if we aren't directly effected, we fear that our readers/clients/etc  will be less likely to want to spend money right now, impacting your revenue.

Fortunately, there are thing you can do! Every challenge presents us with opportunities to learn, grow, and dig deeper to find solutions that will move us forward individually thru our blog, but also as a community!  Nelson Mandela once said, "...As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” So we MUST push onward with vision, a plan and a willingness to help others!

Go back to your original blog plan.  What were your goals at the start of the year, at the start of your blog?  Re-fresh and re-focus on what you intend to accomplish ! You may have to approach your vision in a new way, be ready and be adaptable.  There are many methods to use in laying out a new plan;

See Your Future to Succeed

     Bloggers looking to make money through their blog often talk about their plans and what they will do to make their blog great and successful.  Like any new business venture, your blog will take more time and effort than you can currently imagine.  But, in order to succeed you need to make a contract with yourself to keep with blogging.  As we talked about on earlier posts, click here for one, putting plans in writing are vital.  I suggest you go further and sign an actual agreement, or contract with yourself.  This should help you stick with it for an agreed upon length of time (one year for example) during the "slow" periods when you might otherwise consider ending your blog venture.

Another idea is to spend time imagining your future with a tremendously successful blog and blogs.  Devote 5-10 minutes periodically and SEE yourself running one of the best blogs in the world, picture what your life would be like and what you would be doing.  Would your writing then be different, would you start other ventures, what would the blog look like, who would you hire?  Go crazy, the important thing is to see the success that you will have!

Don't just blog, Blog To Great!