Why I Post Every Day on SlopeFillers and Why That May Be Changing…
Gregg Blanchard /
Tuesday’s post marked the 750th such publication on SlopeFillers.
I’ve said this before, but I never thought I’d see this day. Close to burnout in 2011, Corey Ryan and Ryan Solutions’ support was perfectly timed. Now, with over 315,000 words under my blogging belt, I feel I can attribute much of the success to one, simple principle.
Posting every single day.
There were many other factors at play, but writing every day helped me develop a habit of critical thinking and creativity while simultaneously creating daily visiting habits in readers.
Along those three years of posting (officially, the 3-year mark is on Monday), there were at least a half dozen times where, frustrated, I came home and told my wife, “that’s it, I’m done posting every day…I’ve gotta figure something else out, I just can’t keep this up…”
If that wasn’t enough, for a while a favorite topic on writing blogs was exactly why you shouldn’t post every day.
Yet, here we are.
Why? Because, in many ways, it was about me. I wanted to learn. I wanted to become a better marketer and writer. And heaven knows I needed the practice.
Some of my favorite posts came because, when my back was against the wall, I was forced to create a topic when no topic was there. That’s become one of the most valuable skills I have: to create ideas at the exact point I’m out of ideas.
But that was then.
So why am I rambling on like this? Well, a few things are going to change going forward. No top-to-bottom overhaul, mind you, but some tweaks that I really feel will help increase the value you get from the site going forward.
And at the core is the possibility I won’t be writing every day anymore, but, like the climax of a movie on TV, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out the full details.
See you then.