Plan your Blog, Blog your Plan
Same theory, different words. For years I have listened to business consultants say “Plan your work, work your plan”. A blog is no different. You just have to decide what it is you want to accomplish. Some bloggers just want people reading their blog, others want to make money blogging. Whatever the goal, managing your resources is a valuable key.
I work with a few bloggers very closely, and I see and hear the same thing often. “I can’t keep up”. The interesting part is that this same statement comes from a variety of blogger types.
I work a full time job, 50-55 hours a week, I own at least 60 domain names, and have 10+ blogs and websites that I am working.If you have more than one site, you need to manage your time and resources. Here are a few things I do that help me keep it all rolling.
- Delegate – I have a couple of people writing for me. They get paid from the blogs that they write on.
- Trade – I have traded skills with others. Garry Conn is a good example. He did the header graphic on this site, and I did some PHP programming for him.
- Layout – It starts with my browser, when I start up, I have 9 tabs loaded as my home page. My Yahoo, Google, Gmail, Adsense, Analytics, Google Reader, Pandora, Google Docs and Google Trends. From this point I can see what is going on with my sites, and what is going on with others.
- Glance first – Each time I sit down to work I glance at each tab to get an overview. This means I spend maybe 1 or 2 minutes on a tab. I do not answer emails at this point, or dig through stats. From here I can go back and work on what looked to be the most critical items.
- Scheduled posting – I use WordPress and the scheduling has saved me a lot of time. An added benefit to the scheduling is releasing a post to publish early in the morning so by the time traffic is rolling my posts are already in the Blogsearch and at least the home page has been Indexed.
With this plan of attack I have been able to keep my full time job and get my online income to go from $25 to $2000 a month. And don’t kid yourself, luck plays a part in all of this too. And I have been lucky at times over the last couple years. But if you want to take advantage of luck, you have to be prepared. Are you prepared?
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Written by: David Cooley - August 14th, 2007
Posted in ProgrammingTags: Adsense, Analytics, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Trends, Pandora, PHP, Wordpress, Yahoo
Great post David. I am not stranger to systems, but my challenge has always been follow through on successful system I put in place. In my experience, I can hold people accountable to systems and standards, but when it comes to managing myself… LOL… completely different ball game!
hi i enjoyed the read
Garry,
I understand. Follow through is always harder than the planning.
If you are a good manager, maybe you need to find some people who are good at the tasks, and you could work together.
I just started a wordpress blog…I liked the tip about scheduling with that. I am still really new so I will have to go check that feature out…could come in really handy!
Awesome idea…thanks a bunch!
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