You’re only as good as your next post

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Hi guys,

Mike medavoy a film producer and an executive extraordinaire who has been involved with over 300 feature films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky, Annie Hall, Philadelphia and Sleepless in Seattle wrote a book a few years back titled ‘You’re only as good as your next one.’ I guess he meant to say your next film but in our case its our next post.
 
Writing post after post can be not only a daunting experience, to some of us, but also it’s a time consuming effort. Most of us only have enough hours in the day to spend on our blogs (Hey! We do have work and kids you know) and I’m certain that some of us, those that enjoy writing, spend way too much time and energy on writing posts when we should be concentrating on other things (including marketing, back linking and outsourcing).

So, why should we write posts on our blog anyway?

To pull in the punters of course! Yaro Starak explains it best in one of his posts where he talks about Pillar Posting. I won’t go into great detail here but it’s certainly worth the read. He goes on to say that updating your blog, via posts, as often as possible is a great way to bring in a constant stream of readers. But you have to make sure that the content has value because then your readers wont bother coming back to your blog.

Now, some of us have been blessed with the gift of writing good material, while others seem to struggle with it and stare at the computer screen, fingers a ready on the keyboard, with the hope that something will jump at us and materialize on our blog (Yes, i’ve experienced it myself too).
  
When you know that blogs thrive on posts how do you overcome post anxiety?

The answer is pretty straight forward, get someone else to write the posts for you. I’m sure you’ve all heard of Elance and Guru where you can find freelance writers who will write articles for you for the price of a cup of coffee and a muffin. I’ve even gone and put a search in google which gave me a list of potential sites where you can hire writers for the day for as little as $5 an hour and they can provide you with a dozen or so articles for your niche blog.
 
So the solution to writing posts is not that difficult, although it might pinch your pocket to begin with (so, don’t buy those cappuchinos on a daily basis ), it seems a great way to start attracting traffic to your blog.

Regards

Che Guy