NaNoWriMo for Marketers?

November is National Novel Writer’s Month – it’s the month that authors or would be novelists are challenged to write 50,000 words on their novel.

For a novelist that is a large word count and a very lofty goal.  Writing every day, it comes out to about 1700 words a day.

As a novelist looking at that daily word count, I cringe and hide in the corner.  Am I participating in NaNoWriMo this year?  Nope!

For an internet marketer 50,000 words a month equates to about 80-120 articles/blog posts/social marketing and networking posts, blog comments, reports, sales letters, emails and so on… each averaging between 400 and 600 words.

Do you presently write 50,000 words for your business?

If not, consider setting yourself a goal – we’ll call it NaIMWriMo – National Internet Marketer Writer’s Month.  Keeping the same 50,000 word count goal that means:

30 Blog posts (600 words per post) – 18000

20 Articles (600 words per article) – 12000

3 ten page reports (400 words per page) – 12000

That leaves 8000 words for email messages, blog and forum comments, tweets at Twitter and so on.  Easily accomplished, right?

So how do you track all this content – consider saving the month’s content in a single NaIMWriMo folder.  That way you can see at a glance how many articles, reports and emails etc..you have written and how close you are to your goal.

Reaching your goal – the celebration

Attaining any lofty goal deserves a lofty reward – right?  If you’ve written 50,000 words then you certainly deserve a reward!

Now for internet marketers much of the reward will be in the form of additional profits.  However if you like to up the ante, consider giving yourself much needed time off – even a day or two just to sit back and enjoy life.  Go to the movies.  Buy those shoes you adore but really have no place to wear.  Do something fun!

Oh, and don’t forget to make a plan to get all that new content online and available to your prospects and customers!

So…is NaIMWriMo for you?  If so, get busy it’s already Nov 10th!

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