Nine Ways to Reset Your Blog

The beginning of September is like hitting the reset button.

The pool is closed. School has been in session for a few weeks & we are settling into the rhythm of alarm clocks & school bus schedules & date nights & football games & car pools & homework & meal planning.

We need a season reset.

We can do the same thing for our blogs can’t we?

Here are a nine ways {because September is the 9th month} we can the hit reset buttons for our blogs:

1. Reevaluate the purpose statement of your blog & for your readers. Don’t have one? Read Why Your Blog Needs a Purpose Statement Now.

2. Refresh your About Page with fresh pictures & new links to current posts that you want to highlight.

3. If you are a shop owner, highlight a new product or have an amazing sale to get ready for new product for the fall.

4. Take a look at your sidebar. Is it crowded? Is it pretty or annoying? Take some time to evaluate it & rearrange accordingly.

5. Do you have a writing schedule for the fall? Look at the calendar and map out your posts.

6. Evaluate your social media pages. Consider making every profile picture the same so you’re recognizable across all social media pages. Put that picture on your about page too. Maybe your Facebook & Twitter cover photos need to be refreshed?

7.  Still working on that Media Kit? Set aside some time to tweak it & send it out or put it on your site. {Check out The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Media Kit for a ton of information}.

8. Are you attending Allume {I hope so & I can’t wait to meet you!} or another conference this fall? Get your business cards ready! Moo.com has some fun sizes. I just had some made from my Instagram pictures & the business cards are square too!

9. Streamline the apps on your mobile device to optimize your time when you use your mobile device to promote your blog. Have you heard of IFTTT? It stands for If This Then That. Use this app to create “Recipes” for a certain action. For instance, I want my Instagram picture to show up on my Twitter feed when I post a new picture. Doesn’t it already do that? Yes and no. Since Instagram & Twitter stopped being BFFs, the tweet wouldn’t show the picture, just a link to the picture. Browsing through IFTTT, I found a “recipe” that when I post a picture to Instagram it will tweet the picture AND it will show up in the twitter feed. No extra clicking. That’s just one of many ways that you can streamline your mobile device with this app!

I hope you have a great September! I’d love to hear how you have hit the reset button for your blog – share it in the comments below.