Over the last few months, I have been experimenting to see what it would take to grow my blog followers and I’ve come up with some really great ways of doing this. After trying many different things, I have found the following list has helped me to grow my followers:

• Share tips that are helpful
• Ask for followers to comment and share your blog posts with others
• Automatically have your blog update social networks
• Incorporate Feedburner as my RSS manager
• Apply SEO to blog posts
• Invite guest bloggers to share their knowledge
• Be consistent in sharing at least 3 times per week

This is just a starter list of what I’ve done to grow my blog followers. I would like to know what you have done to grow your blog followers so please feel free to share your insight.

Have you loved on your blog today by spending time with it? What I mean by this is have you added a new post to it so that it will know that you still love it? I’m declaring it “Love Your Blog” Day and encouraging all bloggers to love on their blog today.

If you have already loved on your blog then I applaud you and encourage you to do this everyday. I wained a little bit in showing love to my blog but now I’m back and looking forward to spending time sharing my knowledge via my blog.

Some of the ways that I’m loving on my blog:

• Updating plugins
• Updating WordPress installation
• Adding plugins that make it run better
• Adding content that encourages others to read it’s feed
• Sharing links to it
• Applying SEO techniques
• And finally, updating the look of it

What are some ways that you love on your blog?

I was selected to blog on Today.com and my blog channel is entitled “Energize Your Business”. You can find the blog at http://EnergizeYourBusiness.Today.com.

The focus of this blog will be to help business owners energize and strategize to grow their online presence. Looking forward to sharing information that will be beneficial to helping business owner grow their business.

Are you interested in being interviewed, please feel free to contact me using the contact form on http://KimBeasley.com

Yesterday I made a business decision to ask for accountability partners as part of my business makeover. I sent a request out to Twitterville* and three of my tweeples** answered back to let me know that they would hold me accountable. The three who will be my acccountability partners are Latara (@LataraHamYing), Christine (@neosoulsister), and Dee (@deegospel).

Why did I ask for accountability partners? I did this so that I will have someone who would check on me to make sure that I’m following through with my plans. It is always important that you not only have a mentor, who will guide you in the right direction, but you also need accountability partners, who will hold you accountable to what you have decided to do. Having accountability partners is not something new but if you don’t have at least one, you are doing yourself a disfavor.

When determining who your accountability partner should be, you should keep the following thing in mind:

• Have a plan first that you have created with your mentor
• Choose your accountability partners wisely
• Make sure that you trust your accountability partners
• Make a S.M.A.R.T.*** accountability schedule
• Be open to constructive feedback from your accountability partners
• HAVE FUN!

As I continue on my business makeover journey, I’m looking forward to having your feedback. If you have additional determining factors that you include with choosing an accountability partner, please share them. Also I will be creating an accountability list with my partners that we will all agree to. Do you have suggestion regarding what should be on this list? Please feel free to leave a comment containing your suggestions.

*Twitterville: the environment for those who use Twitter **Tweeple: your friends on Twitter ***S.M.A.R.T. = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely