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Meta-Improvement For Article Marketers
By Mike Collins | March 27, 2008
A few days ago I read a great article at Problogger, in which guest author Easton Ellsworth discussed what he thinks is the most important skill a blogger can have…Meta-Improvement.
Put simply, meta-improvement is just the ability to improve yourself at a faster and faster rate so that your overall skills improve exponentially. To paraphrase Easton, you want to improve more today than you did yesterday. Each day your goal is not just to improve, but improve at a higher and higher rate.
Meta-improvement can be applied to just about any aspect of your life you wish to develop, but today I’m going to discuss it in terms of article marketing.
A great number of visitors to my niche sites (and therefore a great deal of my revenue) comes directly from article marketing.
I’m certainly not the greatest writer out there, but I do enjoy writing and I’ve become very good at using articles to drive readers to my sites.
But you may struggle to write good articles. It may take you a couple of hours to research, write, edit, and submit each article. That’s a lot of time to devote to a single article, so you can use meta-improvement principles to develop your skills until you’re churning out 2 or 3 articles in an hour.
Here’s two different ways you can use meta-improvement to increase your writing speed…
1. Track how long it takes you to write an article and use that as a basis for improvement. If it take you 2 hours to write one article, try shaving 5 minutes off that time. Then try cutting another ten minutes. Keep practicing and writing until you reach a speed that allows you to write at maximum efficiency.
2. Track how many articles you write each month. If you currently write 30 per month, shoot for 35, then 45, then 60. Before long you’ll be a content-producing machine.
This is just a simple example, but it demonstrates how you can can make large gains in a relatively short period of time.
Topics: Article Marketing, Self-Improvement |
March 27th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
You summarized the idea wonderfully, Mike! It just takes some detailed regular self-analysis to become able to improve exponentially.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Thanks Easton! I really appreciate the positive feedback.