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Today’s giveaway is a Know Your Blog’s Competition Worksheet. First read the post on why you should know your blog’s competition.

Then download a copy of the worksheet for this exercise:

• Blog Competition Analysis Worksheet: Word version
• Blog Competition Analysis Worksheet: PDF version

Knowing who your competition will also help you work out who are your possible allies. It’s not all a dog eat dog world! 

Please feel free to email this worksheet to anyone who might find this useful – such non-commercial sharing is not only authorised, it’s encouraged! Otherwise, if you’d like to share the direct links to the worksheets, please link to this blog post (not the individual file download addresses as these may change when I change hosting).

This is part of our Chinese New Year Giveaway. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing.

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Today’s giveaway is a Know Your Niche Worksheet. First read the post on what a niche is and how knowing what yours is can help you.

Then download a copy of the worksheet for this exercise:

• Niche Analysis Worksheet: Word version
• Niche Analysis Worksheet: PDF version

I wonder if you can guess the relevance of this picture to the Know Your Niche Worksheet?

Hint: look at the bird’s tail…

It’s a Long Tail!  Subject areas of interest can be broken down into smaller and smaller niches like the tail on a graph. The worksheet helps you identify which niche or niches you want to target. 

Please feel free to email this worksheet to anyone who might find this useful – such non-commercial sharing is not only authorised, it’s encouraged! Otherwise, if you’d like to share the direct links to the worksheets, please link to this blog post (not the individual file download addresses as these may change when I change hosting).

This is part of our Chinese New Year Giveaway. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing.

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I subscribe to Mari Smith’s  Online Marketing Tips eZine. She’s a Relationship Marketing Specialist and has run courses on Facebook amongst others – she’s a great mentor if you need help in this area. Yesterday she sent round an issue with a quote that I just love and had to share with you:

Um, is it just me or do you often find that life speeds up so fast your day goes by in a blur?  I tweeted this out not long ago and was heartened to receive this response back from @Canterucci:

“@MariSmith I think life is always that fast. Some days you just participate more.“

(CC Licenced image source: Daniel Morris via Flickr)

I’m a big fan of the power of reframing. We can’t control everything that happens in life, but we can control how we react. This was a really empowering way of seeing a busy day – instead of feeling that loss of control that can happen when we find we have so much on our plate, it’s a reminder that we are still proactive forces.

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Today’s giveaway is a Blog Purpose Analysis Worksheet. First read the post on why determining your blog’s purpose is so important.

Then download a copy of the worksheet for this exercise:

• Blog Purpose Analysis Worksheet: Word version
• Blog Purpose Analysis Worksheet: PDF version

Knowing your blog’s purpose will help you stick to doing things that will advance your goals and steer you away from things that are harmful. This worksheet will help you identify your reasons for blogging and whether there are any conflicts.

Please feel free to email this worksheet to anyone who might find this useful – such non-commercial sharing is not only authorised, it’s encouraged!Otherwise, if you’d like to share the direct links to the worksheets, please link to this blog post (not the individual file download addresses as these may change when I change hosting).

This is part of our Chinese New Year Giveaway. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing.

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For my Saturday dose of cuteness, here’s a kitty in some packing peanuts  – the funniest bit is actually at the end, after the credits.