How to Improve Your Blogging Skills

Hi WA Fam,

I just want to share something that I have learned over the past few days on how to improve our blogging skills. These techniques are probably also mentioned in the training as well but I got this from books that I am reading and from social media marketing class that I am taking. I hope this will help you become more efficient in blogging.

Write an Outline of Your Blog Before Your Sleep

I know right, it sounds crazy! According to Micheal Hyatt, author of Platform, if you brainstorm or write your outline before you sleep, then your brain will continue to process the information especially during REM phase of your sleep. As a result, you actually refine your thoughts while you sleep. Amazing!

Great Writing Habits Trumps Writter's Block

John Maxwell mentioned in his book, "15 Irrefutable Laws of Growth", that if you want to be a successful in something, like blogging or authoring a book, then you need to practice the "Law of Consistency."

In other words, you need to develop a healthy habit that will help you succeed in your blogging/ online business career.

To do this, you need to pick a time and place to do your blog. It has to be same time and same place doing the same thing everyday. By doing this, you can successfully eliminate writer's blog because as soon as your brain picks up the que that you are about to write a blog, then it will automatically goes to work mode. (Don't forget to reward yourself after)

Use Buffer to Automatically Publish Your Blog on Schedule

I think one of the best thing that could happen to us is when we are on fire writing entries for our blog, but does this mean we have to post every single post? Absolutely not!

Keep it consistent. If you post 3 times a week, and you post it every Friday, Monday, and Wednesday night, then you should not change that. Your readers will expect specific number of post per week on a specific day and will probably not going to be extra happy if the numbers changes every week.

My advice is to use "Buffer". Buffer is a free software that will post your blogs on the date you specified. The advantage of using this is you can create a lot of post in one day but spread the publishing frequency throughout the week. This is also helpful especially on days when you cannot think of anything to post.

What is Your Technique?

So there you go, those are the new things that I learned that helps me be more efficient and effective in blogging.

What do you think about my new technique? Do you think it is helpful or meh?

What about you? Do you have a "secret" technique that you use to make sure you consistently publish a high quality post? If yes, do you mind sharing?

Cheers,

John Greg