It’s the beginning of 2010 and already I have come across 2 people that have made blogging their new years resolution. This is an awful idea… not the act of blogging, but the idea that you want to blog more. Do you know what this screams?

this screams, I have absolutely no idea what internet marketing or social media is all about. If you follow this plan you will not be blogging in June of 2010.

Here is the secret, instead of saying “I’m going to blog more” or “I’m going to blog everyday”, change your mindset and say “I’m going to get 10 new subscribers every week”. Do you see the difference?

One is goal oriented and one is task oriented

Goal oriented let’s you forget about the minuscule tasks it takes to reach a goal while task oriented puts all the focus on the little things that take up all your time. a few months later your hitting all your tasks but none of the results are manifesting. Why is that? It’s because as soon as you finish a task your done, there is no big picture, there is no reason, you just know that you have to do something.

What’s more important a blog? that has 10 times more content then all the other blogs in the same topic, or the blog that has the most readers, subscribers and fans. Content and fans do not go hand in hand. people don’t read blogs for a lot of content, they read it for information, ideas, views that they will not get anywhere else.

So, really, I think blogging is a great idea, just make sure you have your priorities set straight on why you are blogging at all.

If you really want my honest opinion about blogging, especially if you don’t have a blog and want to start one now, would be to really think about upcoming forms of media… most notably, video. I’ll be blogging about this soon, but the way we consume information is moving from text to video. I’m getting on the video bandwagon. I got a new pocket cam coming in about a week, and vlogging is my #1 reason why I got it.