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- Blog Wise Tip 2: Know Your Motivations
Every blogger has different motivations, but the interviews we completed as we developed Blog Wise showed how important it is to know what your motivations actually are.
The bloggers we spoke to listed a range of motivations.
The first was community and audience. Darren told us he's motivated when he sees the community here at ProBlogger getting energy from his ideas. He's motivated even further when he gets energy back from you guys.
Amy Porterfield's motivated when she hears about the results her readers have achieved using her advice. And Heather's dooce.com motivated by providing a place for her readers to form firm friendships.
Another key motivation for the bloggers we met was their blog's topic.
Gretchen Rubin, of The Happiness Project, said, "The more I think about happiness, and the more I learn about it, the more intrigued I am, the more fascinated I am, and the more directions it seems to lead in."
She sees that motivation as a key to actually producing a consistent, lasting blogging presence: "The deeper I go into it, the bigger it gets," she noted.
Anther key motivation was a sense of contribution. Leo Babauta of Zen Habits explained that he's motivated by his desire to do meaningful work, to enjoy his life, and to question established perceptions.
"All the truths that we believe in as a culture and as a society—none of those are necessarily true," he commented. "So you have to question them and test them. This is why I do experiments," he added. Like Gretchen's approach, Leo's motives contribute to his very productive creative strategy.
One thing that really stood out about these bloggers is that, in each case, understanding their motivations has allowed each person to set priorities and directions for their blogging work—and to pursue something they love.
It's your turn: what's your blogging motivation? How do your motives help you get your work done? Tell us in the comments.
Tomorrow: planning for productivity.
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
Blog Wise Tip 2: Know Your Motivations
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Over the coming days, we'll be presenting a series of pro blogging productivity tips that we've compiled using the advice of nine A-list bloggers we interviewed for Blog Wise, our new ebook on blogging productively.
Today, let's consider the question, "do you have a productivity problem?"
In the blogosphere, it's pretty easy to compare your blog to others, and feel like you're not doing enough.
But how can you identify areas within your own blogging work that aren't as productive as they could be? These productivity problems may not be easy to spot, but they can really hold your blog back.
The bloggers we spoke to had a few pointers.
- Emotions: Heather Armstrong from Dooce.com admits that when she ends the day in tears, she knows something needs to change. "That's usually my body saying, 'something's out of whack… the balance is off.'"
- Energy: Darren keeps an eye on his energy levels, and those of his readers. "If I'm doing certain things and people are responding well to them, then that's a signal that I need to do that more," he says. "And conversely, if I'm doing something and there's no reaction or a negative reaction, then I'm questioning, 'Is this something that I want to put time and energy into?'"
- Quality and results: Amy Porterfield, of AmyPorterfield.com tells us "If you're not meeting deadlines, if you're not actually producing great work that's getting great results, you have to look at that and think something is broken in your process."
- Progress: Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com has experienced that first-hand. Before he merged his five companies, he had, he says, "these separate satellites, and they didn't share together in knowledge or expertise or teamwork or profits … I saw that the only way I was going to get to where I saw as a possible future vision, was to put all these smart people together."
What about you? Do you have a productivity problem? What are its symptoms? Let's share them!
Tomorrow: Motivation and productivity
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
Blog Wise Tip 1: Diagnose Productivity Problems
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79% of ProBlogger readers identify ‘finding time to blog’ as one of their biggest challenges.
Last year I ran a survey among ProBlogger readers to identify what the biggest challenges that bloggers face are. A number of common themes emerged – one of the strongest can be summed up in these comments from readers:
- I just don’t have time to blog like I know I should
- I can barely post once a week… how do you guys do it?
- After a day of work, kids and keeping a house running my blogging is getting neglected
‘Finding Time to blog’ was a massive emerging theme among ProBlogger readers. Other issues around productivity, effective use of time, questions about out sourcing and more were also common.
As a result I immediately sat down with my team here in Melbourne and we began to plan for a resource to help bloggers become more effective with the limited time that they have available to them.
The Creation of Blog Wise: How to Do More with Less
ProBlogger editor – Georgina Laidlaw – began a series of interviews with successful bloggers. We put together a list of 9. The criteria was that we wanted to find people who had full lives yet who also managed to create great blogs and social media presences.
The result is a fantastic new PDF eBook – Blog Wise.
Featured Bloggers in Blog Wise
We ended up with a fascinating mix of bloggers who not only had great blogs but who also managed family life, other employment, extensive travel, other businesses and more. Here’s who you’ll find contributing to this eBook:
- Heather Armstrong: Founder of Dooce, author of numerous books, mother of 2 kids (and 2 dogs)
- Brian Clark: Founder of CopyBlogger Media which includes CopyBlogger the blog, StudioPress Themes, Premise, Scribe and more.
- Amy Porterfield: author, prolific on Social media, contributor to numerous blogs, speaker, Mom and much more.
- Abby Larson: Founder of Style Me Pretty – a network of 12 sites which she manages with her husband Tait.
- Matt Kepnes: Founder of Nomadic Matt's Travel Site – constantly on the road travelling
- Jeff Goins: blogging at Goins Writer, writing a book, husband and…. he works a full time job
- Gretchen Rubin: Founder of the Happiness Project blog, author of 4 books, wife and mother of 2 daughters.
- Leo Babauta: Founder of Zen Habits and numerous other projects, author, minimalist and father of 6 kids.
- Darren Rowse (me): owner of Digital Photography School and ProBlogger, author, social media addict and husband and dad to 3 boys.
This 18,000+ word eBook is divided into a chapter for each blogger in which Georgina pulls out the nuggets from each interview. She has also pulled together a 10th chapter which wraps it all up.
Bonus Productivity Problem Solver
And as an extra bonus we’e included a ‘Productivity Problem Solver’ PDF which covers 21 common productivity problems for bloggers and quotes from each of the above bloggers on how they overcome those issues. For example:
- Can’t Get Motivated? See what Jeff Goins has to say
- Having Trouble Focusing? Gretchen Rubin shares a tip
- Can’t Keep Track of Post Ideas? Amy Porterfield shares her quick tip
- Got Writers Block? Darren Rowse and Heather Armstrong share what they do
- Got an Opportunity that you’re not sure what to do with? Abby Larson gives you some questions to ask yourself
- Thinking of Building a Team but unsure how to Keep it Productive? Brian Clark shares some thoughts
- Feeling Overwhelmed? Leo Babauta will get you on track with his wisdom
- Been Putting Stuff Off? Matt Kepnes tells you how he gets things done
I’m really excited by Blog Wise because it not only pulls together some great bloggers into the one resource – it gives you a unique insight into how they go about what they do.
Reading it will give you some great ideas to apply to your own blogging but also some inspiration and motivation through hearing the stories of these bloggers too.
Grab Yours Today
Blog Wise and the Bonus Problem solver are PDFs and easily read on any PDF reading device including an iPad (you’ll just need to download it to your computer first for uploading to your device).
Normally priced at $19.99 for a limited time and to celebrate its launch it is $14.99 USD.
Feeling a little dry? Can’t fit all the blogging tasks in? Learn more about Blog Wise here or grab your copy directly from the button below.
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
Discover the Secrets of 9 Productive Bloggers: Blog Wise
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Today marks the close of our Blog Smarter mini-series of posts, which explain a variety of techniques for scalable blog monetization.
In case you missed them, the posts were:
- Blog Smarter: Don’t Just End Up Trading Hours for Dollars
- Blog Smarter: A Step-by-step Guide to Boost Your AdSense Earnings
- Blog Smarter: Turn Your Blogging Skills Into Successful Affiliate Promotions
- Blog Smarter: 9 Ways to Make Money from WordPress … Without Having a Blog
- Blog Smarter: 5 WordPress Plugins to Help You Make Money From Your Blog
- Blog Smarter: Invest in Your Own Success
This little series hints at one of the ways we’re shifting the focus of our content this year here at ProBlogger. We’ve decided to trial a more collaborative approach to posts that aims to present a range of views on a given topic—in this case, getting more value (in this case, monetarily speaking) out of the time you put into blogging. We’re hoping that these will provide food for thought, and solid starting points for your own exploration.
I know that Georgina, our content manager, has some other ideas up her sleeve—but I also know that she’d love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Was the series too short or too long? Did you think there were too many authors? Not enough angles on the topic? Did it address you as a beginning, longer-term, or stalwart blogger?
And of course, if there are any topics you’d especially like us to look at going forward, we’d be very interested to hear those ideas, too…
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
What Did You Think of Blog Smarter?
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