2 builders who never spoke to each other
Publish while nobody is reading yet
Expect roughly nobody on day one and post anyway. Write up whatever you just worked out for yourself and count your own future self as the reader who justifies it. Setting a concrete target, such as reaching the first page for the keywords you picked, turns the habit into something you can measure while the audience is still zero.
The method
- 01
Expect almost nobody on day one and publish anyway.
- 02
Write up the thing you just worked out for yourself, and count your own future self as the reader who justifies it.
- 03
Stand up a blog on a narrow topic and set yourself the target of reaching the first page of Google for the keywords you chose.
What it returned
- 20
First article: around 20 views on its first day.
- 20
His first post was short and mostly pasted screenshots. It drew 20 views on day one and about 285 in total, and he says he has gone back to it repeatedly.
Sources
- My 2020 Blogging JourneyBhanu Teja · bhanuteja.dev · Aug 11, 2020 - Add Typescript to your Next.js project (1/27) · 2020-12-31
- How to get a job in marketing | Corey HainesCorey Haines · corey.co · 2024-06-18
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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