planThis post is about what you need to schedule in order to be an efficient blogger. I am not that excellent in keeping my schedules 100%, however I am working on it :) . This post is written just as much as a reminder for me as it is a guide for all you. Now I’ll start with the things that you should consider planning:

  • Posting Interval
  • Time for research
  • Having a backlog of posts and ideas
  • Time for interaction
  • Planning for failures

Blog Post Interval

Have a preplanned blog posting interval. The keyword is preplanned. Do not try to wing it is much as I do. Make a decision right away to have a schedule. It may be every day, every other day or twice a day. Just make a decision and stick to it like glue.

When you have a preplanned schedule it forces you to stick to it. It even helps you to write beforehand if you have a fixed post interval. Read more of writing with the perfect post interval.

Plan for Failures

Guess what, you will not make all your deadlines and posting schedules. You may get sick or have something unexpected to mess around with your time table. That is why you should plan to fail sometimes and have a backup. You can do this by having a backlog of posts.

Post backlog

You should a have a backlog of posts for at least five days in the future. At this point I have zero. It means that I am basically screwed when I am too busy to update this blog. This is something that I am working on right now. The more posts you have pre-scheduled, the more leeway you have for unexpected events.

Scheduling Time for Other Stuff

Besides just writing blog posts, you need time to do other stuff. The two main things are to schedule time to do research and interaction with others. By research I mean to think of future blog posts and find out new ideas.

For interaction with people twitter is the best, but to be more efficient with it I think one must make a schedule. If you do not have a schedule then you will wind up tweeting always and have less time to do the actual work. Answering the blog comments is also an excellent way to interact and you should schedule a time for it.

You can combine the interaction and research partly by being an active commenter on other people’s blogs. When you comment, you have to read the posts from other people and you can learn new ideas in the process.

Conclusion

Making schedules is the key ingredient in online success. If you have no schedules you will wind up, with getting less done than you should. If you need help with scheduling, you can just ask me and I’ll try to help.