Set Goals for Your Blog

With such a clear picture of your blog’s theme/topic and the reason for its existence, it’s time to start thinking big and coming up with some goals for the months ahead. Don’t worry if this looks like more planning than you bargained for. This is a practical book, and we’ll take off in the next chapter. But as with many situations in life, it’s important to develop a clear flight plan first.

Write down goals for your blog. What do you want to get out of the blog you are starting? What do you expect from it in one month, three months, a year, three years?

Clarify your initial expectations now so that you can revisit and compare them to the results you actually achieve from your blog later on. If you’re on track, well ...

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