How A Workflow Keeps You Blogging
May 12, 2008
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It’s no secret that the time that I’ve spent posting here in the last little while has gone down considerably. Way back in November, I wrote a post detailing how a blogging workflow seemed to be keeping me on track and posting regularly. I’d like to revisit that post, and review how I’m following it
I’ve found that I haven’t been very diligent about keeping up with my blogging notebook, where I would write down ideas for new posts whenever they would come into my head, but now that I’m back to using a handheld device, things have been a little easier. If you don’t have a place to keep ideas for posts that might come up in the future, consider creating one. Maybe that post isn’t ready for writing at the moment, but the day will come when it’ll come in handy.
A regular posting schedule is something that you need to at least try to work in to your day. Quite a few bloggers have admitted to being surprised to find out just how much their readers depend on them to keep turning out posts. My initial posting rate on BloggingNotes was at least a post per day, but I can’t keep that pace up at this point in my life, so I think Monday, Wednesday and Friday is going to be it for the next little while.
Posting to your own blog first, especially if you’re trying to make money at it, is most important. Take care of the readers you already have first, and then go out and find blogs and forums to contribute to. This’ll help bring new readers in, but if you can’t keep the ones you currently have, bringing in new ones isn’t going to matter. You’ll be constantly chasing new readers, and not growing your readership at all.
Finally, have a look at sites outside of your niche. You never know where you’ll get the inspiration for a new post (or even a new blog). Just remember to write it down somewhere, or bookmark it. And if all you do is spend your time concentrating on a very narrow niche, yes, you’ll become an expert in that niche much more quickly, but you won’t have a wide range of experience to base anything on.
And that’s definitely not good.
Unrelated to the topic, but very related to the blog, there are some rather exciting plans in the very near future for BloggingNotes, which I can’t disclose at this time, but I’m hoping to have in place by the end of the month. When I’m ready to announce them, you’ll definitely find out about it here. (Or, you could submit guesses in the comments) 
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May 12th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Hi Rod,
I like the new WP theme
. Well, I totally agree with you on the workflow and regular schedule. I have to manage my time more wisely now as I’m juggling several online projects, my secular job, and my family life…to me, family life should come first and the other things are done just to support us.
Well, I haven’t been here for a while, so I thought I’d drop a line and say hi. I’ll be sure to check back to see your plans for Blogging Notes.
j.blu
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May 12th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Hi J. Thank you very much for the feedback. Glad you like the new theme
Like you, though, my family comes before all, so if something gets neglected, it’s going to be the blogging. Haven’t abandoned it, though - I enjoy it too much.
But I am starting to get the rhythm back. About time, too
May 12th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Hey Rod, you’re quite right. I too am constructing a blog posting and blog commenting schedule…back to back it helps bring in readers to each post I post :-).
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May 13th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Dennis,
It’s what made me feel that this was an easy niche for me to write in back when I started. Then things started to dry up a bit
But now I get the feeling that I’m back on track.