In an ideal world, our blogging would be done at a leisurely pace out on the front porch or settled into our favorite writing chair. We’d be writing at our most inspired moments and we’d be channeling great writers of the past. We’d be writing about our passions and would become lost in our writing.
Back to Reality
Feeling inspired?Did you find any new ways to make your blogging life easier? Which ones? Do you have any tips for making blogging easier or more effective? Let us know in the comments!
Stacy Stevens
Thanks for the great tips! I was so lost on my blog for the first two years I barely did anything with it!
Keefyboy
There were some interesting points made in the article but I think that the one that stood out for me was using a calendar. It’s never occured to me to look at current and upcoming events to give a topical flavour to my posts and it’s something that I will definitely do in the future.
The blog posts document is a good idea as well, inspiration can come at any time and 99% of the time it gets forgotten with everything else going on. It could be that you carry a notebook around to jot down ideas, but even simpler, how many of our mobile phones have notepads on them, and who leaves home without their mobile phone?
Thanks for some great ideas to help with my blogging.
Martin Haworth
Here’s a quick one.
Write a Top Ten. Create a small paragraph for each of the Ten, Get into your WordPress blog.
Copy and paste the whole thing into one post. CUT the remaining 9 of the Top Ten. Complete the post and set it for now.
Paste the remaining 9 into the next blog post. Cut the remaining 8 and set the new blog post a week from today.
Repeat until all 10 posts are set over 10 weeks. If you are twitchy about the whole paste and cut thing, save the whole thing you wrote before you start out. 10 blog posts (cos they don’t all need to be 600 word masterpieces, now do they?
If you want to you can encourage people to come back with 1 out of 10 in the piece, but personally, I prefer to randomise the days I do this and just make ten posts on, say ‘Delegation’.
Bonus?
If you set your RSS feed into Twitterfeed.com (it’s free) each of your blog posts gets pulled into your twitter account as well. Ta-da!
Voila!
Takes about an hour.
Tom Treanor
Martin,
Great addition. I’ve done something similar. Here’s how I’ve done it. Write a list post and then pick the top 1-2 points and do other posts digging deeper into each of those. Yours provides more content! Thanks for stopping by and for providing the useful writing tip and also the Twitterfeed suggestion.
Denise Wakeman
Great tip, Martin. It’s an efficient investment of time for a lot of content. Thanks for stopping by…blog on!
Amy Hagerup
I’ve done all of these except for leveraging my network. I have a contact in mind that I could interview. Thanks for the idea!
Denise Wakeman
Amy, I’ve found that leveraging my network through guest posts is a great way to build relationships and add more value to my readers. Go for it and blog on!
Tom Treanor
Amy,
Thanks for your comment. The other great way to leverage the network quickly is to do a quick interview with an expert in an adjacent field that your audience would learn from.
Denise Wakeman
Appreciate your guest post, Tom. I especially like your bonus tip to pay attention to other blogs. I am frequently inspired by other bloggers and find that’s a great way to quickly generate ideas.
Tom Treanor
Thanks Denise for running the post on your blog. I always learn a lot from your blog so I’m glad to have been able to contribute to it again!