How to plan a money making blog.
By: Business Ideas
Tags: Blogging Tips, Blog, Blogging, Blogging For Business, Blogger

Want to start a money making blog? I believe that a lack of proper planning is what causes most blogs to fail. So in this post, I’ll tell you exactly how to plan your blog before you launch it.

At this point, you should know what your topic is, who your target audience is, and who your competitors are. I’m not saying you have to create a detailed blog plan. But before you start your blog, you should know who your blog is for and what you’re trying to achieve.

When creating a plan for your blog, apart from your niche, you should consider these aspects:

Goals

Branding

Content

Website

Promotion

Monetization

Budget

1. GOALS

First things first, before you start your blog, you have to set goals for your blog. Ideally, you should set specific goals you can measure.

You can set specific dates by which you want to achieve your goals, but I understand that since you might be planning your first ever blog, you don’t know when you can expect to reach your goals.

You need to create a long-term vision for your blog. Where do you see your blog in a year? Five years? Think about what the purpose of your blog is. This might take you a few sessions to complete.

Brainstorm ideas, put them down on a paper, let it sit, and come back after a while to review those goals.

Perhaps your ultimate goal is to become the leader in your industry. Maybe you want to build a community around your blog.

Is that it?

No!

Even though you need a long-term vision, these goals are a bit vague.

How are you going to achieve those goals? You need to set smaller goals that will help you achieve those big goals. Think of them as milestones on your journey to achieving your ultimate goals.

Set SMART Goals

Ideally, you should be setting SMART goals.

What are SMART goals?

SMART is an acronym for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. Your goals have to be specific. If you want to just “grow your blog”, how will you know you’ve achieved it? You need specific numbers. You need your goal to be measurable.

Your goals need to be achievable. Let’s be real, you most likely won’t hit 50,000 pageviews in the first month.

If you want to stick to your goal, it has to be realistic. Don’t set a goal of writing at least 1,000 words daily if you’ve barely written that many in the past month. You’re not trying to run a marathon.

To set a goal the right way, you need a specific date by which you’re going to achieve that goal.

Set performance and creation goals

Creation goals are goals such as writing every day.

Performance goals are goals such as achieving certain numbers by a certain time.

In terms of creation goals, you can set a goal to write every day. I’m not saying publishing a new blog post daily. Just writing every day.

Set short-term goals

Since right now you are setting goals before starting your blog, I suggest you set goals for your first month.

You can set the number of blog posts you’d like to publish in the first month, monthly pageviews, blog post shares, email subscribers, social media follows/subscribers, etc.

By setting short-term goals on your journey to achieving your long-term vision, you’re creating small milestones that set you up for success in the long run. A great blogger goal……….

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