So I just got www.justindupre.com online. Yeah, its another blog authored by me. This one is about freelancing, and more specifically, freelance writing because that is the only type of freelance work I do. Check it out if you are thinking about getting into the business of freelancing.
Anyways, it wasn’t easy setting up this blog, and any newbs out there to blogging should know that it isn’t all sugar and candy. There are blog themes to discuss, content you should prepare beforehand, marketing tactics, and hours and hours of time will be needed to do all this. Setting up Justin Dupre.com took me about 8 hours from searhing through themes to getting the couple posts and pages up with plug-ins and all the other blogging necessities.
Having a blog is a time user. You need to update it regularly, care for its aesthetics, write posts, configure it for more traffic, reply to comments and emails and all sorts of other tasks. So before you start a blog, just make sure you are prepared for this amount of time you will need to work on it.
Even if you aren’t the most free person in the world, logged down by work, school or other activities, there are several ways you can still maintain a blog. Some of the most popular blogs on the net only update once or twice a week. Try setting aside 1 hour on the weekend just to blog. Blog durig your work break, or during a boring class that you won’t gain extra knowledge from (listen to your math lessons though. Working on my websites has made that grade bad. Really, really bad. Heh). Write posts down when you don’t have access to a computer and type them later.
Eventually, you’ll get into the groove of things and be blogging faster than a pro. Or, you might decide this isn’t the path for you. Either way, it is still time well spent as it can help you learn more about yourself as well as time management
