Join me in the 31 Days of Craft Show Preparation by Blogger Molly of http://mollyeleen.wordpress.com. Molly was inspired to do the 31 days challenge when her friends took on the challenge that The Nester hosts each year. (based on the 31 Days to build a better blog by ProBlogger)
Today Molly talks about how this 31 day series and the accountability of her friends really helped her prepare for the craft show. It gave her the nudge she needed to do the work necessary to prevent procrastination.
One of the ways I like to prevent procrastination is to do blog challenges. Having a set topic to write about or blogging with friends always makes it a little easier. My first blog challenge was with Michelle and Michelle – the Ultimate Blog Challenge. If you’ve been following me for any time now you know I love this challenge.
At the beginning of the year I did my third round of the 31 days of crochet business blogging challenge. I’ll be hosting another round in June. Hosting my own challenge really pushes me to stay on target and to do what needs to be done. I can always improve my traffic, my connections with other bloggers and the focus of my blogging purpose.
3 Crazy Good Ways a Blog Challenge Can Help You
1. Crazy Good Traffic
As a member of a blog challenge you are committing to visiting 2 – 3 blogs per day and leaving a useful comment. You can also share the post via social media. This helps your traffic and the traffic of the bloggers who participate.
2. Crazy Good Connections
As you are visiting the blogs of other participants you are checking out how you can help them. Networking with others is the key to growing your blog. I’m doing the Biztopia challenge (AFF) and one thing I’ve learned is the power of connection. The interview I did with Evelyn for the QR stone is via this challenge.
What got me started on connecting with others are Amethyst’s worksheets. She gives specific tasks to complete for the week and then at the end of the week we evaluate our week. One task was to connect with 3 people and I did. Now, I just need to continue doing this each week and I know my blog will grow. 
3. Crazy Good Focus
A challenge also helps you to focus your blog. Back during the 31 days challenge for this blog I shared the importance of identifying what your readers want. You can find this out by either asking them or by checking out your statistics. What are they reading? Write more posts on that subject.
Pushing yourself to write on various topics for a whole month will give you an idea of what you need to spend more time on and what you can let go of.
Have you taken a blog challenge before? How did it help your traffic?
p.s. The Ultimate Blog Challenge is starting in April – Sign up and see your blog soar.
How You Can Participate
Visit Molly’s Blog post which has all 31 posts in the series
Blog about it. You can do one post for the entire week or one post per day. I’ll be doing one post a day. (31)
Chat about it either on the Crochet Business fanpage or the CBB Google+ community .
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