Results From The 31 Day Challenge to Optimize Your Blog With Social Media (Day 31)

Posted January 31, 2010

Hands protecting a sprout This is last day of the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. I’ll be publishing a PDF containing the entire series, so stay tuned.

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Challenges and results

Following are “before and after” experiences by a few folks who took the 31 day challenge. Please share your experience in the comment section.

- Abbie Mood

Challenge: I didn’t understand how to use social media to effectively promote my blog/freelance career.

Results: I have learned about new tools (twitter karma, etc.) that I will definitely use. I’m excited for the second half of the challenge.

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- Wine Beer Washington

Challenge: Time management and prioritizing my strategies. Also working with being so nocturnal in a diurnal world.

Results: Looking at social media with a different set of eyes. The opportunity to try new strategies.

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-  Marcia and Mike

Challenge: Understanding the relationship between social media and how it linked to my blog.

Results: I’ve redesigned several aspects of the blog site to make it more social media friendly.

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- Are Morch

Challenge: The biggest challenge has been to get my visitor to interact the way I had planned. So in away I have not been 100% sure if I targeted the right market for my niche. Plus one of my biggest challenges actually has been to ask for help. I guess in a away I thought I could do it all by myself.

Results: After starting to optimize my blog I have started to ask for help from friends online, and offline. Let them give me their rough feedback, And I learned the way I see my blog, is not the way they see my blog.

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- Holly Salsman

Challenge: I wanted to understand from another person’s perspective how they engage followers, start meaningful conversations, and build authentic relationships that are based on their goals for using social media.

Results: I took some of your advice for “How to Engage Your Blog’s Community” (Day 13) and turned it around in my use of social media. I read a guest post on a blog I read regularly, and immediately started following the writer because she seemed like a person from whom I could learn. Over a few days the conversation turned into a fairly specific discussion about how we could help each other out, and we’re planning to chat on the phone next week.

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- David Petry

Challenge: I had no blog. The program jumpstarted me into creating one.

Results: My blog is up. I have good initial results. And now I can start creating a blog with wisdom rather than whimsy.

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- Paul Worswick

Challenge: My biggest challenge was wondering how I was going to grasp hold of the new technology and the mass of information that came with it. The size of the task looked impossible!!

Results: A clear focus on more realistic goals with a detailed plan and strategy to implement. I am now working more effectively and effeciently.

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- Gina and Barbara

Challenge: The biggest challenge was trying to rein in all the ideas my team had and figure out our SMART goals.

Results: I know that there is an audience, of course, but I need to be more in tune with their day-to-day interests.

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I’ll be publishing the entire series in the form of an ebook. Be the first to receive a free copy by sharing your experience in the comments below.

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  • John -

    My takeaways are numerous. I think the most significant one has been on learning tips and techniques for developing "community" through social media.

    I truly enjoy (and learn from) the community of comments from various blogs like yours. That community makes me proud to be a part of the blogging/social media world.

    Thanks for all the help, learning and inspiration!
  • Hi John,
    I'm still catching up on all the dates, I have to say its a bit overwhelming with all I've got going on. So please send me the .pdf so I can finish catching up please! :)
  • Hi John,

    Thanks for putting together this wonderful series - it really is a great resource of practical advice and information that people can put into action right away. I've been referring back to some of these entries as things I need to work on (for example, working on my LinkedIn page and such).

    So thanks for sharing your insights, John, and I'd love to get a copy of your PDF for easy reference.
  • My challenge: to optimize social media profiles/platforms and how to make them more presentable, user-friendly.

    Results: Apart from the tips & tricks, I learned to view things with an open mind, take courage in trying out new strategies and do it at this very minute! Don't wait.

    Thank you John, I've kept all the emails and will review my performance quarterly for improvements.

    @wchingya
    Social/Blogging Tracker
  • What an amazing series. Some parts of it were things I thought I knew pretty well and yet I still learning a ton of stuff. Thanks, John, and please send me the ebook once you have it all together!
  • John, many thanks for your information. I haven't been able to do everything, but have been keeping all of the emails, lessons, suggestions to implement in the coming weeks. Our library blog/website is very basic and is in need of some overhaul, so will use what works for us. The state of Kansas is doing a 23 things challenge that is much like your 31 days challenge, so your info has been quite beneficial for me there.
    Again, I thank you for the info.
  • This has been a great way to work through some issues and help with my own website and blog posting. I've learned a great deal. Now i need to digest it, and plan on how to implement many of these great ideas.

    I didn't know you were going to make it into a comprehensive e-book, so I've diligently been capturing each installment into my Evernote.
  • Awesome series, John! I learned much over the month and I'll be back to pick up what I didn't implement on the first go through. Thanks for sharing your expertise so freely with us.
  • What is great is that the challenge focuses on steps that are actionable and achievable. Bravo to John for this very helpful resource!
  • betsymullen
    Thank you for sharing your insight and expertise. You are helping many worthy causes in meaningful ways.
  • Thanks for sharing these great tips all month. The series brought my focus back to sharing more. Looking forward to the collected resource too :)
  • I discovered this great program about halfway through and have started some of the steps. Now I just need to follow through with it on a daily basis and realize the full benefits.
    Thanks!
    William Francke
  • First of all John thank you for everything you've shared over the past 31 days; I've found it very enlightening. Some of it has been very new and some of it I was already using; I've now started to use it slightly different. I'll be returning to revisit some of the days to make sure I get full value.

    Above all I've learnt a great deal and plan implement my new learning with my blog.

    Regards

    Paul
  • Hi John.

    Congrats with the presentation of 31 Day Challenge to Optimize Your Blog With Social Media.

    For me this is just the beginning.

    It has been a great experience follow your training. And I am confident that there is many that still has not participated that can take advantage of this great training.

    I have also learned that even if blogging is hard work, it is a lot of fun too.

    With your advices and training I not only got better connection with my own network, but more important I have expanded my network and got new awesome connections here.

    Your friend,

    Are Morch
  • Congrats on finishing your 31 days.. I started following in the middle. I had our Marketing manager, chemist, customer service reps follow it so they will get where I want to take our company in letting folks get to know our company better. Not just the what we do but the why and why that matters to us and should for others. We have a lot of work to do and your step by step was helpful..very helpful
  • John, first of all....I am impressed by your depth of knowledge and ability to string together 31 coherent and actionable entries that really worked together. I found your tips to be extraordinarily helpful and have added your blog to my recommendations on my own blog, www.artofsmallbusiness.org (which has benefited mightily from reading you). Kudos!
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