Just a few days ago marked the one month anniversary of this blog. One month hardly seems a timeframe to get excited about, but in the online world that is a big deal.

Most blogs these days are started with the best intentions and a lot of excitement only to have been abandoned by their creator in a matter of less than a month due to frustration or lack of traffic in the early stages.

I was fully aware of these statistics when I set out to make a mark with this blog, so I decided on two things right up front:

1) I would committ to do all the work needed to get my new blog through the fist month and beyond regardless of the stats it would bring

2) I enlisted the coaching services of a blogger that had turned his own experience into a successful online platform helping people and deriving a stable income from it.

So at first there is the creative but crucial phase where I had to decide what niche I would focus on with my blog. That was actually much harder than I thought, since I have many diverse interests and could think of so many topics that I can write about.

Then came the part when the actual work begins. Within a matter of hours, I had a domain, a hosting service and a ton of small tasks to install Wordpress with all the trimmings that make blogs tick. Countless plugins breathe life into the skeleton of every blog you read out there and finding the ones I need and would use turned into a major scientific project.

The next step was without a doubt the most important one of them all: setting my intentions and a timeline to reach them. Without those you will never know if you are on track and how well you are doing. I found it very important to set my benchmarks independently from other outside parameters.

That means I decided from within and just for myself what success meant at every step rather than comparing an infant blog like the one I just started to a super successful one and then end up being frustrated and not carry on.

I will never forget how exiting it was for me to write the announcement that I juts launched my vlog and to find out that somebody actually came to take a look. Even more fantastic is the feeling when I write about a topic that exudes passion for me and to learn in the comments I get on that post that my readers share that sentiment or even have advice flowing back to me that way.

Traffic and readers are the lifeline of every blog, because unless you are launching one to stay in touch with your parents while you backpack through India, it’s important to have a conversation with your readers. I found that a frequent posting schedule is best and that it’s also good to pack my posts with some good value that is useful right away to my readers.

Today, as I mark just over a month of blogging, I am still around, still writing content and loving it. I have so much more to share and offer that I know I will not run out of posting ideas for a long time to come. At this point I would like to thank all of you that have made a stop at my blog to read and I truly appreciate all your comments and feedback.

This blog is only getting started, so I’ll see you back here tomorrow and on the way to the top. I have reached and broken most of my personal targets but more are being set up to reach in the future.

Thank you very much for a super great first month online.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!