Build a Better Blog in 31 Days
Darren Rowse at Problogger has started the initiative to build a better blog in 31 days for bloggers around the world to take part. Like he mentioned in his post, this is the third times he is having this event which is conducted regularly every two years.
Two years ago I read through his posts on the 31 days challenge. Although I thought the posts and learnings were good, I did not really do what I learnt as I did not have a good enough blog (or at least that was what I thought).
This time the challenge wills start from 6 April (delayed for one week from the original start date of 1 April). I am really looking forward to the event mostly because I think there are many things I can do to improve this blog, Internet Business Toolbox. Like Darren said, improving blog has always been the one-thing that we want to do but always get pushed behind when we have other things to do.
There are two components to the posts during the challenge: a teaching component (theory part) and a practical component (task/homework part). Besides learning the theory, I will have homeworks to do. It is interesting that I am looking forward to doing homework. This is a different kind of mindset compared to the time when I was still in the school.
Darren broadcasted about this challenge over various methods: through his post in the blog, LinkedIn, readers of his previous newsletter, refer a friend and Twitter. As of today, there are close to 8000 signups. Out of those, 70% of the signups came from the post in his blog followed by Twitter with 20% and previous newsletter readers at third place with 9%. The referral and LinkedIn are quite negligible.
Based on the data, we can see that his regular blog post readers are better suited audience for the challenge as most of them would be bloggers themselves. Another interesting observation showed that Twitter is an effective social media by itself. We can argue that Darren’s followers in Twitter must have been bloggers, but the fact that it is contributing 20% signups is quite significant.
If you are interested in taking part, there is still time. Just go ahead to Darren’s post: 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.
