Back in January I decided to set myself some blog and personal goals. For the first time ever I wanted my blog goals to be quite specific and so I set myself targets in terms of the numbers of social media followers, so I could really focus on growth. For me, it is easy to say keep growing and becoming more successful/profitable, but months can pass quickly and before you know it, the end of the year rolls round meaning it’s too late to focus on what you wanted to achieve.
I wanted to focus not only on the numbers, but also on the emotional side of blogging too. The following questions asked each quarter should help me to stay focus on positivity and making sure I keep benefiting in ways I want to from blogging.
What was your proudest accomplishment of the last quarter?
- My proudest moment in this quarter was reaching number 9 in the Tots100 rankings!
What did you accomplish from the last quarter?
- I survived! Seriously, I kept on top of work and family life, not brilliantly but I managed it. I still have work to do though in terms of balance.
- I worked with lots of new clients.
Did you experience any disappointments during the last quarter?
- In March when my Tots score dropped about 20 places. I was gutted.
- Too many nights waking up at 3am on the couch having fallen asleep working.
What changes will you make going forward to ensure that this doesn’t happening again?
- I need to be stricter with my 11.30pm cut off time to stop work.
How do you want to feel during the next 3 months?
- I would like to feel more in control.
- Less tired!
What can you do to ensure you feel like that more often?
- Hopefully bullet journaling will help!
- Be very strict with my 11.30pm end of day, no more post 12 midnight sessions.
What are you really looking forward to doing/ achieving/ experiencing?
- Speaking at my first blog conference.
- Attending BritMums Live.
- Family holiday (which we will review!).
What plans, goals or milestones are you working towards this quarter?
- Continue to work towards follower goals.
- Try to climb higher in the Tots rankings.
The stats
- Twitter – 2nd Jan – 14,492 End of year target 20k 1st quarter target 15,869 Achieved 17,429
- Facebook- 2nd Jan – 5,337 End of year target 8k 1st quarter target 6002 Achieved 5678
- Pinterest – 2nd Jan – 2,492 End of year target 5k 1st quarter target 3092 Achieved 3175
- Instagram- 2nd Jan – 4,202 End of year target 10k 1st quarter target 6652 Achieved 7658
As you can see I passed three out of my four follower growth targets. Facebook is still a tricky one for me and is a little neglected, so my figures don’t surprise me. I am so happy with my Instagram following, when I set my 10k target for the year I thought I was being far too optimistic, yet I am ahead of target.
Onwards and hopefully upwards for the next quarter. Did you have a good start to the year?
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Love this blog update, always good to look back on past performance, which I have started doing on my blog, as a way to celebrate and record the achievements x
Well done Aby, as usual you are such an inspiration. So pleased for you. I would be interested to know how you grow your twitter, mine has been about the same for over a year. Xx
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Awesome. Inspiring. Brilliant. Well done Aby x
Awesome. Inspiring. Brilliant. Well done Aby x #TheList
You are such an inspiration! Well done on achieving so many blogging goals! Speaking at your first blogger conference too – eeeeks! That is really exciting 🙂 #thelist
Well done Aby! You’ve such an inspiration, hope you can keep to the 11.30pm curfew 🙂 #thelist
I think it’s great you have proper goals, and apart from the late nights (I know those too), it seems to be going well.
I’m a lot more lax, my aim’s just to improve although March wasn’t great after 2 brilliant months. My main aims for this quarter are to actually make time to complete the courses I started and haven’t finished. Very annoyed that I’ve let them slide, but adding 2 evenings a week dancing means I’ve automatically lost about 10 hours of blogging and time for courses that I had previously.
A very inspiring post… thanks for sharing. Number 9 in the Tots100 – that’s wow!!! Congratulations on achieving so many goals and here’s to the next quarter!
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Aby you are seriously one of the most dedicated bloggers I know. Well done you really deserve the success. I have started writing down some blog goals and I am hoping it gets me a little more focussed. xxx
Well done on achieving so many of your goals. I think it’s a good thing to set specific goals like this rather than just saying “I want to grow my blog.” Something for me to learn here. You may find you will be working late less as Baby’s hours increase at nursery? Thanks for hosting #TheList x
Great work, it is good that you look at the emotional side and ways to get a balance. Looking after your Hethersett is so important as can really impact on your wellbeing X #thelist
Wow, you’re doing a ruddy good job with those stats! fab work and I think i need more structure to my blogging and cut off times area good idea. thanks for sharing and keep up the good work 🙂 #TheList
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Thanks so much x
This is a great idea for seeing improvement. I like the coaching inspired questions. Best of luck with it all. Looking forward to seeing you at BML16 #TheList
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These are great questions to use to tap into where you are at and where you want to go with blogging. I bet you will be fantastic at that talk as you seem to know so much. May you continue to have many more fantastic achievements. #TheList
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Thank you so much x
You are absolutely smashing your goals lady – well done! I love your strategic approach to each channel too as they’re all so different. Well done on your awesome Tots ranking too!! #TheList
Well done on your goals! I hope you Start feeling a little more refreshed now the summer is coming. Remember that nightly work cut off! I can imagine how exhausted you feel but it can be addictive once you’re in the middle of something. Do you do anything to actively grow your following or is it something that grows naturally? I do know you were one of the first I followed! Thanks for hosting x
You’ve done amazingly – well done! I had a god February – all gone a bit to pot since! 😀 #thelist
So inspired by your blogging goals! You’ve done such a fantastic job already, im sure you’ll achieve all your goals, if not surpass them by the end of the year 🙂 Emily
It’s great to have goals, and track our progress against them Aby! I love bullet journalling, it helps me and hope it helps you too. Do try not to let numbers upset you though lovely, things like Tots are largely out of our control, and life is too short xx #thelist
This is great! A true inspiration xx