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During the month of September I will be running what I like to call a twitter series. Each day of the month, I will tweeting a new blogging tip on twitter and tagging it “30 days to kick your blog in the butt”. It should be a fun series to run and we are already receiving a lot of  feedback and comments about it. We plan to feature some of our followers comments and suggestions in an upcoming blog post as part of a series here on Blog For Profit. We will also make available here on Blog For Profit a post listing out each and every one of the “30 days to kick your blog in the butt” tweets.

Since you have taken the time to follow my ramblings on twitter, I am giving you first look at this upcoming special series we will be running on Blog For Profit.

By the way, this is a long post, but important. Please read it all!

31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt

If there is one pattern I hate to see it is the new blogger who starts off with a huge bang and all kinds of enthusiasm and it drops off. They post to their blog and do all those things they need to do to have a successful blog. But for some reason it just stops. Even the “seasoned” blogger runs into a brick wall from time to time and for some reason they have “lost it”.

What are the possible reasons for this?

• They run out of things to write about, or at least they think they have
• They get so busy with the business the blog generated, they don’t have time to post, blah, blah, blah
• They don’t feel like anyone is reading their blog, and of course not posting is a way to get readers back. D’oh!!
• They just can’t think of any good headlines to put on their post, so they stop posting
• They are not getting comments on their blog, have they asked for them or do they reply to the ones they get.
• They have a blog that just is not attracting readers or if they show up, they don’t stay long enough to read the content.
• They have failed to connect with their readers so the readers feel like they can trust the blogger and the blogger gets discouraged because no one is stopping by
• They don’t feel like they have built a community with their blog, but why, what have they failed to do
• They don’t have anyone subscribing to their blog, without new content what do they expect.

I really could go on and on. And after I typed out the above list, I am thinking perhaps the title of this series should be “31 days to kick the blogger in the butt“. Starting on October 1st, we are going to discuss at least 31 ways you can kick your blog in the butt, (or yourself in the butt) so your blog either gets a great start or it gets a restart. Intermingled between each day’s post will be some bonus post and material you will be able to use along the way.

How you can participate in the Kick Your Blog in the Butt series

I have run something similar to this series in the past and the response has been great. This time I have decided to run it differently. So if you are wanting to Kick Your Blog in the Butt and are wanting to participate so you get the greatest benefit, please read on carefully.

For 31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt I am asking those participating to sign up as registered participants. You don’t have to, but to get the full benefits from it, I wish you would. And if you get tired of me during the 31 days, you can unsubscribe at anytime.

You can register here and I am going to explain more on why I am doing it this way below.

Here are the details for the 31 Days to Kick Your blog in the Butt series

The reason for and why

I have been thinking about doing this series for at least 3 or 4 months, but I wanted it to be different. I wanted those who read it to come away with more than just a few bookmarks added to their browser. What I wanted was a group of bloggers who were willing to set aside a month of their valuable time to work on improving their blogs. And a group of brand new bloggers or those thinking about blogging taking some time to seriously look at what they need to do to make sure their launch or new blog kicks some serious butt. In addition to wanting a good core group of bloggers, new and seasoned, I wanted the group to not put off those things they need to be doing now to “I’ll do it someday”. For me, I find I am more serious about things if I actually sign up to do something. There is something about doing that which makes us more accountable to ourselves. So, have I peeked your interest yet?

How all of this is going to work

Each day, starting on October 1st and until the end of the month, I will be posting here on Blog For Profit a new post which will be part of the 31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt Series. In addition to the post, there will be an email going out each and every day about that day’s post and some bonus material too. But only those who sign up will get the emails. The posts will be written to include:

• A discussion or teaching component
• A task/homework/assignment component

The idea is to move past just teaching and giving you information. Only providing the teaching element overlooks the importance of actually prompting you to digest the material and DO something. I want you to get your hands dirty and do something with what I hope you will be learning from the material. And while some of you are not new to blogging and have heard some of this before, I am hoping you will be inspired to put what you know into action. And, kick your blog in the butt so it is actually working for you.

How you can Participate

As I indicated above, this time around I am asking those who want to take part in Kicking their Blogs in the Butt series to register their email addresses. You will receive one email per day over the 31 days letting you know a new post is up, giving you the link to it and a little extra information for those who registered. Remember, you don’t have to signup for the email updates and the little extras. In fact you can follow the new post via our RSS feed. However, I am asking you to register for a few really good reasons:

1. Signing up will sometimes make us more accountable to do what we say we will do.
2. It will allow me to give a little extra information than the post contain on their own. The blog post will be written in a way anyone can benefit from them. Whether you do all of the suggested task or not. The emails which I will be sending each day will include a little extra information which is relevant to those doing the suggested task/homework/assignments. I am also working on getting a couple of top notch bloggers to provide guest post which will go out only to those who registered.
3. I am also hoping this time our 31-Day series will live well beyond the original 31 days it runs. Doing it this way will allow people to signup and do the 31-Days at any point as the emails will be sent out via my favorite auto-responder, Aweber.
4. I am selfish and I love the community you and I have built here at Blog For Profit. And I want it to continue to grow to the point we might be able to start a forum or a built in social networking feature.
5. Finally, there are at least two additional things we are working on as a bonus for those who register. I will be writing more about that as we finalize the details.

If you do signup for the 31-Days and you decide at any point it is not for you, you are welcome to unsubscribe. No hard feelings at all. I know how busy you all are. Once the 31–Days of Kick Your Blog in the Butt series is over, I am not planning on sending out too many more emails. We may add a few extra task from time to time. And we may make a few special announements too. However, the daily emails will stop.

Finally, thank you goes out to @MikhaelaCraig for doing a great job getting us the above logo for 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt.

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