Category — Blogging

Perseverance is something that a lot of people talk about. I was reminded about how important this was last week. I participated in the first hundred articles challenge on ezine articles and was unsuccessful the first time I tried. I succeeded in completing the challenge the second time I participated. That perseverance has resulted in paid freelance opportunities because whenever anyone wants to see a writing sample, I just point them to the articles that I’ve previously published on ezinearticles. I would not have that body of work if I didn’t stick to my guns and complete the goal that I set out to do. I will admit that I have gotten off schedule in my quest to post every day this month. I had a busier than normal weekend last weekend, but that did not stop me from posting today. I just have to remember to post my weekend posts in advance. Moral of this story: Keep going even when things don’t go exactly as you have planned.

I’m trying to blog everyday as part of a challenge issued by a marketer affectionately known as Dr. Mani. He challenged his subscribers to blog everyday. I’ve learned that this is a hard task. I’ve got a toddler and an erratic work schedule at my regular job. That makes it tough for me to schedule a set time to blog. Like right now, I’m so sleepy I’m about to fall asleep while typing this, but it is important to me to get back into my rhythm of publishing regularly (I slid into publishing whenever I felt like it after my daughter was born). So even though I’m sleepy, I have decided to write about something. Accountability is also important. If I hadn’t promised to Dr. Mani that I would blog everyday it would be really easy for me to just eat my dinner, play with my daughter and go to bed. So that’s my post for today. I know it’s not long. I’ll try to do better later in the week. *yawn* Good night.

Okay a blogging rant is approaching. Now I don’t profess to know that much about getting comments. It’s not exactly like I have the most comments in the world on this blog and I’m cool with that. However, I know some bloggers moan and groan about not getting comments, but then you go to their blog and they haven’t posted anything new in like a month. Well duh. If you don’t have any new content, what is there for me to comment on? I’m not saying that you have to post everyday, but if you post more, you will give me more stuff to comment on.

If you blog long enough this can happen to you eventually. You’ll be blogging according to your schedule then something will happen to cause you to get off schedule. Maybe you get sick or one of your family members gets sick. You get off schedule because you have to spend more time taking care of your loved one than on your blog. So what do you do? Do you throw your hands up in the air and quit

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One thing that has been a lifesaver for me this past year was having an editorial calendar in place. It was especially helpful during the time when I outsourced some of the posting.  I am going to share a link with you to a free blogging calendar. It’s a pdf file so you may want to print it out and put it in a binder so you can make notes as the year goes on.

Here’s the link: http://blogenergizer.com/download-blogging-calendar/

Enjoy your holiday, however you celebrate it.

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