3 Ways to Stay Positive as You Grow Your Blog
SHOW NOTES: Episode 130
How is your mindset when it comes to your blog?
Amy here, and I’m doing a solo on the importance of maintaining a positive mindset as you grow your blog.
Blogging can be a rewarding yet challenging journey.
On today’s episode, I am sharing practical tips and resources to help you stay motivated, focused, and connected to your purpose.
First of all, I want to highlight the difference between your “purpose” and your “why”.
Knowing your purpose and following your purpose can be much more impactful than your why because your purpose is the impact and ultimate goal of your blog. It can help drive your why but your why shouldn’t be your end goal in pursuing your blog.
Creating an engaging community is crucial. We always say to keep your blog as your home base and where you should start but beyond that you can build a community through your blog and then expand into social media, email marketing, podcasting, memberships, etc.
I know there are challenges in the blogging world, such as algorithm updates and traffic shifts. I want you to surround yourself with positive, forward-thinking, success-driven individuals who have similar goals in mind as you to stay positive on your journey. Surrounding yourself with negativity will only keep you in a bad mindset and that is not where growth happens.
Another way to stay positive as you grow your blog is to focus on what is working and lean into those areas. Track progress and make data-driven decisions while never making a big decision on a bad day.
I hope this episode encourages you to stay resilient, make data-driven decisions, and continuously adapt to achieve success!
Blogging is such a gift but we can have bad days with any job, so I hope that this episode helps you to keep a positive mindset!
IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVERED:
- Importance of staying positive as a blogger
- Tips for maintaining a positive mindset while growing a blog
- Differentiating between purpose and why in blogging
- Building a supportive and engaging community
- Navigating challenges in the blogging world
- Focusing on what is working and making data-driven decisions
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Track SEO to Grow Course
- Keywords with Aleka – Code UBP10 saves you 10%!
- BOOK: Content Inc by Joe Pulizzi
- Pinterest Episodes to check out: episode 9, episode 60, episode 92, episode 108, and episode 115!
- Thank you to our sponsor Memberful for sponsoring this episode! Check out Memberful HERE!!
- Check out last week’s episode here!
MORE ABOUT THE ULTIMATE BLOG PODCAST:
Welcome to The Ultimate Blog Podcast! This podcast is for you if you’ve ever wanted to learn blogging basics so that you can start your own blog or if you have been a blogger for years but are struggling to grow or need inspiration and community.
Every Tuesday we will be sharing a new episode where we will cover topics from the basics of starting a blog, monetizing and growing your site, to finding the inspiration you need to keep going. You will also find guest interviews with experts on different blogging topics as well as interviews with bloggers who’ve been in your shoes.
Amy Reinecke and Jennifer Draper are bloggers themselves who want to encourage you to believe in your potential, step outside the norm and step into a life where you create your own schedule, your own success and your own story.
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