This is a guest post by Mohd Aktar from web designers Taiwan.
We’re often advised that hard work will get us ahead. That’s correct to a certain extent – Working too hard can have a very negative impact on you, as well.
Long hours and the strain to keep doing much more can result in anxiety, depression, burn out.
Rather than just working hard and getting into a lot of hours, why don’t you try to find ways to work smart?
Why?
Simply because smart work indicates you’re prone to get to your goals.
In the early days of my blogging, I devoted my precious time to writing terrific blog posts and attracting visitors.
I was thrilled by every new comment on my blog and spent lots of time checking out Google Analytics.
It was all exciting and helped me grow my blog and my audience, but there was no large picture or a whopping plan behind all this effort.
Professional blogging can be quite rewarding if you have used your blog smartly. For reaching these goals, all you want to do is to work smartly and build a highly effective blog. Some methods behind successful blogging are listed here…
THE GOAL WITH ANY BLOG POST
Always consider what you want to gain from your blog and with a particular person’s blog post before you decide to write and publish it. Some of the goals you might be working towards:
• Attracting brand new site visitors
• Building a community
• Retaining existing visitors
• Starting a conversation
• Selling your own personal product/affiliate product
• Building a contact list/Twitter followers/Facebook likes
• Attracting clients
A few posts that I’ve made since I started blogging strategically are created to get viewers to take action I want them to take, such as, “like” on Facebook, browse the affiliate product recommended or sign-up to the subscriber list.
I REST MORE TO GET 100%
I’m often a bit doubtful about testimonies of people working on 3 hours sleep while they develop their blogging business. Certain, they might gain something fantastic – but I wonder if they’d have done better still with a full night’s rest.
If you’re doing anything remotely innovative or which needs focus, you’re not likely to be at anywhere close to 100% if you’re not relaxing enough. That doesn’t simply mean finding a good night’s sleep – what’s more, it implies taking time off to rest and play. That isn’t “wasting” time – it’s making certain that you can perform BEST in your blogging hours.
SMART BLOGGING TOWARDS SOMETHING GREAT
It is crucial to consider the objective of your blog and what you need any visitor to do when looking at your website. So, refocus your header, navigation menu, sidebar along with other key areas of your website in the direction of that goal.
Carrying this out tactically and implementing strategically can get you from the blogging mode and can make you more targeted towards attaining something great together with your blog. You will spend your time and effort blogging smartly rather than working hard.
If you are a blogger and are asking yourself what you should do precisely, to make it large, don’t get worried; all you have to do is to take the time to check out the successful bloggers in the community, and study a lot of things on the web to have a hang of it.
I hope you like my ideas; it has helped me become a better blogger, and wish it works for you too!
Do share with us your tips or suggestions towards blogging hard or blogging smart…
In my opinion, in order to succeed in blogging, you need to be original. You can be smart, but without imagination, you won’t get too far. The blogosphere is a place full of people, successful people. It’s way too crowded in my opinion, only with innovation, tons of hours of hard work, smart ideas and right steps you can climb your way to the top.
Hi Akhtar,
I think, hard and smart work both should be done in a balanced way. It is very important to know our goal before writing or publishing a blogpost and then refocus on other key areas of our website in the direction of that goal. Rest and relaxation are also essential to give best results because it helps you to focus on your target.
One can look at blogging as hard work. But, my aim is to enjoy writing my blog posts and doing the other things to popularize my blog. When compared to other jobs, there is very little hard work involved in blogging.
I do agree that working smart is necessary, and that one should make every effort to be fully mentally alert when blogging. Obviously, working smart includes doing such things as you are doing, Mohdakthar–guest blogging!
Mohd Aktar you save my life. I am a new blogger and i was thinking of posting 5 to 6 posts daily but i know i realize that quality is better than quantity.
For the initial days of blogging I was a hard working blogger. But now over time after a couple of years I have become a smart worker of blog. Great guest post Md. Akhtar.
Hi Mohdakthar,
in my opinion you must work both smart and hard 🙂 And it doesn’t depend on what are you doing – blogging, writing, etc. In each work you must find balance beetwen customer needs, and your own needs 🙂
BR, Chris
Blogging hard vs Blogging smart. Obviously, hardworking bloggers do not always get all the audience at a time. Smart bloggers always do.. This is something we have to think about, writing blog about interesting things going on around us will not always get audience. It needs to be popular on the internet, people always want to be updated, informed and educated about the blogs that we are writing.. Both are important as mentioned by everyone else here. ^^
Becoming a smart blogger takes time. You need experience and hard work. So, I think you need to be both smart and hardworking to be a successful blogger. Blogging is not easy, you need to research and always update your blog.
Both these aspects, hard and smart blogging are useful at their own place. Once you start a blog, you need to hard blog, you need to write posts, create bulk backlinks. But once you have a descent number of articles and a base of backlinks, the only work remains is the popularizing of the blog, that is kinda considered in Smart Blogging zone. As of now, i have 200+ posts on my blog, so i can just chill and go for some smart ways.. 🙂
Nowadays being smart is what matter really..It hardly matters whether you are a hardworking person or not.So I am also working smart and trying to concentrate on working smartly..Btw I loved the post..