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3 Tips to Blog Like a Manic and Still Have a Life

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Blogging is a fantastic way to keep in touch with your prospects and customers. So why do so many marketers fail to blog regularly when the benefits of doing so are so huge?

Well, one reason is that when you’re knee deep in a pile of gritty tasks it can be hard to make the time to be creative on your blog. I know what that’s like and I’ve been in that spot once too often.

Want to know how to blog more regularly and still save time? Then check out the 3 tips below….

1. Create a Google Notebook account and record ideas during the week

Often the hardest part of regular blogging is actually coming up with the ideas for your posts. And when you’re super busy it can be double hard to be creative.

Open up a free Google Notebook account, and download the addon for Firefox. Now whenever you’re surfing and you come across something that gives you a great idea for a blog post you can right click, and then select ‘Note this’.

Within Google Notebook I have an ideas book, and as soon as an idea hits I make sure that it gets documented in here pronto.

At the end of the week when I’m writing my blog posts I just dip into the juicy ideas book, and I find that I’ve got loads of different things to write about.

And there’s another big benefit too. How often do you have a great idea while surfing and think to yourself that you MUST remember it? Let me tell you that it’s not easy to relax when you have a dozen ideas whirling around your head that you have to remember.

Recording your ideas in this way helps you ‘let go’ of them, and you’ll find you can relax more too.

2. Write first edit second

I’ve been saying this since I wrote Auction Profits Unleashed, so I guess it doesn’t hurt to say it again. The fastest way to write any kind of content is to write it all down first, and then to edit it second.

Don’t fall into the habbit of editing as you write. You’ll be less productive as a result, and the editing process will make you fearful of making mistakes.

Simply write your post in its entirety, and then edit later. Trust me when I say you’ll be able to create more blog posts faster.

3. Use the Wordpress Timestamp function

If you want to get productive at anything you do then ‘batch up’ the tasks. Why waste time logging in and out of Wordpress every day to make your posts when you could batch up tasks and do them all at once?

Think how much time you could save if you were to only have to login to Wordpress once because you’d scheduled all your posts in advance.

Write your posts on a set day each week, and then schedule them using the built in ‘Post Timestamp’ function and you’ll be able to blog more with less time.

And that’s it!

If you want to keep in touch with your prospects and your customers then blogging is an excellent way to do just that. Use the 3 tips above today to blog like a manic while still having a life…

Do you think these tips will work for you? Do you have any ideas of your own? Well let me know in the comments below….as always I’d love to hear from you!

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Introducing The Wordpress Post Timestamp Feature

Do you currently run a blog using Wordpress? If not why not? You really should start blogging today.

If you do use Wordpress then I want to ask if you’ve started using the Post Timestamp feature.

It’s a cracking little piece of kit that’s built into your Wordpress admin panel…and once you start using it you’ll wonder how you lived without it.

So what does it do?

Basically it allows you to schedule posts and have them appear in the future. No longer do you have to be the one pushing the ‘publish’ button as your posts go live, and instead you could be doing something much more fun.

And the best part is that it’s a complete breeze to set up too.

Do you see the picture at the top of this post?

Well when you write your next post in Wordpress you’ll notice this next to the place where you type your entry. It’s worth noting that you might find this in a different spot depending on which version of Wordpress you’re using.

To make your posts appear in the future simply tick the ‘edit timestamp’ function, and then select the date and time when you want your post to appear.

Then click ‘publish’ and that’s it!

As if by magic your post will appear while you’re off galivanting and having fun.

And just to show that I’m getting into the swing of things, you didn’t think I’d post about this topic while I’m sitting at my PC did you? Cripes no!

In fact I’m out of the house having fun at the very moment this puppy goes live.

The first person to guess EXACTLY where I am and what I’m doing wins a special prize.

(HINT: This post went live at 11:15am on Sunday 22 March and I’ve dropped a few clues over the past few days what I might be doing)

Post your guesses below and the first person to get it exactly right wins a prize. You might want to note that I won’t actually be around to publish the comments until I get back.

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