It is with great sorrow that I am writing to you one last time ................ On this website at least! If you follow me on my social media you saw that I posted a while back talking about switching over to a new host for my website. So excited to be using squarespace and utilizing all of its awesome features to bring you neat, clean, and dope content. Along with a new site, I'm bringing you a new brand. I will be doing a logo reveal in the next week or whatever, so again, (shameless plug) if you aren't already, lets get connected on all the social medias and be buddies. I am super excited about this new vision and I hope that you will be to! g o a l sI think that if you reach for big dreams, you are doing life right. It doesn't mean that I'm naive or unrealistic. I'm simply making a goal, letting it be known, and doing everything I possibly can to achieve it. My reason for writing my goals for this next phase of my blog is simply for accountability and to get you excited. I hope that if you are a reader of my blog you would rally around me and show support, I would greatly appreciate it! My encouragement is for you to also dream big. Dream HUGE. and do it. Research, learn, stretch. If this post inspires you to do anything, I hope you become inspired to make your dreams a reality. Okay, this will be a post for another time... back to goal-setting! 1. ChangeThis is little old me. I'm ever-changing as I grow and learn, there's more things that I want to try my hand at. My vision with rebranding my blog is to express myself in a different way. Branding myself with, "The Wanderers Blog" left me feeling cornered. I felt like I had to either try to take trips, or to relate everything back to traveling. Why talk about makeup if my blog is travel themed? cornered. There is so much more to me, and the type of platform that I want to become. So, my desire is that with the freedom of this branding it will allow me to give myself permission to be myself. 2. ReachI'm going to talk some numbers now. This is scary. It's scary because I'm being completely honest with how my blog is doing right now. I'm being honest with you and with myself. I feel super awkward talking about numbers, but you know what, sometimes you just have to speak it to achieve it. So, bare with me, this might not be the most exciting part of the blog today. I'm going to be setting goals for: 1. Views per month to my website 2. Newsletter followers 3. Social media followers This will be over the time span of 4 months So, starting with number 1, I currently have on average about 120 people that are viewing my blog per month. My Goal: 200 views/month -- Right now I have about 14 people that have signed up to recieve my newsletters. My Goal: 25 sign ups (active followers) for my newsletter **Side note -- I'm going to be changing how I write those, and their purpose. If you are right now on the newsletter list, bare with me for now! -- Lastly, social media. I am going to try to make these goals even though I have this fear of sounding vain. I think that social media is a powerful tool, and if I want to grow I should utilize it. This particular goal makes me uncomfortable. Again, because I do not want it to sound like I just want attention. But my intention is to build attention around the things that I am writing about. I think that God has been really guiding me through this whole blogging journey, and desperately want to be a voice of positivity in a world of a lot of negativity. Anyways, long story short, here are my goals. -- Facebook -- Currently I have about 126 likes on my Facebook page My Goal: 200 page likes Instagram -- I currently have 973 (organic) followers, and an average of roughly 140 likes on my content. (the likes only matter for engagement purposes. likes aren't everything, but it's nice to know people are engaged. It also helps to see what content I publish that attracts more viewers so I can game plan from there). My Goal: 1,200 Alright, the most uncomfortable part of this blog is done. whew! 3. EngageIf I had a bunch of followers on my social media and blog, but no engagement I have failed. I'm not writing for likes. I'm not writing for "fame" of any kind. I believe in the calling and vision God has put on my heart, and I'm shooting for great heights because I serve a big God with bigger dreams and bigger plans. **snaps fingers** I talk about my blog posts with friends, and have come to find that some people have really liked some of my posts! YAY! That is such a win for me. You have no idea how much I hold close to those words of encouragement. Now, it's great that people have liked my post. But I want you to do something about it. I see friends (including myself) post about articles that have helped them, or that they've found intriguing on their social media. I want to be the article you share! I have been told from a few people about how certain blog posts have encouraged them or have helped them through something. Bingo. That's my purpose for writing. and If you feel like something stands out to you, talk about it. share it. It doesn't have to be a crazy huge shout out, but I'd love to move from word of mouth talking about it, to posting about it. The purpose for my goals for "engagement" is to create buzz and to have someone talk back with me. It's sometimes lonely having a one sided conversation. My action plans for more engagement is to encourage you to join me in this. But also, I'll be doing Facebook lives every so often, and potentially doing some giveaways and challenges. I'm super scared and excited about this aspect, but I think there will be good fruit from it. So, as for goal for this; I'd love to get an average of at least 2 comments per blog post. I'd love for at least 5 people to act on sharing one of my posts that have stood out to them. and I'd love for people to join in on some of my posts that involve participation from you guys! "Shoot for the sky!" - WoodySo this is it.
My last post on this blog until I launch my new site and brand. Stay updated through the social media (mainly the Facebook page) and keep up with all the changes happening. I'm super excited to create more of a defined purpose for my posts, rather than just a "life-update" vibe. I hope that you've enjoyed what you've read thus far, and that you continue to join me in this dream. As I said before, this post was hard because I like to keep my dreams to myself and limit myself on what I can do. I hope you hear my heart, and not some kind of "like hungry" message. I truly believe if you speak out your goals and aspirations, you have a better chance of achieving them. ** Also, I will not be starting completely new. I will have some of my posts on this site formatted on my new site! Let me know about your dreams! What are you afraid to do? what are you going to do about it? -A
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