I am blogging for the past 3 years now and I am going to be honest with you, I am a really bad blogger, though now I have become much more managed and smoe what productive as compared to early days. So if you are looking to be a better productive blogger, here are some tips from my success and failures -

1. Most of the people start blogging with lot of passion and stop it after few months because they don’t feel like or had nothing to write about, so here is my tip, blog daily, it doesn’t matter you have nothing to write or not feeling like, write about anything like the hair you found in your food and its alrigth if the posts are only 4-5 lines. Once you start blogging daily, it will become part of your daily routine.

2. Put a time limit on your writing, I mean don’t stare at your blogging software or wordpress new post screen for 15 minutes before you really starts writing, just put a daily limit of 10 minutes that you will not spend more then 10 minutes writing that post. Of course, if you are in the flow, you can keep on writing for more than that too but personally I have seen any post which you are writing on your own should not take more than 10-15 minutes to be written. Posts which need reference from other sources like my last post often takes 30 minutes though.

3. Do not put too much effort in reading the post over and over again to look for grammar errors and continuity flow. they are important but not that much that you spend lot of time on it. Wordpress has default spell checker which you can use once you finish a post and then hit publish immediately. Remember pareto’s 80-20 principle, 80% of your blog post will get done in 20% of your time, sometimes trying to achieve perfection is not necessary.

4. If you want to be Professional Blogger, you need to be disciplined. Lot of people only write when “they” feel like but that is not acceptable if you are looking to be full time blogger. Ideally you want to publish one post immediately as soon as you open your laptop/computer to make you feel good. Then look at your feeds to get more content and info and you can write another post. I have seen most of the pro bloggers who are writing full time finishes their blogging by afternoon and then starts doing other stuff like interacting with other bloggers, replying to comments, getting to Instant messengers, replying to mails etc.

5. Do not imitate anyone, be yourself, believe me, its worth it. Find your own style of writing, find your own crowd and niche and find your own followers, it is difficult be the return you will get will be enormous.

6. And the last tip, do not blog for money because you won’t make it (atleast not for first few months). Infact all your financial goals based on your blogging will never come true. Blog because you are passionate about it and write on those things which you want to share with others.

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