Top 10 Tips To Manage Work And Blogging

Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Vivek Krishnan in Blog Tips

This post on 10 Tips To Manage Work and Blogging is written by James Adams. He writes about technology for an online store specialising in ink cartridges called Cartridge Save. You can read more of his posts on his blog.

It is indeed difficult to manage your work and blogging. Today the internet is swamped with full-time working professionals who are also into part-time blogging to earn some residual income. All that is well, but, between managing a work schedule and blogging part time, many feel that there is no time left in the day.

How do you add a blog to all of the other things that need to be done?

Here are top 10 tips which will help you manage your work and blogging:

1. Write during your body-cycle: Pick a time before or after work that you can devote to writing your blog. Some writers are extremely skilled in the morning after they have just woken up. Others do it well at night after they have wound down from work. Find your time and write within it. Suiting the work hours with your body clock will improve your blogging efficiency.

2. Make a regular schedule for your blogging: Writing a coherent 500 word post every day is difficult, but you do not have to post every single day. You can write every other day or twice a week and still keep your readers happy. Regularity is more important than frequency.

3. Focus: After you have found your writing time, use it to type as fast as you possibly can. Take the time to follow the ideas that you have had during the week. Write down your opinions of the restaurant that you were at last. Do not let the distractions of daily life get in the way of your writing.

4. Alternate activities: As you know, there are other activities that have to be done to maintain a successful blog. If you are writing your blog every other day, set up an alternating schedule of editing and posting. Write the post on the first day, edit and publish it the day after. This will keep your work fresh.

5. Keep a journal of ideas: Keep a pen and small memo pad with you at all times so you can capture events that would be great for blog posts. Refer back to your scratchpad and you should never lack for ideas.

6. Be Flexible: If you spend an hour a day on blogging, it doesn’t necessarily matter which hour out of the day that you use for it. Keep yourself limited to an hour, but don’t beat yourself up if that hour happens earlier or later than normal.

7. Write multiple posts when you can: There are some days that the words take a prybar to come out. There are other days that you cannot stop your fingers. You do not have to immediately publish a post after you write it. Many bloggers keep a small library of unpublished posts on hand so they have something to say when they’re running low on inspiration.

8. Content drip: If you have a schedule of every other day and you’re writing multiple posts, you can set your blogging software to post it at your whim. Nobody needs to know that you wrote it a week or two ago. This is where post drafts can become an asset for you.

9. Write about the easy stuff: You probably want your blog to take as little time to write as possible. If you are writing one thing and another subject is screaming to be written about, write about that. Passion makes the process of writing faster.

10. Love what you do: Writing should be fun. Your time at the keyboard should be a mad rush to get everything that you can onto the screen rather than an unbearable slog. Change what you’re writing about if you’re not happy.

Writing a successful blog should be satisfying. Sharing your passions with the world is one of the greatest gifts that you can give. With some effective time management, you can maintain it all- your profession, your blog and the world around you. And who knows, some day you may become a full-time six figure blogger. Best of Luck with that.

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