5 Time Management Tricks For Bloggers

Blogging is a rather intense business. Certainly not something where you can “set it and forget it”. So, how can you take maximum use of your time and still get the most output?

If you do things correctly, then only a small percentage of your time should be used actually producing blog posts. The business of blogging is a LOT more than publishing posts. If you spend all your available time writing posts, then you’re not going to get to anything else.

Here are a few quick tips that might help you become more efficient:

1. Write in batches. As I’ve said before, I sit down and write all my posts for this blog in one sitting. Every week. In fact, as I am writing this very post, I’m sitting in a plane on my way back home to Tampa. I’ll have all my posts written within an hour. If you sit and hammer out 4 or 5 posts at once, then you are better able to focus on other tasks for the remainder of your week.
2. Maintain an idea file. Whenever you think of a new post idea, put it into an idea file. If you’re already working on something else, don’t just interrupt everything and write the post. Just put the idea into a file. Then, when you sit down to do you batch writing (see prior tip), yank out your idea file and go.
3. Don’t blow your wad too quickly. Have an idea for a post? Have a concept you really want to share with your readers? You might be able to turn that into multiple posts. Don’t feel compelled to throw everything into one long post. People’s attention spans are short anyway, so feel free to break it up. More posts per unit of time.
4. Work from a plan. It is easy for bloggers to work like a feather in the wind. Going wherever the spirit moves them. This is very counter-productive. Since this blog is about blogging as a business, then let’s start treating your time as valuable. Sit down and create a weekly plan for your blog. Be sure to include time for writing posts, for marketing and promotion, for social media, for product creation – everything. Then, stick to your schedule.
5. Work in batches. This is a concept I can elaborate more on in a full post, because it is a cool topic. But, the idea is that we all suffer from information overload and that it can serve as a major interruption when trying to work. So, start to structure your schedule so that you work on one task with your FULL attention and no distractions for a period of 50 minutes. Then, the remaining 10 minutes of the hour you can do whatever you want. During the 50 minutes, you remove all distractions from your environment. This includes the phone, email, social media – EVERYTHING. Full, uninterrupted attention for 50 minutes.

Now, go get something done.

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