Blogging is a Cheap But Time Consuming Tool

If you’re anything like me, you realize the importance and value behind regular blogging; yet find it difficult to sit down long enough to produce valuable content. What makes it worse is I’m too much of a perfectionist so I spend twice as long on a single sentence, sometimes just throwing it all out in the end because it’s just not quite perfect.

Personally I find my most valuable content comes to me while I blow-drying my hair in the morning or in the late hours of the night when my head is flooded with thoughts. Sometimes I amaze myself with the quick wit and valuable insight I have at these moments, which is only to be lost the moment I sit down to write it out. I try to remind myself to keep my phone nearby to record voice notes…but when you’re running around in the morning after 5 children trying to get everyone ready and out the door on time…running around with a phone in your hand can sometimes lead to chaos. “Now where did I set my phone down?” or “Um, mommy.. I dropped your phone in the toilet…”

Needless to say, blogging is a cheap but time consuming tool. There’s the old saying time is money…so you may wonder if blogging is so time consuming what is the real value.

Blogging is very valuable if you remain consistent and provide content that is relative to your audience.

Here are a couple;

1) Learning – through comments, conversations and feedback you will learn new things. You will learn how to better connect with your audience and understand what they consider valuable.

2) Brings New Business – The more you blog about what is relevant to you audience, the more connections you’ll make.

Here are a few suggestions some of my friends and followers have provided, to keep your blog rollin’

• “… print out a calendar for the year including relevant holidays (national, international, your personal ones…birthdays, etc.) and start from there… website that shows different holidays and observances – http://www.brownielocks.com …”

• Create a list of topics that you can reference when you are stuck.

• Don’t be afraid to expand on to old material

• Blog about your thoughts and opinion on another’s blog (be sure to properly reference)

• Write as if you were talking to someone

In an effort to decrease the amount of time I spend thinking of things to write about, I have incorporated all these ideas into a weekly schedule that will be much easier to stick to. Of course then I have those fabulous ideas racing through my head…I may still pick up the phone to record those witty thoughts …if I can remember where I put it.

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