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How to get 2000 RSS Subscribers in 3 Months

January 29, 2008

The Tony Robbins Part…

People with no experience with blogging or building authority are doing incredible things in short periods of time with their blogs. You can too if your heart is in it. The thing that motivates most people is their goals. If you don’t have specific goals and realistic deadlines that push you to achieve greatness, your campaign is dead from the start.

Hint: “I want to make money” is not a goal.

A-List Bloggers, Current and Future, All Share the Same Traits

What I’ve noticed from every successful blog owner I’ve ever reviewed or consulted with is that they are motivated to learn and apply what they learn diligently. They don’t cheat or look for the easy way out (there isn’t one) and they will stop at nothing to see their goals realized.

1. They get up early and work before they go to their “real jobs.”
2. They come home and work into the night, often losing sleep to meet their deadlines.
3. They think deeply about content and their visitors’ needs.
4. They study their market and stay up to date on the relevant hot topics and capitalize on them to generate great, unique content.
5. They network heavily. From social marketing to doing “favors” for bloggers who are higher up on the food chain in order to gain favor with them. (Links being one big favor!)
6. They are thought leaders. Not just followers. They start conversations in addition to participating in conversations started by others.
7. They will do anything to meet a self-imposed deadline for content development, marketing goals and traffic benchmarks.
8. They are motivated by the lure of being financially independent to such a degree that there is almost nothing they wouldn’t sacrifice in the short term to see their long term success. (Most share sleep as the biggest sacrifice!)
9. They don’t expect anything to be handed to them. They earn everything they get as a result of hard work, creativity, and being a thought leader in their niches.
10. They never cheat or look for the easy way out and they don’t believe sales pitches that make schemes and scams sound like the mythical “instant reward” syndrome most new bloggers fall for.
11. Their content is superior, deep, imaginative, and always has a “hook” that almost forces new readers to subscribe to their blog to see what’s next.
12. They generate a hunger in their readership for the value they become known for producing in each and every post.
13. Their readership has a high return ratio. Example: This blog has a 37% return visitor ratio.

If you adopt these traits you will see significant progress in your blog’s growth, rankings, and links. It’s almost guaranteed.

Here’s A Case Study From A New Blogger Who Acquired 2000+ RSS Subscribers in 3 Months
Follow this guide laid out by Tina Su who wrote an excellent piece for ProBlogger recently. You can mirror her system to gain a lot of readers in a very short time.

Related: Social Marketing Advice You Really REALLY Need!
If you are working on a social marketing campaign for your site (you’d BETTER be) then a related story from Search Engine Land is essential reading today: “15 Fundamental Truths About Social Media Marketing

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7 Responses to “How to get 2000 RSS Subscribers in 3 Months”

  1. Andrew Daum on January 29th, 2008 2:02 pm

    Thanks for that Jack.

    Tina sure has a clean crisp looking blog.

    It is funny how most blogs started out looking that way - using a variation of the simplistic theme.

    Then We ventured off and made them look like the Midway at the Fair - now a 180 and back to the Simplistic look.

    Andrew

    P.S. Now I’m gonna get me some “commentluv”… thanks :-)
    Andrew Daum’s last blog post..Small Business Marketing: How To Do It Yourself

  2. Jack Humphrey on January 29th, 2008 2:27 pm

    See now was that so hard? :)

    You must have me in comment sniper or something. That was pretty fast too. You trolling my blog?!?

  3. Alice Stevens on January 29th, 2008 4:08 pm

    Thanks, Jack for bringing Tina’s blog to our attention. It is an excellent blog- but so is yours.

    I’ve admired the simple, factual, honest approach of your blog for a long time. I know I’ll find great content here.

    Alice Stevens’s last blog post..GROW Group Wants to Keep Elderly Out of Wheelchairs

  4. Andrew on February 1st, 2008 10:49 am

    No… I have you “Alerted”…. but thanks for the reminder on sniper.

    But I never did receive a notification on the comment via email.

    Andrew

    Andrew’s last blog post..How To Lose Your Current Customers, or not!

  5. Jack Humphrey on February 1st, 2008 11:53 am

    Yeah I haven’t loaded that plugin yet.

  6. Andrew on February 1st, 2008 9:03 pm

    Well… it emailed me the last comment - so you must have turned it on?

    Andrew

    Andrew’s last blog post..Internet Marketing and Poppin’ the Rag

  7. Jack Humphrey on February 2nd, 2008 7:00 am

    Oh - that’s the subscribe to comments plugin. That mails every time this is updated, like now. :)

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