Anyway sorry for the initial rant. I just have to get that off.

Now on to our topic for today and it’s a continuation of my 31DBBB experiment which I started at the beginning of this month. Day 2 is all about making a list post.

I love list posts. And here are 8 personal reasons why.

1. They look neat and organized
2. They are easy to digest in one reading
3. You don’t have to read the whole thing if you want yet you still get the idea of the post
4. They appear very well thought of (even if they don’t)
5. There’s a clear beginning and an end in each item on the list
6. At the end of the post you can easily pick out what you like best
7. You can also easily pick the one you don’t agree on
8. List posts often have less blah blah. They go straight to the point

Okay if you don’t have an idea of what a list post is, you are reading one right now. Tell me how you felt reading the last 8 items above? Ain’t it cool?

It’s no wonder Darren Rowse as well as other “gurus” of blogging place this as one of the ways to make great content and a key to becoming an effective blogger.

You can read the full article of Day 2 here.

Now on to my own list post.

Yup this post doesn’t count!

Charlie

Check out these related posts:

1. 31DBBB Day 1: Write An Elevator Pitch for Your Blog
2. The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Experiment
3. 12 Must Read Internet Business Free Reports
4. What is a blog?
5. 4 Habits of an Effective Blogger

And Day 1 says Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Blog. Wikipedia defines it this way.

An elevator pitch is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch can be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride (for example, thirty seconds and 100-150 words).

Now I have heard of this concept before while I was doing a training on how to improve your communication skil ls or was it the art of negotiation. I totally forgot, but nonetheless this should be an easy one since I have thought about this a lot in terms of a mission statement for my blog.

Darren recommends coming up with a long and short version of this so here is my try at it.

Long Version

Cajammed is all about helping people live a better life beyond their “BOX”. We do this in four ways…

• We inspire people to dream again, and dream BIG.
• We lead people to discover their real passions in life.
• We guide people to reach their fullest potential.
• We help people build a home-based internet business to sustain their dream.

We do this at cajammed “because everyone deserves a better life”.

Short Version

Cajammed is all about helping people discover and live a better life beyond their “BOX”.

So what do you think about this? Any suggestions on how to improve?

Charlie Aquino

Check out these related posts:

1. 31DBBB Day 2: Make a List Post
2. The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Experiment
3. What is a blog?

I’ve had it! Building a blog is not as easy at it seems especially when you are trying to juggle a lot of other responsibilities.

Here are some frustrations I had to face over the last months since I started cajammed.

• Information overload
• Too many things to try but so little time to do them all
• Running out of topics to write about
• Pressure to earn
• Not knowing how to best market my blog
• Finding the tools I need
• And a lot more…

There are many days I get stuck trying to find out what I need to do and what’s the next step I should take.

Should I update my site design? Should I write an article? Should I market my blog? Should I do social bookmarking? Should I do article marketing? How about twitter? Facebook?

Arrgh! It’s so frustrating at times that I just hang in there, staring blankly, thinking of what to do. And I end up having thought a lot but never accomplishing anything.

And you know what’s worse. I keep on reading other people’s blogs and feeding myself more information, as if there was never enough. :)

Okay today I STOP! Reassess everything and come up with a clear strategy to go about this. And so I got this book 31 Days to Build a Better Blog by Darren Rowse of Problogger. And here’s my idea…

I’m going to run an experiment with this blog and try to apply all the 31 principles until the end of this year and see how it develops. I’ll document all my learnings along the way so that you can benefit as well from what I do.

I hope this will really turn out well. To begin with I’ll set my baseline data here

• Date: September 23, 2009
• Pagerank: 0/10
• Yahoo Linkdomain: 427
• Yahoo Pagelinks: 1
• Alexa Ranking: 1,299,149
• Internal Links: 179
• External Links: 16
• RSS Subscribers: 18

Visits baseline from Sept 1 – 23, 2009

• Visits: 206
• Unique Visits: 92
• Pageviews: 515

Now let me try out this stuff and hope it works.

Check out these related posts:

1. 31DBBB Day 1: Write An Elevator Pitch for Your Blog
2. 31DBBB Day 2: Make a List Post
3. What is a blog?
4. 4 Habits of an Effective Blogger