One of my goals for my business blog is to have over 200 subscribed readers (a subscribed reader is someone who reads your blog through an RSS feed. You can do this by clicking on the orange and white button on the right side of this blog.)

Unfortunately, I’m never going to make it to 200 daily readers unless I get The New Business Blog out there, and that is going to require a lot of leg work.

The other day while researching the subject of driving traffic to my business blog, I came across RSSTop55, a site that lists close to 170 blog directories you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. (I actually mentioned this subject in a previous blog, but didn’t go much in depth).

Last night I was able to submit The New Business Blog to 50 additional blog directories. While it was time consuming and redundant, it definitely helped my stats.

This morning when I woke up, I checked my Feedburner stats and saw that the number of subscribed readers had jumped from 12 to 25. Granted this isn’t anywhere near my goal, but it’s a start.

I guess the moral of the story is, much like starting a business, growing your site or blog is a something that takes time; you have to be willing to put in a lot of work and have a little bit of patience (and luck).

Hopefully this will be good training for when In My Memories is finally launched.