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Today is the first day of GO month on DownshiftingPRO. One of the bigger goals that I have for myself this year is to grow my blog following. As a blogger, I need to have a solid readership that will keep coming back for more with interesting content. Whether that content involves family stories, organizing tips or product reviews and giveaways, it is great to start off the year with a clear benchmark. We need that sort of measurement so we can see how our business grows. Whether you are a small business or a blogger, you know the importance of keeping track of your audience. Today’s tiny task is to write down all the numbers for your social media platforms.
DownshiftingPRO STATS as of Jan. 1, 2015
🏡 Where to Stay: Top Accommodations
🥾 Explore: Tours & Experiences
🚙 Hit the Road: Car Rental Deals
🛫 Get Away: Find Flight Deals
🎒 Shop: Travel Essentials
Facebook Page Likes: 6,894
Twitter Follows: 14,147
Instagram: 2,113
Pinterest: 8,235
Google +: 525
YouTube: 223
LinkedIn: 1,090
This year’s goals are to increase my followers on Instagram and YouTube (although I find that a bit daunting). If you don’t already follow me, drop by the blog and all of the links are there.
Editorial Calendar
Another good way to increase your readership is to maintain an editorial calendar. This tool helps you keep track of the important dates in the calendar. Whether it is Valentines, St. Patrick’s or Mother’s Day simply knowing what is on the horizon is a great way to plan ahead. I have set a goal for myself to provide a few new things every month. One is an printable editorial calendar.
🥾 Explore: Tours & Experiences
🏡 Where to Stay: Top Accommodations
🚙 Hit the Road: Car Rental Deals
🛫 Get Away: Find Flight Deals
🎒 Shop: Travel Essentials
I’m wishing you much success on growing your followers! Sometimes, it can be hard work, but it definitely pays off. 🙂
You have excellent goals! Best of luck to you. My goal is to try & be very active myself. I really love the idea of Editorial calender & it would definitely help me. Thanks for sharing.
Good luck with your goals!! I have a calendar that helps keep me on track as well 🙂
I started a foodie editorial calendar last year. It listed all of the national food days. It was so hard to keep up with though along with my other recipes. I need to try again though because now that I have a lot of recipes on the site, there is something sure to go with most of the holidays.
Best of luck with all of your goals! I use an editorial calendar through CoSchedule and it helps a lot having everything visualized.
I like the idea of taking small steps and building on it to achieve greater goals. Best wishes for a successful 2015.
This sounds so cool! I really need to get my blogging organised and now you just motivated me to do so. I really want to increase my twitter following. Good luck and keep us updated with your progress.
I am seriously motivated to get organized this year. It feels good to be so dedicated to this.
This is wonderful advice. I do need to be organized so a editorial calender would be perfect for me as well. The pad of paper is totally not working out.
Good for you for making sound and realistic goals for the blog. For me, the calendar is something I need to stick with.
I checked to see if I was following on those two accounts. I am on Instagram. I wasn’t on YouTube, but I am now. Happy New Year to you!
I love this! I need to use one of these calendars. I’m trying to up my numbers this year as well. I’d really like to get my Instagram numbers up as well as Pinterest. Good luck with your goals!
Good luck with your goals those are very attainable goals!! I would be so lost personally with out my editorial calendar to plan out content and deadlines!
Good luck with your goals! I’ve no idea how to gain youtube followers though. Instagram is very easy 🙂
Great reminders! I have worked hard on getting crystal clear on several goals, but hadn’t taken the time to write down where I am now. What a huge thing! Thanks for that reminder, I’ll be doing that today!
It’s a good idea to keep track of all of that data. Calendars are a great idea so you don’t get overwhelmed.
Good luck to you! Goals are always achievable if we just keep our heads and don’t allow ourselves to get overwhelmed.
Excellent goals! My goals are to get healthy and learn to relax more in 2015.
I started keeping an editorial calendar last year because I just couldn’t keep track of everything. It was the best thing I ever did 🙂
Best of luck with your goals. I think it’s quite easy to gain new followers on Instagram, YouTube I’m not so sure though.
Hello! I’ve been reading your website for some time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Austin Tx!
Just wanted to say keep up the excellent job!
Best of luck with your goal! Mine is to build up my savings again & start a separate savings account for a Disney trip with my family.
I love that idea. I have a few ways of making that work. Try saving money each week so if this is week one of the new year save $1, next week is $2, week aftDr that is $3. As the weeks progress you will get to just under $1400 for week 52.
Good luck!
I’m doing this!