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I Published Daily for a Full Year: Here are the Results
And what I discovered
Publishing daily for a full year will solve all your business problems.
Urged on by this lofty promise, on July 28, 2020, I set out to create and publish new blog posts daily for a full year.
Although I was skeptical of the promise itself, when I was presented with the challenge, it was almost as if I was waiting for the permission to do it. I got excited and got started as soon as I could.
It’s now a year later, and I can honestly say I barely recognize myself. But I will get to that. Let’s begin with the key details.
Where I Published
I’m a big believer in publishing on platforms I own.
Though you can get more views on trending social media and publishing platforms, the tradeoff is that the traffic you earn for your website is yours to keep, and you can enjoy the long-term benefits of SEO. Not to mention — you mitigate against the risk of changes to said platforms.
Nevertheless, I was encouraged to publish on Medium. And although over the course of the last year I published on my own blog, News Break, Tealfeed, Steemit, and Music Entrepreneur HQ, most posts were ultimately imported onto Medium. I even shared a few dozen unique pieces on Medium.
Some days I published more than once, as I did not count my professional writing duties or podcasting efforts as publishing. Sometimes, I doubled up with multiple platforms, and at other times, I published three or four times in a day.
I did all this while working as founder and CEO of Music Entrepreneur HQ, staff writer for Music Industry How To, curator-host for The Indie YYC, and as a freelancing web and graphic designer, video editor, and ghostwriter.
In summary, I published on:
- My blog
- Medium
- Music Entrepreneur HQ
- News Break
- Tealfeed
- Steemit
What I Published
I recently shared on the evolution of my publishing efforts. I would encourage you to refer to that post if you’d…
