Here is What I Have Done Today

I talk a lot about the importance of getting out there and making a success of your website or business. In my post, you have to reply to everything, I talk about how I make it my priority to interact with as many people as I can on a daily basis, if it means I go to bed at 3am then so be it. No one else is going to write my posts or bring the readers in. I’m a one man show and this is how I do it every day.

I thought it would be a good motivator to show a detailed over view of what work I have done with this site in the last 24 hours, which has lead to 42 new comments on the site, 18 re-tweets and 12 new subscribers.

• Interaction

I have spoken to 108 different people on twitter (either @’s or DM’s) replied to 32 emails (from 8 people) as a result of my I’ll Help Anyone post. I have also sent and received 24 text/sms messages for UK business owners who have read the site and with whom I had meetings with a week before Christmas in London. I am so passionate about the fact you have to talk to as many people as possible. It’s important to do this properly and don’t keep searching new people at the detriment of your existing readers or customers.

• Posts

Published 2 new posts (including this one) to follow on from the three that were published yesterday. Both around 700-900 words. I’m committed to producing 14 posts a week so today was a standard day for me. I think it’s important to produce a high amount of quality content consistently. Pete Cashmore from mashable is the perfect example of this, he posted 7 times a day for a year, now he owns one of the biggest social media sites in the world.

• Guest Post

I wrote a guest post about the importance of the cycle of writing and promoting, around 700 hundred words. Hopefully I’ll get the green light for this and I’ll let everyone know when it has been published. I decided to submit to a high traffic website in my market place to gain a bit more exposure. The person I chose to send it to I am in regular contact with so hopefully he won’t mind me cold sending. Just a quick point on guest posting, next year I plan on submitting a few posts a month to different sites, not just high ranking established sites, but readers of this site who are doing great work themselves.

• Promotion

By promotion I really mean sociable as everything I have mentioned so far is all linked to promotion, but I have commented or tweeted 23 different websites. Not all high rollers like copyblogger, but readers of this site, sites I am interested in outside this market place. The comments I have left are (in my opinion) valuable and add to the original post. When you get out there and promote your site, make sure you do it properly. No ‘come check me out’, contribute and help others, if people like what you say, you get the result you want. On top of these comments, I have also posted 17 new threads on various different forums I contribute too.

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So what does everyone think, have you done enough today?

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