How much time spent on your blog?

Hey everyone it’s time for thought sharing! As what every blogger would have ask themselves or other blogging buddies: “How many hours you spent in your blog or a blog post per day or per week?” I must admit that this is a questions with few different of answers, if you search the internet you might got your mind clogged with a lot of suggestions and opinion regarding this matter and the thing is, they are all seems to be making sense, so in this post I too wanted to share my own thoughts in terms of how much time spent on your blog will lead to success?

Who you are?

The question here is not asking your whereabouts instead I am asking you do you consider yourself a full time blogger or part time blogger? Because the answer will sort of determine on how many hours you will need to commit in managing your blog.

A simple logic: full timer will indeed spend more hours and effort in maintaining blog because the need to quickly generate income to survive; Likewise, part-timer blogger spend lesser time duet to their day job. The advantages of being a part time blogger is, they have a fixed income monthly which full time blogger do not have, on the other hand a full time blogger has more freedom in their time to explore more possibilities for their passion, so just determine one has their price folks.

However, the answer of what is the exact amount hours to spend for full or part time blogger is still unclear, this is simply because…

Amount of hours spent do not always equal to amount of quality

Sometimes if you spent your whole day just to do research on something you barely know could be tiring and in the end you seems like as though as you have found nothing, but sometimes even only a short 5 minutes of random search you could finish typing two  paragraph while brushing your teeth (Yes, I exaggerated).

My point here is that there is no such thing as spending long hours doing something will always better than spending short hours. It would be a little bit like love, a couple who has been together longer than other does not mean their relationship is better.

What you need is a PRODUCTIVE HOURS instead, even though you have only a few hours left, you could do more when you focus good enough. Check out the pomorodo technique for one of a way to stay productive, quite amazing if you ask me.

My personal hours spent on a blog post

I usually spent maximum of 4 hours on a blog post as a part time blogger, I will break it down into a list of steps for you guys.

Deciding a content

I will decide a blog content first after looking back some of my previous post, sometimes I plan for the next one after the current one too, I spent around half an hour maximum on this because I will need to look around other posts for ideas.

Research!

Alright after having a basic idea of what I wanted to blog but still lack in information, like everyone, I will search the internet for references and information. This process usually took about half an hour or more because sometimes I have to read the whole pages or just look through briefly.

List out the points and refining it

Making a simple list of the points from what you have researched helps in maintaining the consistency of your content, the list of points also helps in taking a look of your yet elaborate blog as a whole or big idea. This process takes me about 20 minutes.

The finishing touch

Finally I will start and write my blog takes me around 2 to 3 hours to finish it, done some proof reading after I finish writing, and the remaining time is for adding images or video if you have any, then I will hit the “publish” button, that’s all takes me around 4 hours more~

All the content above is what I have been doing for previous posts, that was the technically listing out, but most importantly like I always agree on: ”If you are not having fun, you are doing it wrong”, so have fun blogging guys!