Why am I blogging every day?
My personal New Year resolution is to blog every day on this blog.
That’s 365 days straight for 1 year. If I miss a day, it starts over. I’ll blog until I get it done.
Why?
CONSISTENCY.
I want to prove to myself that I can be consistent. Blogging for a year straight is a big step to mastering consistency.
Seth Godin blogs every day and has done so for many years. I can at least do one year!
And like I said, if I miss a day, I’ll simply start over. Most would quit and be angry at themselves. Buy quitting is a bigger failure to yourself than starting over. Are you a quitter or a do-getter?
What’s your personal goal for 2025? I’d love to know!
Is personal branding important?
Is personal branding important?
Is personal branding important?
For a solo online entrepreneur? In most cases — yes.
Your solo. That means it’s just you. YOU want to be seen as the expert so that people will buy your product or service. So, yes, your personal brand kind of matters in this situation.
If you’re building a company that will have employees, your personal brand will often not be required. If you’re an influencer or a solo businessperson who wants to be seen as a voice in your niche, then your personal brand is everything.
If you want to do business online solo, then you need to improve your personal brand.
That also means your reputation. Remember that anything you say or do online WILL be held against you. It will reflect you, your company, and anything you associate with. You can say “opinions are of my own” all you want but it will not change how your actions will be used against you if you have said something to offend another person or group of people.
Anyone who gets online should consider their reputations when doing things, but especially if they’re solo online entrepreneurs.
Learn Something New Every Day
Learn Something New Every Day
You should learn something new every day.
If you truly want to become an expert at something, you need to be able to commit to learning about it. You should do every day, too. You should always learn something new and be willing to be a lifelong learner because our niches are always changing. If you’re not up on the up and up with your niche, you’ll lose your expertise.
Experts can answer a question when given one.
If you can’t answer it, it’s fine. Be truthful and explain that you’re going to learn everything there is about the answer and visit back when you can answer it. That really shows your audience that like them, you’re not perfect, you’re a human, too.
Learn something new every day about your niche.
Setup Google Alerts for keywords related to it. Read blog posts of bloggers in the niche. Join forums and chat servers and ask questions about the niche. Read books and eBooks. Socialize with experts and influencers. Subscribe to feeds and news of industry experts and know what new developments come out. Answer your own questions about the niche by researching for them.
The more you learn, the more of an expert you will be.
How to Give Advice like an Expert
How to Give Advice like an Expert
Give advice daily.
Everyday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Every holiday. On your birthday. Even on your anniversary.
Give expert advice and knowledge to your audience every single day.
You can do this in the form of a blog post. I’m blogging every single day on this blog. I’m giving you advice and knowledge on how to be a solo online entrepreneur every single day.
Seth Godin gives you advice every day and has done so for years on his blog.
You can use social media. You can use Quora. You can use a forum or a discord server. You could even podcast, upload videos, or do multiple things to instill your advice and expertise in your audience on a daily basis.
The important thing is that you commit to giving advice every day.
And don’t tell me you can’t. It doesn’t matter if you go on a vacation. It doesn’t matter if you’ll be hiking where there isn’t any signal. It doesn’t matter if a hurricane takes out your power.
How does this not matter?
Because everything you’re posting to on a daily basis has a scheduling feature. Even if you’re not creating every single day, you can still schedule things to publish on a daily basis.
Giving advice and expertise every day isn’t about creating every day. It’s about getting your brand, business, or even your name out there every day so that more people notice you.
If you skip days, you skip potential opportunities. Some of those missed opportunities might be winning tickets that you had made you big and rich but you miss it because you don’t commit.
Shut up and commit.
How will you be giving advice and expertise on a daily basis?
Quit Failing with Your New Year’s Resolutions
Quit Failing with Your New Year’s Resolutions
What’s your New Year’s Resolution?
Many people fail to complete their New Year’s Resolutions. They create resolutions that are too difficult to complete in a time that makes it worth continuing.
They choose things like “I want to get skinny,” “I want to quit smoking,” or “I want to pay off the house,” and because the resolutions are so broad and significant, they often result in incomplete resolutions come the next New Year.
Is there a winning ticket for setting a New Year’s Resolution, then?
Yes. You can win at it by setting smaller resolutions that are more easily achievable and making them geared toward completing a much larger resolution. Your large resolution can be getting skinny, but your smaller achievable ones are losing 5 pounds in January or not eating candy for a week. Instead of quitting smoking, focus on smoking less than half of your normal amount each week. Instead of focusing on paying off the house, focus on getting a specific amount of debt from the house paid each month based on the extra money you can afford to put towards the bill.
Break your Big New Year’s Resolution into smaller resolutions to achieve something that requires little effort.
You can apply this same concept to business, marketing campaigns, or building your personal brand online.
Don’t focus on one BIG goal that will be difficult to achieve if you don’t work your backside off. Instead, focus on easily achievable goals that can lead to achieving your much larger goal.
If you can achieve your New Year’s Resolution, you can achieve your business goal.