39 Small Achievements That Will Lead To Big Blogging Results

Success in content marketing doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of effort and a commitment over a long period of time. It is a marathon and not a sprint. So how can you make success happen? A good beginner advice for finishing a marathon is to break up the race into smaller segments and set small milestones in order to make the distance feel more manageable.

Same works for your content marketing. Accumulating many smaller milestones and tiny wins regularly over a period of time will lead to big results down the line. These are the examples of small achievements that you should aim to achieve for your own site:

Small milestones and tiny wins

1. Registering your own domain name
2. Setting up a new WordPress site
3. Getting a personalized site design
4. Setting up your about page with information about yourself and a contact form
5. Installing Google Analytics and starting to collect visitor data
6. Publishing your first post
7. Attracting your first visitor
8. Publishing another post
9. Getting the first comment to your post
10. Publishing yet another post
11. Getting your first visitor from Google’s search traffic
12. Publishing your first top list post
13. Posting your first comment on another site
14. Getting your first visitor from social media
15. Making your first Dollar in advertising money
16. Publishing your first how-to instructional guide
17. Launching your own Twitter profile
18. Getting your first 10 Twitter followers
19. Starting your own Facebook page
20. Gaining your first 10 Facebook likes
21. Starting your own Google+ page
22. Getting your first 10 Google+ page likes
23. Publishing your first infographic
24. Starting your own YouTube channel
25. Recording your first video
26. Getting your first 5 YouTube subscribers
27. Submitting your first guest post proposal
28. Getting your first guest post published
29. Getting a first link from another blog
30. Achieving the first day of 100+ visitors
31. Making your first affiliate sale
32. Getting a nice email from a loyal visitor
33. Getting an enquiry from a company interested in working with you
34. Starting your own newsletter
35. Getting your first newsletter subscriber
36. Recording your first podcast
37. Seeing your podcast episode appear in the iTunes store
38. Creating your first product
39. Making the first sale of your own product

The power of compound interest

These milestones and tiny wins might feel insignificant to you at first. But if you do accumulate many of them over a long period of time they will make the difference. Even small achievements will result in big things given enough time and dedication. It’s just like the power of compound interest in economics.

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