I saw two guys on twitter put out a call asking people to join their writing accountability group. The plan was to write every day for 30 days. Format and content doesn’t matter. Just have to hit publish. As someone that wrote occasionally without any discipline this seemed great! I joined the group and got cracking.
Here are my takeaways from it:
Results: In the 30-day sprint, I hit publish 22 times. 70%. Not terrible, not great. However, I now have 22 more pieces of content on my blog than I did before.
Eyeballs: 238 new visitors. Organic traffic. As you can see, significantly higher volume of traffic than this website gets.
Overlap: Writing the blog daily, started bringing more traffic to my podcast! People that saw the article of the day, read more (if they liked the content, some of it was hit-and-miss) and ended up listening to my podcast
Time Blocks: The reason I had not been consistent with writing earlier was the supposed lack of time. Now that I knew I had to hit publish everyday, the time magically appeared. I used my commute time to the office to write on my phone. It replaced the time I spent scrolling social media in transit. 20 minutes of focus time.
New Friends: The accountability crew is now a new set of friends! I met one of them in person and I look forward to meeting them all soon! Everyone wrote about different things. I learned about different subjects that I normally wouldn’t have.
I had fun doing this challenge and I’ve set a commitment to write twice a week.
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