A Day In The Life
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After having read how Darren does it, we had a hard long look at our own blogging schedule and decided it was time to try and improve.
We are what you call impulsive posters. We don’t plan ahead, we do research while we are writing, not before. We hit publish as soon as we finish an article. We’re basically all over the place when it comes to blogging! Maybe we should start podcasting.
They say that consistency is something that gets appreciated by your regular readers and we’ll try to learn how to deliver the goods in the next few weeks.
Here’s a typical day for us at the farm:
We wake up at around 7AM (gmt+1) and go through our emails and new comments. Since we’re on the other side of the world from most our readers, the blog is most active when we’re sleeping. Once we have disected our inbox, we’ll start writing the first few sentences of a new post if some ideas pop into our head. These ideas usually only come to us in the first hour of a new day, after that we’re too busy with our 9 till 5 which brings our creative moojo to a grinding halt. Blogging is like having a second job! 8:30AM comes and we’re always running to catch the cattle-train to work.
Having attended the real world for 9 long hours, we hop back onto the train for a 30 minute ride along the Irish country side. In this time we usually grab the pen and paper from our saddlebags and start jotting down snippets. New ideas, concepts and projects. This is a great way to capture your thoughts. When running low on the creative juice, we boost ourselves by reading back through our little notepad. People look at us funny when we’re writing sometimes since we tend to have a stupid grin on our face when we come up with something good! If only they knew the were staring at the most famous cows of the digital age!
We’re back at the barn around 6:30 PM and after spending some quality time with the girlfriend, (although she doesn’t seem to think those 5 minutes are enough!) we once again take place behind our macbook to take off where we left the day before on our work in progress -World Domination – We try to reply to the emails we got since we can’t get to them at work, and finish whatever post is lingering in our blog’s limbo. Up until about 1 AM, we’re browsing the blogosphere, working on our other sites and helping out other bloggers with their problems on IM. We manage to squeeze in going to the shop, eating dinner and do some of that wierd stuff people tend to call socializing.
As you can see, the life of a blogging cow isn’t what you’d expect it to be! We hope that by this time next year, we can do a similar post. Only then we’d like to be out of a job, writing about our new pasture with swimming pool(s), Ferrari red tractors and give you the ins and outs on offshore banking in the cayman islands. If we can sell this blog we might be able to write about sooner than you think!
What’s your blogging schedule? Do you guys plan ahead? Have you mastered a steady posting pattern and has this improved your overall blogging experience? We’re curious as to how you do it so let us know in the comments!
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A cow must get some strange looks on a train in the irish country side!
I have no posting schedual which is bad for me because I’m proboly not going to be able to get much done for the next couple weeks due to work. I better get started on some stuff.
Are you guys hosted by FatCow Hosting?I thought that would be hilarious…
LMAO! That would be hilarious
Hi Mr Moo
I didn’t realise you were Irish Cows, I am Irish also, but I live in Wales
My blogging schedule is similar to yours as I have a day job as well.
You are definately right about consitency, this was one of the things I picked up early on, and I have a schedule which I stick too.
You seem to spew out a million posts a day, we were wondering how you do it!
Hi Mr Moo
Most of it is done using the timestamp thing in wordpress.
I write 3 posts the night before, usually one or two at lunchtime, then maybe one or two after work, plus the ones for the next day.
It is a little different for me as most of my posts are short as they are focusing on new products or gadgets.
I am a ginormous fan of the WordPress timestamp, it saves me so much time and cranky hours, and because there are people sleeping on the other side of the world when I’m posting, I try to post them around 10 the night before so Irish cows (as if they come by, lol!) and other Non American money makers can learn how to manage their money even when I’m sleeping..
I love the timestamp feature as well. I should utilize it a bit more in the future.
I used the timestamp feature just once.
I’ve used it a few times but its hard to try and use it frequently as there are so many new things to write about each day and if you write everything in advance, you sometimes fall behind on info that is relevant to current news. The other problem I mentioned is writers block LOL
Interesting schedule. I don’t have a specific schedule. I blog when I get a good topic.
” My blogging time went from 8-10 hours a day to 2 hours and 15 minutes per day (less on the days that one of the libraries was closed). ”
You can make Daren a million $ easy working like that!
You should let out the occasional “Moo” on the cattle train.
I wonder will the real john chow throw in a bid.
$12.5k isn’t bad for a good idea and 2 months work. I hope you get it !
Yep I work long hours just like you cows, but I do have a plan. In fact I have three plans. A daily plan which is a series of things I do every day to help promote, a short term plan which are things that I would like to accomplish over the next 7-10 days including rough drafts of articles/posts and a longer term plan for larger projects and things to be done over the next 1-3 months. Needless to say my plate is always full. And yes, I do feel that it has made a big difference to me being this regimented.
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I have one of those jobs that is 9 months long / year. So right now I don’t have a sched. I’ll work maybe 3 times a week and the other 4 days are either sit around and surf / come up with ideas or doing eventful things.
I’ll NEED a sched. when my real job comes up again in a week. I plan on reading Darren’s article again to remind me of what I should do for the next 9 months.
I’m looking for a day job to provide some kind of real-world foil to the joys of the blogosphere.
I have been blogging for years, but never consciously as I am now, with a goal in mind (frugal financial independence). So right now I am like you–I write when I have something to write about, or an idea pops into my head, while learning the ropes of all the tools and toys I can use to get to my goal.
I have no real routine though I am thinking of creating some short posts ahead of time to post at a regular interval.
That will serve me well when I do find paying work.
I find too that outlining topics and writing down even the dumbest of ideas can later provide inspiration…
I have been meaning to schedule my posts… thats a good idea. I think there are certain times of the day when a post is more likely to get traffic form rss readers than others.
I read that article Darren wrote as well, and I fall into the category of impulse blogger for a reason. One of my blogs is about the stock market and other than doing well researched articles, sometimes you just need to get some news out which means impulse posting.
On my other blog, it’s all impulse posting because I post about day to day events or occurrences or I am running contests to give stuff away. Either way, I don’t think impulse blogging is necessarily a bad thing. I think a blog is whatever you make of it and readers stay with your blog because they enjoy your point of view or what you have to offer.
My posting schedule is pretty random as well. This was due to the issue of writers block for awhile and of course the interference of the 9 hour work days. Luckily I’ve put in my notice to quit and as soon as I come back from my vacation at DisneyWorld, I only have 2 days of work left before the nightmare of the 9 hour work days end
Hey I just quit a job too, but I have to go to a new one Monday….one day I will be able to work at home and post three or four times a day
LOL I am not too concerned with getting a new job for now. If I can, I rather just work on developing businesses of my own than to work for someone else. Of course I did apply for another job but I haven’t heard back from them yet. I also applied for volunteer work at our local public library =]
I have lots of ideas, but I’ve read before that doing back to back comprehensive posts on a blog will bore readers, so I try to mix up shorter articles with longer ones…all within the financial realm…my Career inspired week has been a hit so I’ll be writing more along that avenue…that helps me regulate the posts…everything is a variable I guess
I am very much an impulse blogger, which is bad for at least one of my sites, where info needs to come out at the same time week after week.
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Update one website a day on a continuous looping schedule (300-600 word article) and then try and update my 3 blogs at a rate of 1 post per day. If I think of anything I just need to write I tend to either just make a note of the subject or write and leave it as a word doc.
In the afteroon I concentrate on my software, all in all not a bad way to make a living.
Hi Mr Moo
I didn't realise you were Irish Cows, I am Irish also, but I live in Wales
My blogging schedule is similar to yours as I have a day job as well.
You are definately right about consitency, this was one of the things I picked up early on, and I have a schedule which I stick too.