Carol Hess

Clicker’s Remorse



Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2011

by Carol Hess
Tame the Writing Monster

Have you ever clicked on something and regretted it before you even finished clicking?  That’s what I call clicker’s remorse.

A couple of weeks ago I clicked on a cute little button that cheerfully ordered me to join a blog challenge. In a spontaneous fit of this-will-be-good-for-me, I obeyed the cute little button’s order.

And then I had just as spontaneous a fit of what-the-heck-did-I-just-do-to-myself.  Clicker’s remorse.  But it was too late and I was committed.

Now one of the things I jump up on my soapbox about constantly is you’ve got to write smarter, not harder.  That means everything you write for your business has to make business sense.  If it doesn’t do anything for your business, then don’t write it.  Spend your time coaching instead.

So, if I was going to practice what I preach, then I had to look at whether participating in the blog challenge made sense.  And it did for several reasons:

1. It increases traffic to my blog.
2. It increases my visibility.
3. It puts me in contact with potential clients.
4. It increases my list.

Those were four solid reasons that took away my clicker’s remorse in a heartbeat.

Now I just had to figure out what to blog about.  I wanted to help my blog readers solve a significant problem.  A problem that was holding them back from creating success in their businesses.  A problem that was keeping them up at night.  A problem that anyone who stumbled upon my blog could identify with.

So I thought and I thought and I thought.  I had it!  But it was too big a topic to handle by myself.  So I put out an SOSto some friends of mine – great coaches I think are very wise people.  And just about every single one of them agreed to contribute a blog post about the topic I had chosen.

Are you waiting for me to tell you what we blogged about? Sorry.  You have to go to my blog to find out!  Yeah, I know that’s a little obnoxious, but I think you’ll forgive me once you see what the blog is about.

Carol Hess (www.tamethewritingmonster.com), the Coach’s Writing Partner, shows coaches how to harness the power of writing to gain clients, credibility, and confidence. She shows you how to write smarter, not harder for the coach who wants to write less, stress less, and coach more. Get Carol’s new report, “15 Foolproof Waysto Bust Through Writer’s Block,” at http://www.tamethewritingmonster.com.
This Article has been viewed 167 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
No comments yet.
We want your comments! If you can read this, you don't have javascript enabled, so you can't use this comment system. Please enable javascript.