What Do I Do All Day? [Problogger]

I was asked a funny question privately by (you might have guessed it) my wife. See, on Sunday, I went on a huge writing spree and basically wrote all of my posts for this blog for this week in one sitting. I don’t know if it’s a gift or what. It feels natural to me. But, when I really have something to say, I can sit down and pump out 4 or 5 blog posts in a matter of 3 hours. But, in telling my wife that, she asked:

So, what do you do the rest of the week?

I thanked her, yet again, for giving me so many ideas for blog posts. Because it is a fair question. If I call myself a blogger, then the logical conclusion is that I write for a living. You might think that writing my posts for the week would mean I’m done. Well, no.

And herein lies the REAL work and the REAL insight in how you can generate a full-time income by blogging. There is a LOT more to it than writing your blog posts. The blog is only a means to an end.

In looking at what I do other than writing blog posts, here is a list (not all inclusive):

• Answering emails
• Accounting tasks
• Consulting work (not all bloggers do this, but I used to be a paid PHP programmer. I still have one client left and I am in the process of offloading that client. I am writing a lot of documentation work for the next programmer.)
• Tracking statistics and making strategic decisions based on the stats
• Staying involved in social media (Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook) - involvement in the community is important for a problogger
• Reading & Commenting on other blogs
• Staying informed on strategies, trends, news
• Creating marketing campaigns for my products on my blogs
• Creating videos and premium content for PCMech University
• Site maintenance, optimization, fixes, design changes, etc.
• Recording my weekly radio news bytes
• Networking, business travel

The business of being a professional blogger is probably only about 10-15% actual blogging.

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