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Great outline:) I think I will take some of your thoughts and see how these and other 09 strategies I have made will make BillSavings.com a better and MORE, MUCH MORE user friendly site!
#5...yes, please!!!
Do that and I'll stop emailing you on where to find past articles of interest.
Nice article.
That`s super great! I have some lines at my blog as well about what to do better in 09. The number one thing I want to do is to increase my list and getting more exposure. I have it all described AndresMarketingEvolution.com. I will come back here. Lots of great information :)
Great site!
Thanks,
André T
Thanks, Victoria! I completely agree that user friendliness is KEY. (It would have been on our list of top 10 resolutions.) The only caveat is that you have to be careful that focus on user friendliness doesn't
get confused with too much focus on design.
Great resolutions -- anyone with a blog can use them, including me!
Andre T, thanks for the comment. We definitely want to increase our list size and get more exposure (after all, the HubSpot blog is run by the marketing team!). However, I didn't include those goals here b/c I think improvements to content, discussion and the blog itself are the only ways to achieve those goals.
Thanks for the great post.
#3 is what I'll be working hardest on this year for my blog. Practice, Practice, Practice.
This is great. I am going to look at this in detail. I would like to hear about building lead generation into your blog and of course I want to hear the latest and most up to date information on how google and any other important site, like Alexa, is changing. It is my goal to stay on the forefront on the web and I am looking to HubSpot to keep me there.
As a new blogger it is critical to us to figure out how to maximize the return for us in terms of SEO and subscribers for the time we spend working on it. Good to keep the focus here and see examples!
Nikki and Sam, glad you agree with the SEO focus. It's what you have to be focused on if you're blogging for business. One of the ways I'm trying to focus is by separating things that are current and popular, and things that are core to our product and our business. Blogging draws you to current stuff, which is good, but there needs to be balance.
Rick - great post. Thanks especially for the link to a past post - 7 Website Redesign Tip. That was a terrific post and I missed it first time around. This is a great example of #5.
Good ideas, Mike. I've written so many great articles on my blog that I'm now posting on Twitter to promote specific ones.
Great Blog Ideas- thanks for passing on!
I think those are great goals .. I'll be using some of them for my blog, too.
Thanks for the great content in '08. Looking forward to even better posts?! Fantastic.
Non-profits are a perfect candidate for inbound marketing and it would be great to explore any difference in methods to raise awareness and increasing donations/members versus sales.
Your TweetIt app works wonderfully. I used it to tweet this blog post. Your comment on Jeremiah Owyang's "How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets" post brought me here. Smart content, smart comment, smart move... and smart post.
Thank you for sharing your experience in blogging. I plan to put it to use this year, the year I start blogging. Cheers.
Great post, made me think that all my fretting about #3 is very important. Its what I'm really trying to focus on this year. Happy New Year and happy blogging!
@Ronnie, thanks for the nice comment. Glad you like TweetIt -- and it's nice to hear people explain how the found us!
@Nancy, #3 is a tough one; it's really easy to forget about, but REALLY important.
I am trying out TweetIt and like it, but I would like to offer a suggestion. Can you make he graphic a little smaller?
Thanks for great tips and tools.
Linda
Ronnie: Glad you like the TweetIt tool. Like a lot of things from HubSpot, it was built because we wanted it for ourselves.
Linda: In a future version, we'll provide a variety of different TweetIt button graphics.
Great list of new year resolutions, I think that most of them are exactly what I am aiming to this year too, beside finding my own blogging voice, well, hope your resolutions come true! wish me luck.