I just finished reading a post at Problogger by Tina Su from ThinkSimpleNow.com . Its from January, either I missed it then or something. Anyway its From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days.

Tina makes some good points in it that might help me. She thinks her blog has been successful for these reasons:

1) Concrete Goals & Focus

I think I’ve needed to be more focussed and maybe that has been one of my problems. I’ve got my blog a bit more narrowed down though. Sort of anyway. I think so.

2) Content Creation

This is always still a challenge for me - I’m better with coming up with ideas now but still find it hard to find the time to write.

She gave some good tips though that I really need to keep in mind:

“I like to write as if I’m talking to my best friend, giving them the best I have.”

“Use Personal Examples - People love stories. This allows them to relate with you on a personal level and connect with you as friends.”

I don’t use picture though. Personally I could never see the point of getting an image somewhere that really isn’t exactly of the thing you are writing about. Maybe I could try to come up with some other type of graphics to use.

3) Getting the Word Out

A long time ago this was really a problem for me - I do better with it now, but I need to do better. One problem I have is I really don’t know what’s acceptable. For example, I just redesigned by blog but I don’t know to what extent it is acceptable to tell everyone. I have people and bloggers I know, but I don’t feel that I know them well enough to tell them to come look at my new design. Seems too pushy or rude. But I don’t know, I’m not good at gaging that type of stuff.

I need to be better with replying back to people who leave comments too. I was doing this for a while, but am pretty behind with it now.

And I need to get more familiar with Stumble and Digg.

Tina also says not to be shy and to email people and introduce yourself and even suggests emailing her for practice - so I will do that as soon as I’m finished writing this!