Multiple Blog Syndrome
Do you suffer from MBS (Multiple Blog Syndrome) or is your one blog already too much to handle? :-(
I hear ya.
Last week, I was devising a plan for a product relaunch (a la the great advice from Jeff Walkers Product Launch Formula course) and was thinking of adding another blog to my list. Right now, I have 5 blogs and a few of them are seriously neglected. So what am I thinking? I'm going to start another blog I'm going to neglect? I must be crazy.
Well, I realized that managing numerous blogs doesn't have to be complicated and I just need to get organized. It's simply a matter of scheduling when I'll post to each blog and having a pool of topic ideas. I've also enlisted the help of business partners and assistants for some of the blogs and we've created a schedule that will allow us to post interesting discussions regularly...so things will be changing for my blogs in the coming weeks.
Do you have a blogging schedule that could help you post regularly? Or does your blog software allow you to pre-schedule entries to publish on a certain date (WordPress allows you to do this).
More Ideas ==> I've written some blog topic ideas that you can use for your own blogs. I hope they'll help.
Click here to read them.
I hear ya.
Last week, I was devising a plan for a product relaunch (a la the great advice from Jeff Walkers Product Launch Formula course) and was thinking of adding another blog to my list. Right now, I have 5 blogs and a few of them are seriously neglected. So what am I thinking? I'm going to start another blog I'm going to neglect? I must be crazy.
Well, I realized that managing numerous blogs doesn't have to be complicated and I just need to get organized. It's simply a matter of scheduling when I'll post to each blog and having a pool of topic ideas. I've also enlisted the help of business partners and assistants for some of the blogs and we've created a schedule that will allow us to post interesting discussions regularly...so things will be changing for my blogs in the coming weeks.
Do you have a blogging schedule that could help you post regularly? Or does your blog software allow you to pre-schedule entries to publish on a certain date (WordPress allows you to do this).
More Ideas ==> I've written some blog topic ideas that you can use for your own blogs. I hope they'll help.
Click here to read them.
8 Comments:
Managing several blogs is great if they're all distinct topics, and you have the energy to manage them all.
While building a website's reputation, isn't it a good idea to specialize to develop one's reputation?
Hi Monty. Thanks for dropping by. ;-) Yeah, I agree to specialize for each website. There may be the odd reason to develop a blog for another reason (to promote a certain product, for example)...but the reason for my multiple blogs is that I reach a different target audience with my websites. But thankfully, I don't have as many blogs as I do websites!
A schedule might help me, but I DISPISE them so I doubt I'd stick to them ;) That is one of the things I most love about what I do at home --- no schedule! :)
But, I think the idea of having a list of ideas ready and getting people to help are both awesome ideas that I might just have to try.
Alice, I get the impression that you have enough segmented traffic to support different blogs. That helps.
If you started cold, with no traffic either on websites or blogs, and started doing 5 blogs, you would be pulling your hair out trying to get some readership.
When people are starting off, I would suggest that they just do one blog /site and build it up. Spreading yourself too thin is a good recipe for failure.
Yeah definitely, Monty. I agree. A number of my blogs are in completely different markets from this one...and I wouldn't have made a bunch of sites in different markets until I had the one going well already. Excellent advice!
Oh Nell, I forgot to comment on what you said too. I hate schedules and to do lists myself, but I find if I go with nothing, I mess things up. I just choose a few key things that I need to get done and give myself a schedule on those. The rest, I just to do by the seat of my pants!
Very intertesting post. I have three blogs and have thought about starting another one or two. I actually think I could start a blog network of about ten blogs and spend all my free time blogging, but the problem is that I would spend ALL my free time blogging. It is good to take a step back and make sure you aren't spreading yourself too thin before starting a new blog/website. BTW - I love your blog, tons of excellent advice.
Hi Jim. Thanks for the recommendation. I've actually been using WordPress for one of my blogs and that allows scheduling, but I never seem to schedule more than a few days in advance. I think I'm a sucker for fresh and new content -- that's one of the reasons I have trouble updating my autoresponders too!
I am intrigued by the Amazon integration though because that would be perfect for one of my blogs and would save me a bunch of time. I'm definitely going to check it out.
And thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your kind comments.
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