Three Practical Tips To Become A More Productive Blogger 10
If you are an online business owner, chances are you are either currently blogging, have blogged in the past, or are considering starting your own blog. When it comes down to researching your blog ideas, writing informative and quality content and sharing it with your peeps can really eat up much of your time. And if you post regularly as you should so, you end up wasting hours that you could use for other productive tasks that you could do for your online business. This is especially true if you are a sole entrepreneur and time is not abundant for you.
Here are my top 3 tips that will help you to be more effective and productive in your writing:
1. Create a content plan.
This is crucial; you need to actually write down your ideas in a form of a calendar. You can use any calendar you want; electronic or an actual calendar that you can hang on the wall. By doing this, you are sub-continently committing yourself to produce an article by a specific date.
You should have a plan for the next 6 months in advance.
You should also think about blog topics that you can immediately add to your calendar such as:
- Posts for holidays and special events – for example; how to lose weight before the holidays or stress release tips for back to school.
- Upcoming sales – if you know that you will run a sale on a specific date, you can schedule some blog posts reviewing your products and the benefits of it around that date.
2. Store your blog ideas.
Whenever you come up with an idea for a post, whether if you read an interesting article and you would like to comment on it or it’s a product review, make sure to add the idea for the article to a pre-made list. When you add it to your list, do not just write down the title of the post, add an outline for the post, describing the points you want to deliver in your article. If an online article inspired you, add the link to the article. This will save you a lot of time later on when you will try to figure out what was the topic you wanted to write about and how you came up with it.
A good idea is to have your list separated by months so if you know that on a specific month you do not have enough post ideas, you could add your new topic idea to it.
For example, let’s say that in September you have three ideas for blog posts and in October you have only one. When you come to save your new post idea, you can put it under the October list.
I use Evernote for this as it’s easy to use and most importantly, it synchronizes between my laptop and cell phone so whenever I have a new topic idea I can immediately store it on Evernote.
3. Set up a time for writing.
Starting a week ahead of your publishing date, pick up the time of the day when you are most productive, whether it’s in the morning after you had your coffee and went through your emails or the afternoon when you are done with your important daily tasks, make sure to add it in your calendar and set up an alarm to remind you to sit down and start working on your post.
Important; To avoid distractions in this hour (or as much as you need), a good idea is to leave your mail tabs closed, to make sure that you are logged out from your social media platforms and to leave your cell phone and any other devices out of the room and to close the door. This hour is dedicated for your blog writing only.
When you write, let your thoughts flow. Don’t worry about editing and proofreading the article while you are writing it; this will only distract you and drive you out of focus and will result in you spending more time writing the article. Once you’ve finished writing, you can go back and edit and tweak your first draft as needed.
By saving time on searching ideas and writing your post you can now put more time into sharing and marketing your articles and posts to your followers and peeps and start a relationship with them that will lead to more traffic and sales to your blog.
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