By Clive Hooper
I have just attended our weekly webinar with Dean Holland and he has been talking about traffic generation and becoming a master of one craft at a time, and how consistency is the backbone to success. He suggested several traffic sources I.e. blog posting, video, forum posting, Facebook and that mastering a craft can also mean a combination of a couple of the above.
He is also told us that persisting with the chosen method will in time render results and that not committing to this will only end up with “snail pace” traffic increases. So we need to make our chosen methods a habit.
According to Wikipedia
A habit is a routine of behaviour that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously. In the American Journal of Psychology (1903) it is defined in this way: “A habit, from the standpoint of psychology, is a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience.”Habitual behaviour often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks.
Dean suggested try to do one or a combination of the following daily
• A blog post every day for 60 – 90 days
• A video on YouTube every day for 60 – 90 days
• A forum post every day for 60 – 90 days
• a Facebook page posting every day for 60 – 90 days
One thing I try to do regularly is a blog post and then post to several social media and web2.0 site, this can be very time consuming when done manually, so I found a very neat WordPress plugin call NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster (SNAP) that is FREE.
SNAP will publish nicely formatted messages to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+(Google+), Blogger, LiveJournal, Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Plurk, VKontakte(VK.com), WordPress, and Tumblr accounts. So now you have mastered at least one of the above even if it is automatic.
I would say this strategy will only work with blogging, but doing this allows more time to then focus on the other methods. Regards how to make the other methods habitual, I can’t comment because they will be a new venture for me also.
Taking on board all the things that Dean mentioned in the call, the watchword for me is make these chosen methods a habit but if technology can help, use it, providing it doesn’t detracted from your personality or strategic goals. That being said my next method will be that of “forum posting”, which I still have a problem getting my head around.
I’m sure there are many tips that you could add about forum posting, so how about adding some here! Please, feel free to leave a comment below with your number one tip that you would give to a newbie who wanted to start a forum posting.