Blogging is a tough job! Every article and blog written involves ideating, writing, structuring, publishing, and marketing. The blogger does not write 1-2 blogs or articles they instead simultaneously work on so many concepts and churning creative idea. Audiences are continually looking for articles that could give them the new thought, idea, learn, deep dive, or form an opinion around a topic or subject. The key to success in blogging is consistency and rolling out the articles and blog at a regular time interval. However, some tips can help you to be more efficient and productive.
Build an Idea Tank:
Formulating an idea or a topic to write is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks for every blogger. An idea can spark at any point of time, be it when reading a book, playing a video game or even a morning walk. These can be at some most unexpected time. Hence you should always have a small notebook or even your mobile phone to write down an idea or a thought. Note down any of the ideas, and then you can refresh or produce it later on. When you are short of the idea, you can always come to this idea tank and use the idea for the next article. Evernote is a great tool to save your ideas. It can be accessed from multiple devices at all the time be it your desktop or a mobile device. Google Keep and Notes are also a great tool that can save your time and increase productivity.
Content Plan:
A content plan is a must for every blogger. This plan is a general content plan where you can map which article you will create on a particular day and when you are going to publish it. The content plan can also work in conjunction with the marketing strategy or content marketing. With the help of this calendar, you can plan, execute and review the content and execute the content marketing strategy effectively. There are several tools available in the market to help you plan your content efficiently. Google Calendar is one among the best tool to quickly plan your content and even collaborate among the team members also.
Automate tasks through tools:
Automating the common and day to day tasks helps you to save your time, money and effort. Most of the bloggers and marketers use a buffer to schedule and publish articles, blogs and social media post to all the social media portals with just a few clicks. There are also several automation tools in the market that can be helpful in automating few of the daily repetitive tasks.
Structure each article and post:
The basic and the preliminary step in writing a blog and an article is creating the best structure. It gives the body to your writing and is a must for every blogger and writer. Creating a structure will enable you to create a good flow of content making it easier to complete your piece. Most of the common content types like lists, review, checklists have the basic common and same structure which can be reused and hence save the time and effort.
Invest in Grammar tools:
Once you are done with the writing part of your article or a blog post, then you can best proofread it to identify the grammatical errors and fix them. This practice not only helps in saving the time but also saves you from the embarrassment of the readers. It saves a lot of time in editing the content as the proofreading is time consuming and still be prone to human errors. Grammarly is a tool that helps you simplify your task and quickly prompt you with the better and well -written phrases and is a complete virtual writing assistant. It simplifies your sentences with the suggestions you make and makes your article mistake free.
There is still a lot more than you can do to save time and we hope that the tips mentioned above can be of real help and saves your time and efforts in creating great content.