You need organization to make money blogging
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your blogging? These past few weeks, I’ve completely lost the plot in my quest to make money online. I took on far more than I could realistically handle. It wasn’t just that – the way I was approaching my blogging was all wrong. I was totally disorganized. So, what did I do about it? First things first, I stopped blogging for a whole day. I didn’t update any of my blogs yesterday and I took a step back.
Straight away I could see how muddle my blogging was. Today, I opened up an Excel file and listed all the blogs I have going at the moment. I put them in order of priority and decided which ones were worth keeping and which ones needed to be canned because they were wasting my time. Straight away, there was a few hours of my week freed up.
Next thing I did was to compile all the tasks that I need to do with regards to my blogs. These tasks ranged from claiming a blog on Technorati and setting up Feedburner, to tidying up a theme and putting ads on a blog. I also set out how many times I need to update each of the blogs I chose to keep.
What it means is that I have a lot of tasks to complete, but I can at least visualize them and work through them methodically. Within three months, I should be an unstoppable blogging machine.
For anyone out there who is feeling overwhelmed by the whole process of blogging regularly, my advice would be to stop what you’re doing and throw all your ideas down on paper (or an Excel file). Look at what’s cool and what sucks; weed out all the unnecessary clutter that is wasting you valuable hours every week. That way, you can concentrate on the things that matter and start to really make money online.
For this blog, I decided to give each day a theme, kind of like in a magazine. Although there is room for me to deviate from this theme, every week World of Angel will loosely follow this pattern:
- Monday feature
- Tuesday gossip from around the blogs
- Wednesday product review or news
- Thursday writing tips
- Friday update on my progress
- Saturday random topic
- Sunday links
This new sense of direction is uplifting to say the least. Try it for yourself.
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2 Responses to “You need organization to make money blogging”
That’s the Zen Habits way, and it seems to work for Leo. I hope it works out for you too
I briefly considered it, but I honestly don’t want to feel committed to updating the blog every day. Three to five times per week, when I feel like I really have something I want to write about, is just fine for me.
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