Comments on: 10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers

By: Sandipan@Inkjam

Sandipan@Inkjam — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:07:39 +0000

Productivity is essential in every walk of life. I could not agree more with the following lines of yours :-
” The tough part is in being dedicated enough to change our bad habits and be productive, rather than simply reading about it.”

By: Danielle Lynn

Danielle Lynn — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:54:10 +0000

Excellent tips. My two favorite? Read your inbox only twice a day (I’m guilty of constantly checking my mail via blackberry) and write more than you publish. Yes, there are days that I have nothing to say to the world, and wish I had taken the time to write out some of my more creative thoughts earlier on.

By: Martha at A Sense of Humor is Essential

Martha at A Sense of Humor is Essential — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:50:59 +0000

Excellent tips to balance creativity and productivity. Visiting from SITS and thank you for sharing this helpful list. Now off to write some posts!

By: E. Sheppard

E. Sheppard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:27:07 +0000

Great ideas. I especially like the idea of writing down post ideas before you tackle the writing. AND I like the idea of writing more than you post, because I am trying to write an ebook or novel. Blogging CAN take all a writer’s attention sometimes. Thanks for the posting.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:41 +0000

I found this article “productivity Tips For Bloggers” to be very useful as I found many Cpyblogger articles to be useful. I think the site is fabulous. I have found that setting up all my RSS Feeds on an igoogle page has been the answer to my feed issue as I have approximately 200 feeds due the the fields that I am involved in and it helps to have them all on the igoogle page. I would suggest trying this for others that have a lot of feeds that they may want updated all on one page. It has been thus far the answer to that issue for me.

Thank you for another fantastic article and with the courses I am currently taking on Journalism keepin in mind that the reader is the most important issue to remember when writing anything at all.

Have a great New Year.

Debbie

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:16:08 +0000

“The tough part is in being dedicated enough to change our bad habits and be productive, rather than simply reading about it.”

How true this is. I am a dedicated reader and thinker of various topics, of which productivity is one.
This post definitely helped me plan out a road map for myself and my blogging.
Thanks!

By: Seo Tips

Seo Tips — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:57:45 +0000

Wow thanks for the blog tips, I really need to get productive with my blogging and stay away from twitter 🙂

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:03:27 +0000

I should turn off both email & Twitter notifiers. ^^ I do subscribe to quite a few blogs, it’s hard to cancel them really. Will at least browse through the major ones before I move on. And also, eliminating the number of my ‘unread’ emails as frequent as I could.. a little hard, but I’ll be thankful about it on the next day.

A whole lot of different story if you’re receiving 500++ emails per day.. that is..

By: BLOGBOOZE

BLOGBOOZE — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:45:03 +0000

Nice post Daniel! Well next time i have to think twice before doing anything online. especially twitter & facebook.

By: Web designer

Web designer — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:22:48 +0000

On eof the quite obvious but less practiced principles is to spend less time procastinating or planning and more time implementing. As a blog owner myself, one of my resolutions in 2009 is to focus more on the many different methods or strategies I have devised over the last year but for some reason not had the time to implement.

By: raheelocelot

raheelocelot — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:07:20 +0000

A very information and action based post. Very beneficial, especially for new comers like myself.

By: odtaa

odtaa — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:15:29 +0000

As an extension of point 10. Most blog writers have similar types of posts, for example a guy I’m helping develop a blog with writes car reviews and describes gadgets,

With both of those we’ve developed a standard framework, which he cuts and pastes at the start of his posting,

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:49:26 +0000

Perhaps something to add to #8… Write down your ideas when they come to you. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought of something wonderful to write about, only to end up forgetting it later because I wasn’t at the computer at the time and neglected to make note of it somewhere. Oops. 🙁

By: doez

doez — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:01:45 +0000

thank’s

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:01:53 +0000

Great article something i have started to do, priotising my time has never been one of my strong points and i have started to implement some of your strategies, mainly the write more than you need tactic and writing a to do list.

By: The Gambling Blog

The Gambling Blog — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:42 +0000

This is one thing that I’ve always thought about, but never really considered if ya get me…

Always thinking about writing/blogging or whatever, but if I had thought about it in advance, I would probably get the posts done much quicker, and the posts themselves would probably be of a higher quality.

The emails point is a good one generally, should check them every hour instead of every 5 mins. Depends what your job is I guess.

By: pillsexpress.org

pillsexpress.org — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:18:05 +0000

oh! very hard for me

By: Monsenior

Monsenior — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:02:40 +0000

By: Nick - road2blogging

Nick - road2blogging — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:20:14 +0000

A great post and some I’ll have to remember!

really like write more than you publish. Guess this is a good way to have some backup posts ‘just in case’. Think I’m going to start most of these right away too, thanks.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:28:05 +0000

I highly recommend any new bloggers to practice these productivity tips.

By: Bob Brancato

Bob Brancato — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:52:22 +0000

Great tips for a beginner like me. Now I’ll stop checking FeedBurner just to make sure it’s working!

Regards.

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:48:14 +0000

All excellent points. Lately I’ve been using Google Reader a lot more and it’s cut down on checking sites that haven’t been updated. I think #1 and #4 are most important, because they give you a little wiggle room when you’re crunched for time and free you up to be creative when you’re feeling creative without having to produce a publishable post when you’re not.

I recently posted on a simpple topic here.

By: Cremation Guy

Cremation Guy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:00:45 +0000

Great advice, have serval children, so these tips are truly appreciated

By: INconstantIN

INconstantIN — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:04:51 +0000

There are certain periods when I have to use a dial-up connection while visiting my parents. Is is then that I write my best posts, away from any disturbing elements of the vivid online life.

By: Proinvestorsblog

Proinvestorsblog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:02:37 +0000

This was one of the most informative blogs I have read in weeks, and full of great information that I plan on putting to action ASAP

By: work from home blog

work from home blog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:57:13 +0000

“Write more than you publish” is nice tip.

By: Cecile

Cecile — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:44:47 +0000

Great tips! Thanks!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:23:17 +0000

Thank you for the great post! Most of your tips can apply to general day-to-day productivity in the work place and they are a great reminder.

By: engtech @ internet duct tape

engtech @ internet duct tape — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:55:20 +0000

blog start page is still my biggest productivity tip… one click to see everything related to blog maintenance:

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:39:50 +0000

Skelly – these are great tips. I check my email as little as possible. But, I think my biggest downfall is writing to many partly finished posts.

Although they can be useful, I really should be trying to keep at least a couple of completed ones on stand-by for those times when I’m just too busy.

I would love to be in the position of having a heap of posts lined up for vacations, illness etc – if you have any great tips on how to achieve this please?

By: Stoney deGeyter

Stoney deGeyter — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:36:16 +0000

These are great tips and I FULLY agree. As a business owner I’m always aware of not just my own productivity but those of my team. With so much social media the daily distractions are endless. You really have to concentrate on organization and learning how to stay focused on certain tasks.

By: TheBloggerTips

TheBloggerTips — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:44:50 +0000

Daniel,
Useful tips for bloggers. Btw, can you share how you allocate your time to post more than one blog? Do you mind? Or you have your dedicate team to brainstorm for the new post ideas? Understand most of the bloggers post by timestamp and might caused delay of certain post in timing wise.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:19:34 +0000

I have auto-notifiers always on,
but emails i check once a day.

“Keep a reserve of post ideas.” – really good tip !!!

By: nitinpai

nitinpai — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:37:38 +0000

I am here with a different opinion. Instead of hunting for news just to post on a particular topic you should try to create something unique. The key should be to maintain top quality and not to post just for the sake of posting.

In order to do this a detailed layout for a post should be made and a research should be done carefully.

By: sweet.vanjava

sweet.vanjava — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:31:12 +0000

thanks for the tips, realy helpfull 🙂

By: Jim Lockwood

Jim Lockwood — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:24:21 +0000

Great tips. I really needed some advice on handling email. But more importantly, your last tip will help me the most. I feel that my post quality can be significantly improved by just following this tip.

Thanks

By: Reno

Reno — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:02:17 +0000

Great post! I really needed these tips right now.

By: Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:27:39 +0000

Good tips. One must keep oneself continuously motivated to be productive. Zig Ziglar said, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

By: Daniel Bates

Daniel Bates — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:41:25 +0000

I never thought about setting up feeds to clear out your inbox.

The book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen really helped get more organized, accomplish more and feel less stressed too.

By: Katy

Katy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:10:37 +0000

Great tips. Productivity comes for me in keeping a schedule. I do one thing at a time, sign out of messengers, and stay on task. If something interrupts my flow I handle it quickly and get back to work. Knowing, that as a Mom, I have little time… keeping a schedule ensures that I’m not only productive but staying on task at the right time.

By: Napster

Napster — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:51:05 +0000

Wise words. Ill try your tips.

By: Joshua Clanton

Joshua Clanton — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:57:07 +0000

My #1 productivity tip at the moment is to try to write before reading email or checking RSS. It allows me to focus much more on the task at hand without having my mind filled with distractions.

By: Ainsworth Boyle

Ainsworth Boyle — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:16:13 +0000

Great tips! I’m in the process of relaunching my own blog, and one of the things I’m out to battle is blogging block.

I agree that the first step is minimizing the distractions, second, staying in context, and third, work ahead.

Thanks,
Ainsworth

By: Dan Cole

Dan Cole — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:15:27 +0000

It’s also a good idea to ask your readers for ideas. I’ve had a few visitors have question relating to my niche and I’ve answered them with a post or series of posts. It really helps to point you the direction the readers want to go.

By: Not John Chow

Not John Chow — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:00:33 +0000

My biggest productivity tip is not to bite off more than you can chew! I have had to relearn this lesson several times in life. Make your strategy managable by breaking it down into smaller tactical pieces. Then schedule your time to include a lot of empty space that you know you will fill in because you have under estimated the time it takes to complete the tasks that you have already accepted.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:27:21 +0000

Justin, that post was submitted by Skellie about 2 months ago :). Somehow I delayed to publish it.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:21:37 +0000

those will sure come in handy

By: Ganha

Ganha — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:21:01 +0000

Wuau really good tips

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:15:08 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I do write more than I publish. Unfortunately I write most posts out first in longhand. Still a chance to put it off when it comes to type it out.

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:11:23 +0000

I swear to god, you are taking posts from my blog. I just published some of these exact points. Haha

Justin Dupre