This Blog Launch post is a part of “2 Weeks To Launch Your Blog“.

Well, it’s finally over!  The 2 week long project,

“2 Weeks To Launch Your Blog”

just ended today.  It’s been an exciting, fun 2 week overview of the blog launch process.

In all, we’ve had 49 posts and another 11 guest submissions - that’s 60 blog tips for your use when you launch your next blog.  In addition to the short guidelines I posted, our guest contributions helped fill any gaps in the structure, and even expanded the scope and horizon of the process.

You now have a blueprint that you can model during the launch of your next blog - in 2 weeks or less!

To quickly recap our discussion, what are your main activites as a blogger?

It will depend on your blogging strategy, but will very likely include some or all of these tasks:

• outlining a cohesive blogging strategy to follow
• finding, creating or outsourcing your content
• designing your blog along the lines of the blogging structure tips
• publishing your blog content, following your blog process
• marketing and promoting your blog to drive traffic to it
• including, monitoring and testing income streams to identify the best ones
• managing elements of SEO
• measuring progress and making course corrections

In addition, 2 other things you must do as a smart blogger include:

- Watching trends, keeping your eye on the big picture, noticing shifts in the blogging environment and in your niche, so you can recognize changes and prepare for them (or even re-orient your business) before circumstances force it upon you.

- Tracking performance, studying your critical numbers and comparing them against past reports to make sure you are progressing and making satisfactory progress along your chosen course.  Carefully monitoring these internal trends will help you modify and adapt your strategy to an ever-changing reality.

In summary, these are the tasks and activities that will ensure that your new blog will be fast off the blocks and race away to become wildly successful.  There may be tasks in this list that you are already a master at.  And there may be a few you don’t do at all, or are not maximizing.

Hopefully this short course and our wonderful guest contribution tips have helped identify areas to improve and solidify so your progress ahead is smooth, fast and profitable.