Writing a blog is both incredibly rewarding and extremely exhausting. The need to constantly produce content that adds value to a website is no easy feat. When you write a post that you know will resonate, and potentially blow people’s minds, it’s a great high. But when you are on your couch at 11:45pm trying to get a post out before you fall asleep sitting up, it’s a low low.
So how do we avoid the burnout? I am going to give you the usual tricks, but sometimes I just don’t have the time or the energy to follow them all. …
Have you heard the news? Nobody writes anymore! Grammar is going down the tubes! We might as well get rid of commas and apostrophes forever because nobody is going to know how to use them anyway.
This post was originally going to be titled: Writing From Your Reader’s Perspective. But I decided that just didn’t encompass all I was trying to say.
I have been very busy lately with a big project. And like any good small business owner, my clients’ needs always come before my own. Which means the hours I used to spend on Facebook, Twitter, and other blogs have shrunk down. Way down. I now give myself thirty minutes to promote my own blog everyday. I honestly feel like I could spend 3 hours a day, and some days I have, but it’s no longer in the cards. So here is what I do to maximize my thirty minutes.
I have worked with many companies who are taking the time out of their busy schedules to blog. They all tell me they do it for different reasons. One is for marketing, another for SEO, another because they like to write, and so on. But when I sit down and read these blogs, I understand they all blog for the same reason: because they are an expert in their field.