A new year often means making good intentions and goals for yourself and your company. Have you decided to write more for your company? Then make your intentions real goals and a good plan. Because with just the intention you will not get there and at the end of the year you will be disappointed again. With a good plan and good execution you can look back on the year in December and hopefully you will have achieved everything you want to do.
You can read more about setting goals and making plans in this blog.
Writing resolutions
Writing resolutions for your business can be very diverse. For example, you may want to write more messages for social media, start blogging (more), or start sending newsletters (again). In addition, you can also (re)write or optimize the texts of your website. Be aware that you cannot do everything at once, even if you still have a lot of energy now, at the beginning of a new ’empty’ year. Your agenda will soon be filled with appointments and work for clients, (network) meetings, training courses and your private appointments. Where do you want to find the time to write? And will you still be able to do everything you want to do? In this blog I will give you a number of steps that you need to think about to make your writing resolutions come true.
Make agreements with yourself
This is perhaps the most important thing to do. Just shouting that you have a resolution often does not work. We often shout that we are going to exercise more, live healthier and want more rest and relaxation, but are we really going to do this or does it remain shouting? It works the same with our business goals, we can shout something, but we can forget what we said.
If we make concrete agreements with ourselves (or with others), it is easier to get started. For example, write down for yourself how many writing how to build telemarketing data tasks you want to do. Think of writing messages for social media, writing blogs and newsletters and possibly (re)writing the texts of your website. Have you listed all of this? Then see how much of each you want to do or when.
For example, do you want to review your website sometime
This year and possibly rewrite it? Then see when you really have the time for that, for example in a period when you help few customers. Do you want to write a blog and newsletter every week or every 2 weeks? Or maybe monthly? Note this down too. Do the same for your social media. For example, write a message for Facebook/LinkedIn every day or 3 times a week.
For example:
- Post a blog once every 14 days
- Send a newsletter once every 14 days
- Post on Facebook 3 to 5 times a week
- 1 to 3 times a week a message on LinkedIn
- During a quiet period, review all website texts and see if they still suit me
Tip : sign your agreements and really agree to this with yourself.
Free up writing time
Making appointments is one thing, but actually ary mahafeno ny filany na tsia carrying them out is the next step. Something that can help you with this is making time for writing. For example, put in your agenda when you want to start writing your messages for social media and blog/newsletter. You can free up an entire morning or afternoon for all your content or spread a few hours throughout the week. For example, I often write part of my messages for social media on Monday or Friday, but a blog and newsletter on Thursday.
I also occasionally go out to work for a day, for example in the library, a café or a flexible workplace that I rent. I can often concentrate better there and write pieces more easily. I also agree on these times with myself in a weekly schedule that I make on Friday or Sunday evening for the new week. Always keep a close eye on things, because a child can always get sick or you can get sick yourself. But even then you can often find a new day or time to write.
Share your goals
Let people know what you are going to do. For example, tell your business friends that you are planning to rewrite the texts of your website in January. They might ask you about it halfway through January. Whether you are successful, how far you have come with it. Or you tell your followers on social media that a blog will be coming every two weeks. Then they expect it, some will even ask about it or come up with ideas that you can give tips about in a blog.
Evaluate
Also evaluate every month or quarter whether your writing goals have been achieved. Did you plan to blog every month for the first quarter? Then check after the first quarter whether this has been successful and whether you can blog more or keep it at once a month. Check this for each of your writing goals, have you managed to write messages for social media. See what you have achieved and what you will do differently in the coming quarter or month. Evaluating also means adjusting your goals and being satisfied if you have achieved them. Are you satisfied? You can also reward yourself if that works for you.
Discover your obstacles
Do you find that you are not able to actuall y adb directory pick up your writing intentions? Then find out what is holding you back. Do you start doing other things at the time you wanted to write? Is it because of the time or the place where you write? Are there too many distractions at that place? Or are you too easily called at that time? Make sure that the time and the place where you write do not become the problem why you are not able to do it. As a mother, do not write at the time when your children are constantly walking in and out of the room, because that will only distract them. Do not work in a busy café when you are distracted by all kinds of conversations around you.
Is your obstacle precisely that you have no topics for your blogs? Then first brainstorm for a list of topics. Is your obstacle that you are afraid of language errors in your blog? Then hire someone to proofread your blogs and correct the spelling and grammar. I can also help you with these things.
