Welcome to the New Year. I thought I would start things off about what happened to this blog during the last year. I am working. When I started this blog, I was not. But since January of 2012, I have not been fully vested in my blog. And I’d like to share with you the ways you can mess up your blog when life happens.

I believe the reason my blog got very little love from me is because when I started I had no Game Plan. I treated my blog as a journal, despite the great info I shared. If I had sat down and figured out even the most peculiar of details, I would probably have more entries or a better quality of entries. Whether it is because of work or just laziness, a game plan will go a very long way to helping maintain a blog.

Even with no game plan, you can still blog. But blogging was not a top priority. A lot of things came before blogging. If you want a successful or even moderately successful blog, you need to post regularly. If it’s once a month, then choose the date and stick to it.

Imagine my surprise that I gained one follower despite not doing much to gain any. I am also guilty of networking on the wrong places. The top three places get me nothing, and the places that do, I have not visited in weeks. Instead of keeping a presence, I disappeared. And of course, when that happens, my blog did not grow.

If I (or you) am to be serious about blogging, then I need to create a game plan, and then give my blogs some priority. If growth is part of the game plan, then I need to network.

What are some of the things you’ve done to make your blog more successful? Or what are some of the things you didn’t do?