Can You Do ONE PERCENT Better?

Slow and steady wins the race, but this is a little mental trick to achieve that faster than you think.

It’s the one percent rule. It works because compounding that 1% makes it incredibly powerful. The one percent mindset breaks down those major goals into very manageable concepts.

Each time you do something, do it with the intention of making it one percent better.

-        Writing a post, make it one percent better than your best post

-        Make it one percent better Keyword targeted

-        Increase your subscriptions with one percent

-        Make your comments on other blogs 1% better, giving you 1% more visitors

-        Make 1% better comments in forums

-        Participate 1% more in Social Media

So how effective is this?
Compounding daily over a year. 1% turns into 3854%

Applied on several levels, that compounding will impact every other level as well, resulting in some pretty serious numbers.

Let’s do the math on this

Start with your best day. On this day let’s assume you made a great post that got you:

200 total hits
2 new RSS subscribers
1 Trackback link

If you work every day on being one percent better, you will have 7,540 NEW readers on your post this time next year. That’s over 7000 NEW readers in that one day one year from today.

Total unique visitors in that one year… hold on. 740,000+

Say that you convert +1% of your new readers into RSS subscriptions every day. Which means that your subscriptions go up 1% (Win some-Lose some)
(My conversion rate is 3.4% so this is actually aiming low.)

That’s a total of 7584 new subscribers in a year.

You will have amassed about 3600 links in that year to your blog.

Now apply that to the value of your blog in terms of:

Pricing for advertising.
Number of clicks you are getting on your ads,
Total value of your blog

And you will see that in a year, your blog could be earning a decent income.

Is This Really Possible?

Well you are reading the proof. This blog has been online now exactly 85 days, and the numbers I am seeing are proving the theory. On average, my stats are up 1.1% per day. Yesterday was the first day my Alexa ranking went under 100,000 (62,215) to be exact. Yes it’s a spike, the average fluctuates. But the average increase holds true.

I’ve had horrific days too, when i couldn’t figure out what the…. happened. It’s all part of the daily grind of running a business

I am convinced that the determined, focused, and driven can make a living doing this. Use the tips and tricks I’ve given in the previous Blogpreneur Posts, and you should be able to make a very decent living without doubt. Just remember that it won’t be tomorrow.

You’ll have great days, and not so great ones. But the sooner you pick your start date, and plot the one percent rule on a chart, the sooner you will be able to focus on what really matters.  - Steady improvement.

Go out there and get your 1% today