CategoryBe Productive

This guest post is by Bea Kylene Jumarang of Writing Off the Rails. During one of my blocks of free time, I found myself watching a video from Tim Harford, an economist and a writer. In it, he was discussing his three rules for failing productively, and those rules were ...more

This guest post is by Jefferson and Michelle of See Debt Run. Blogging with your significant other can be a very rewarding experience, as long as you communicate openly. My wife and I started personal finance site See Debt Run in January of this year to document our journey out ...more

This guest post is by Karol K of YoungPrePro blog. The advice on how to be “the effective guy” is just so common online that it starts to get boring … You know, reading yet another article on how to be a great blogger and all… So why not take ...more

As we were preparing this weekend’s posts—which all deal with topic of productivity and the blogger’s lifestyle—I was reminded of a blogging truism that many of us seem to forget. For the blogger who’s taking their blog and their readership seriously, what’s good for us is generally good for our ...more

This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. What’s the one similarity between these blogging tasks? approving comments on your blog proofreading posts writing and preparing your post to be published (finding images, SEO, setting tags and categories, and so on) keeping yourself up to date with social media writing ...more

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of my blogging career, it’s that good blogs take time. If you’re run off your feet, and struggling to find space to do all the things your blog demands of you, that’s probably not what you wanted to hear. But in ...more

This guest post is by Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner. Running a multi-author blog can become a hassle, especially if you do not have a dedicated content manager for your site.Having run several multi-author blogs myself, I understand the issues you face and decisions you have to make. If you’re running ...more

It’s Monday—the start of a new week on your blog—and I wonder what challenges you’re facing. If you’ve neglected your RSS or social media feeds over the weekend, you’ll likely find plenty of good advice there—advice that you feel you really should try out if you want your blog to ...more

Over the last week, we’ve been kickstarting stalled blog content. We’ve worked through the process of planning, writing and editing a post, and I hope that by now some of you might have published that post. At this point, I hope you’re thinking that kickstarting the content on your neglected ...more