Intentional Blogging #2: Finding Blog Focus for Fully Housewifed
Joining Jeff Goins’ Intentional Blogging Challenge was indeed a challenge. Narrowing your blog focus so that you can build on a more “focused” audience is difficult because sometimes, you just want to be able to talk about anything you want to talk about.
I quit the first time but rejoined this year. I wasn’t ready about a lot of things when I joined last year, but I strongly feel that something needs to change in my blog. Jeff Goins is right. I need to shed off some things so that my blog has more focus.
I went over this challenge’s set of questions on Subject, Theme, and Objective, and here are the things that I came up with. For the subject, Jeff Goins said to try to answer the questions in one word each.
(Read: Intentional Blogging #1: Why do I blog?)
Here goes:
Subject
What am I passionate about?
Family
In what topic do I have expertise or a desire to learn?
More of desire to learn than expertise, it’s Independent Homeschooling
What could I write about for a year without running out of ideas or energy?
My children
Subject: Family matters
Theme
How can I break this subject down into its various components?
My struggles and victories as a wife to my husband – Marriage.
My struggles and victories as a mother to my children – Parenting and Homeschooling.
Our dynamics as a family : Our milestones, our joys and struggles, how we try to live out our faith- How we apply the Bible into our life as a family.
What do I want to concentrate on?
I want to narrow down to family matters.
Is there a specific manner in which I want to attack this issue? What will my writing “voice” be?
Relatable, intimate, me.
Theme: Family life
Objective
What do I want to accomplish with my writing?
I want to bless others with my blogs by opening our lives and my heart to other families.
What impression do I want to leave?
That I am imperfect but I have a perfect God who continues to work on me.
What’s my goal? How do I measure it?
My goal is to connect with other women all over the world and do my part in helping others apply the Bible in their lives.
I receive messages in my Facebook from my readers once in a while, asking me about home school. And I think that’s one way of how I would determine if I have reached my goal.
a. Organic traffic.
b. Genuine comments.
c. More social media and email engagement from readers.
Objective: To successfully connect, engage, and encourage other women from all over the world.
In summary…
Subject: Family matters.
Theme: Family life – Marriage, Parenting & Homeschooling, Applying the Bible to our daily lives.
Objective: To successfully connect to and engage other women from all over the world, and be a source of encouragement.
There you go. This has been my heart all along when I first thought about creating Fully Housewifed, but I allowed my fears and insecurities to stop me. I felt so unqualified to speak about these things and thought that my voice may not be heard above all the other women who write compellingly about the same topics.
But the Bible says, Perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4:18). I’m not perfect, that’s for sure. But if I rely on Jesus to be my strength in this journey and commit my blog to him, I think I’ll be more than okay.
Whoooo! This is terrifying, but with God’s grace, I will be able to move the mountains He asks me to move. Welcome to my life.
24 Comments
Melisa Sanchez
Oh, I love this post. kasi bago palang din ako nagbblog, and til now di ako maka move-on na blogger na ako, kasi I don’t know what to write, what to blog about, errrrr! But I know that God will give us knowledge and wisdom just trust Him 🙂
Charm Jumalon
I love that you want to leave an impression about you being imperfect but that God is perfect. I have started my blog two years ago but I’ve only been active these past months. I do wish to find my own niche soon. So far, I’ve been into beauty products and I am enjoying writing about those ^-^
May De Jesus-Palacpac
Maybe that’s your niche already. Ako kasi my blog became a huge bowl of chopsuey! Kung ano ano na lang.
Pearliza Paguio
I get what you mean. I also want to be able to blog about everything and it’s hard to narrow down our blog’s topic.
Gilian
I’ve been doing this lately. I’m trying to trim down my blog’s focus. =) Thanks for the links.
Kat Rodriguez
Great post. Ako naman, newbie blogger, focus ko mga diy, crafts, books, but because of reading other blogs, I’m tempted to blog about other stuff like our trips, staycations, food finds, but I always change my mind and stick to what I’m really passionate about.
May De Jesus-Palacpac
Good call, Mommy Kat!
MrsMartinez
This entry will be of a great help to others who are just starting their blogs. Thanks for sharing!
xoxo
MrsMartinez
Maan Laxa
The question that left a mark on me is the one about the topic we can write about without ever running out of ideas or energy. It made me think. Perhaps it’s about working at home or being a WAHM? This is such a nice exercise for every blogger!
May De Jesus-Palacpac
Oh it is! But it gets more and more challenging as you move on, haha!
mhaan.a-ds
I also started blogging recently, mga 4months palang so far Im passionate about beauty and parenting related topics. I also hope my blog help others especially those first time mommies like me.
Maria Teresa Figuerres
What a nice exercise for someone trying to have a more focused blog! Good luck on this endeavor!
sarah tirona
i need to this but its so hard because i am passionate about so many thingssssss grabeeee
Lique Dimayuga
I understand the part where you want to talk about a lot of things… but I guess that’s for the purpose of those who want to use their blog as more of a personal journal and not as merely getting hits 🙂 But that’s only my opinion… Recently I’ve found myself blogging more about homeschooling too 🙂 It’s such a fun thing to share and talk about 🙂
LaineyLovesLife
My blog is my repository of a lot of things happening in my life. It’s very personal in a way because I don’t think I can keep a lot of blogs with different passwords. 😀
I guess organization in how we arrange the topics and how we design the page layout. Imho
Good luck on the big change! 🙂 Whatever you do, as long as you put your heart in it, you will truly succeed. ❤︎
May De Jesus-Palacpac
That was also discussed by Jeff Goins in the workshop. 🙂
Peachy @ The Peach Kitchen
It’s nice that you’ve found your passion and what you’d like to focus on.. Syempre, me, I blog more about food 🙂
SJ Valdez
Your blog is one of my favorites, May, and you know that! Hihi. I’m so glad that you’ve found what you really want to write about. 🙂 Ako naman, my blog will still remain like a “huge bowl of chopseuy” because my life is like that! Hihi. I love you, mother!
May De Jesus-Palacpac
awww…I love you too
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Nicanics Lacanilao
You’ve got an inspirational blog. I love reading this post.
Charley's Mommy
AAAWWW…such an inspirational post. 🙂 Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Louisa
This is very helpful when you seem to feel like you’re not heading towards a certain direction with your blog. Sometimes I feel like my blog is all over the place.
May De Jesus-Palacpac
Me too!