What's Keeping You From Blogging?

We all have hob­bies and habits. Some of us like play­ing golf, run­ning, read­ing the morn­ing news­pa­per, week­end rides, even play­ing around on our new techie gad­gets. How much time do we spend doing these activ­i­ties each day or week? Here is my chal­lenge as we enter the spring sea­son. What is keep­ing you from adding some­thing new to your week­ly rou­tine? How about start­ing and main­tain­ing a blog? Already have one but the last post was 2011? Keep read­ing. So what’s keep­ing you from blog­ging? Is it that you are not sure what to write about? Or are you afraid you’ll run out of ideas? Maybe you are not a good writer and are afraid of what peo­ple might think when you mis­spell ​“except” when it should be ​“accept.” I can think of a dozen more rea­sons why most small busi­ness­es don’t blog. I think the num­ber one rea­son is that small busi­ness­es don’t make the time to fit in this very impor­tant mar­ket­ing idea. There is room for every­one still to begin and con­tin­ue to write what they are pas­sion­ate about. Has it worked for me? I’ve been writ­ing about a blog a week for six years and believe me, I some­times want to quit. I, like you, run a small busi­ness, vol­un­teer at my local church as a trustee, am one of the man­agers of our church build­ing project and raise 4 small kids 6 and under. Do I have writ­ers block? Do I some­times want to stop blog­ging? Yes! Quite often to be hon­est. I have the same fears my clients have but have to stuff away that head trash. Has it helped my busi­ness? In more ways than 1. It has giv­en me oppor­tu­ni­ties to do pub­lic speak­ing and trav­el all over the coun­try, gain new clients and grow my busi­ness with­out spend­ing any mon­ey on tra­di­tion­al adver­tis­ing. Actu­al­ly, I did just spent $35 when I reordered busi­ness cards! :-) Ok almost no mon­ey on tra­di­tion­al adver­tis­ing. The point is, if you per­son­al­ly will not blog, you’ve got to get some­one to start blog­ging on a reg­u­lar basis and be faith­ful to con­tin­ue to write for your audi­ence. Don’t stop! Press on! Still Need Help? If you are not sure where to begin, fill out my quick con­tact form and let’s talk. I’ll point you in the right direc­tion. As always, I rec­om­mend blog­ging in house before out­sourc­ing. Pho­to cred­it: Woman in Thrisis