The Blog Traffic Experiment

Many people have suggested different ways on how to increase traffic to a blog. I am interested in finding out which is the most effective way of doing so.

I've decided to take the advice of listing my newly generated blog in a forum, bloggerforum, and I will monitor any increase in traffic to my blog by web stats and publish the results in a week's time.

Initiative

(When the Berlin wall was due to come down, a junior executive of a certain advertising agency came to me with an idea of pasting a poster on the other side of the wall.
I said, 'Good idea, but where are you going to get the money from?'
He said that he had some saved up.
I said,' How will you get it down?'
He said,' I'll get it done' He did. It made worldwide news.
Needless to say, he went off to start his own company.
All the best ones do.)
from Paul Arden's 'Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite'

I thought that was brilliant. So much to learn from it.

Goal Setting 2009

Someone recently reminded me of a study conducted in a Harvard MBA program, in which students were surveyed on whether they set goals and write them down clearly - 3 percent of the graduates had written goals; 13 percent set goals but did not write them own, and 84 percent of the students had no specific goals at all.

Ten years later, the 13 percent who set goals were found to be earning twice as much on average as compared to the 84 percent who had no goals. The 3 percent who set clear written goals were found to be earning 10 times as much as those who did not set goals.

Hence, I was inspired to commit to certain tasks, one of which is writing a blog. Strangely, recently I have become quite excited with investing, despite the fact that I'm going into a career in science, which led me to consider writing on the things that I have learnt.