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…
Before sometime i have read an article in which there had been talked about getting craziness in blogging but at that time i understood to work hard but gradually i came to know it was all about getting smartness in blogging. Sorry, i have no source for it otherwise will surely share here. I personally prefer smart blogging and i know smart blogging is always become beneficial.
The lesson “too much in excess is bad for you” comes to mind. It’s a lot better if you’re going to do things and having fun at the same time rather than doing something just because you’re forced to do things that way. I’d just focus on the creation of good content, and making the people’s stay on my site one awesome experience.
Great advice. Have to admit I have been blogging hard instead of smart but time for a change .
I have seen lots of Blogs who have not done too much of Hard work but they are doing too well Just because of there Smart Tactis…tried a lot but still it’s too far from me….
I totally agree that working smart is a lot better than working hard! I have seen people stay awake for hours and work on their blogs to attract traffic but only if you pay a little attention and keep in mind your goals just as you said, you could achieve those goals a lot more easily.
Hi Mohdakthar,
I think that 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. In the other wise, you will stop your activity.
Best regards, leroile
I think too that you need both approaches to be a succesful blogger…
Part of the proccess is hard, you read different sources|blogs|magazines to keep your ideas flowing, and then, it comes the smart part.
You need to write exceptional posts to attract visitors.
My favourite way of collecting ideas to write about is my RSS Feed. Seriously, I just grab a bunch of RSS from different blogs and every morning I check my own personalized list of hot content. Nothing beats that.
PD. Search term.. aasma at rancorinfotech com?? Uh?
Wow thanks, man. Perhaps people should ask themselves whether they are just blindly working hard… I am very jealous of your success man. Well, not really jealous, I just wish I can achieve the same things.
I’m glad you said that working too hard is actually bad for a person. I guess once in a while I need to stop when I feel like I’m doing too much work without being really productive.
We can learn and earn by acting upon these smart pieces of advice. But for good reputation first make your self rich with knowledge and do its proper application
Really interesting post. I’m new to blogging so I guess I’m neither blogging hard nor smart…at least for now. But I really hope that will change in the future.