Today I post the next part of the post “Time management tips for bloggers”. You can read the first part of the article here.

1. Do not bite off more than you can chew
The majority of bloggers passed through the period which I call “blogging euphoria” when the initial enthusiasm of having personal blog and from getting the readers’ attention blooms into a wish to keep several blogs devoted to subjects the author is interested in.

However, shortly after new blogs starting it becomes quite evident that keeping and promoting them is absolutely unfeasible due to simple time shortage. As a result, the quantity of posts grows less and less and even those added are hard to be effectively promoted. Finally, the blogs gradually decline, the quantity of subscribers and visitors decreases and the blogging stops accomplishing the initially assigned tasks.

Considering this, I recommend you to keep only one or two blogs as a ceiling. Mind: no living man all things can.

2. Write only about the things you are truly interested in
One of the basic elements of any time management system is motivation. The statement is true for the blogging as well where motivation is a key moment. You should be truly interested in the subject you write about, otherwise blogging transforms from WOW hobby into tedious job. If past experience is any guide, then work on the posts you are really interested in goes much faster and the result is much more effective as opposed to posts the subject of which does not enthuse you at all.

3. Take a post for a walk
On specifying the topic of your next post, go out for a small promenade to think it over. Do not forget to take your dictaphone to promptly record all the good ideas occurred to your mind during the walk.

4. Define your time allowance
Tight time limiting will help you to better focus on blogging. For such purposes personally I downloaded a small timer program, so when watching the speed at which time escapes I do not want to spend even ten minutes looking through fresh feeds.

5. Wait for inspiration moments
Blogging in itself is purely creative work, so the process of post writing heavily depends on inspiration. Thus, if you feel that you make too much effort writing this or that post element, it is a good idea to abstract from it and start writing the part you have a taste for. You may conveniently address the difficult part of the post a little bit later when you are ready for this.

Just remember the example of directors shooting films. They may start with climax postponing the first shots making for a year. The same thing is with blog.

6. Write posts in tandem with readers
There is no need to make the whole nine yards of you post by yourself. According to Rohit Bhargava “the optimal path is to start enlisting something in the post to provide readers with the opportunity to complete it by themselves. Such openness is not only a good time-saving tool but also a trigger of involving discussions with readers which motivates the latter to share their own views and ideas in your blog.”

7. Ten fingers typing method
Our mind works much quicker than our fingers, thus we write much slower than think. So, to write more efficiently it is absolutely necessary to master ten fingers typing method. There are a lot of specialized programs, textbooks and even training courses devoted to this method. After all, it is truly ridiculous for a real blogger to type with two fingers.

8. Guest posts
Your blog duties may be transferred to third parties just as your routine office work. Offer the blogger who writes on the subject closely related to yours, to publish a guest post for you. This business is mutually beneficial as you get free blog content and your colleague – traffic inflow to his blog. Besides, you can promote such posts together as you are both interested in making them popular.

9. Divide large posts into smaller ones
The discussion of some issues may hardly be captured into 1,500-2,000 symbols and to elaborate and instantiate it you will have to generally enlarge the post. But, first of all, the large post is very time-consuming and, what is more, not all the readers will be able to wade it through. As a perfect solution you can divide the large post into a series of smaller ones. It will provide you with the opportunity to write post “on deferred terms”. Besides, as a result, such smaller posts will be easily digestible for readers.

10. Write blogs during longstanding idle periods at work
Blogging at the workplace is somewhat controversial point. On the one hand, it allows you to fill the work-time gaps not with idle reading of funny stories, but with some fruitful task which is blogging. On the other hand, if you constantly jump from work to blogging during your day job, as a result you will not be able to do properly neither of the tasks. Therefore, I recommend you to write the blog only during longstanding idle periods at work.