Published: Nov 29, 2007 - 04:17 pm
Story Found By: DavidWallace 2001 Days ago
Category: Social Media
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7 Comments
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Thanks David, for the submit!
It is a good article providing valuable advice to people like me who would "rather be blogging" but two things get in the way most of the time - real work and lack of inspiration. ;)
Although I dont like the teaser element involved in multi-part blog posts, thats a very good suggestion.
For small posts Ive started taking advantage of time stamp features. On Sunday for example, Ill attempt to get at least four posts created that auto publish throughout the week. This way I can enjoy pubcon and not stress about getting material published.
I also bulid blogs and people always ask me how to they get started blogging. Its great to know that I can point people to resources like this post. Thanks:)
Encouraged by your article. Depending on your purpose for blogging it may or may not be important (or essential) to post daily. On my AutoConversion I am pressured to post daily to demonstrate my product (RSS Marketing) and for search engine placement of my company site.Because of this I keep my articles concise, focused essentially on terminology and technique. I use a forum and Vox for more relational type blogging where I post only 2 or 3 times a month.But if you are blogging primarily for a voice and for networking, then fewer articles with deeper content is probably best.
I definitely run into this problem myself, and tend to do the short post as you suggested. I also write a lot on the weekends, when I am not so burdened with work. I run a company called Step Ahead Web Strategies, where we can help eliminate some of this burden for small or large business owners who want to blog. We help research topics and can at least provide subject matter for your blog to save you time on the research end. We can also fill in and occasionally write a post for you and/or serve as an editor for your postings. Weve found this to be the biggest obstacle of blogging: the amount of time required and the need for it to be updated regularly. So were trying to offer some help to "nonprofessional" bloggers so they can keep on keepin on!Lyn Mettler