The Top Tips For Finding Blogging Happiness

It’s tough, being a blogger. It’s hard because we have to commit to publishing a certain amount of material each week, keep ahead of key trends, and have faith that what we are doing is really helping us to enhance our business success and generate more revenue by supporting our customers. If you’re currently in a blogging rut, follow these tips to help you get back to blogging happiness and keep your online marketing strategy on track.

• Choose subjects to blog about that you feel passionate about and you’ll find easy to write about with knowledge and enthusiasm
• Build blogging in to your daily routine, in the same way as you brush your teeth each day or load the dishwasher – this makes it easier to stick to regular posts
• Invite people to comment on your posts regularly, so you know you’re on the right track with what you are writing about
• Keep up to date with all your feedback, answering comments and thanking people for responding to your posts
• If you ever feel disheartened about your blogging prowess, look back to the metrics from when you first started out and compare them with your current results
• Ask people you like and respect to guest blog to ease the burden of ongoing blog publishing, and introduce new perspectives and topics to your site
• Tweet your posts so more people can access what you have written and your message gets circulated for more comments, and new readers
• Try out new styles of communicating through your blog, like podcasting and video blogging (vlogging)
• Revamp your site for a quick fix of freshness, having fun with choosing new themes and layouts
• Consider outsourcing some of your writing from time to time if other pressures are getting in the way of your blog writing responsibilities
• Check out new technologies – plugins and widgets – designed to make your blogging life easier and enhance your metrics and benchmarking
• Gain access to a great image resource site so you can experiment with different types of graphics – I use http://sxc.hu or http://www.morguefile.com for royalty-free images
• Consider blogging a series – twelve posts all geared towards a single help topic, which you could then go on to produce as a product such as an e-book or download giveaway
• Learn new angles to blog about by researching your industry online, reading up on the latest developments, and sparking off a wealth of new ideas to write about
• Take time out. Everyone needs a break sometimes, so manage your postings, publish them in draft and stick them on a timer so you can go on vacation, have a long weekend or settle down to catch up on all that television you’ve been missing because of work!