Blogging Systems – Input from Barbara Friedberg
As you know, his year, I will be speaking in FinCon13 a work session, The session is for advanced bloggers and is called “How to Build Systems for Your blog”.
During the conference I will share input I have already received from others. Ahead of the conference I hope to highlight some of that information and share it with all of you.
In this post, we hear from Barbara at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance. Barb is a well educated blogger with an MBA-Finance, an MS-Counseling and a BS-Economics degree. She has worked as a portfolio manager, professor, and more and is also an author.
On her web site, she strives to help you:
- “Learn personal finance strategies,
- Develop smart life and money habits and
- Make your money grow while you sleep by employing basic investing principles!”
Thanks for your input Barb!
In bold are the questions I posed to her, followed by her answers.
What blogging tasks do you think are most important to spend time on? How do you stay focused on those?
Writing great content, organizing the site for accessibility and promoting the content.
What tasks are your blog’s main time suckers?
Proofing and proofing articles, responding to requests for guest posts and emails and promoting posts through social media.
How have you worked towards getting those areas under control and organized?
I use Hootsuite and Buffer for social media and I don’t comment as much as I used to – I participate in forums and social media to develop relationships and drive traffic.
What trouble spots have you overcome by defining steps to handle the issue or by automating things and how did you do it, what did you use?
I had a VA who was great and affordable for commenting. Unfortunately, she went MIA and I haven’t attempted to replace her.
I create spreadsheets for income and expenses and tracking progress on various metrics.
I live by Google calendar.
I outsource tech stuff and occasional guest articles.
If you were to sell your blog, how would you communicate to the buyer how to run it the same way you do?
I don’t expect to sell my site for many years (if ever). At that point I expect to have more of a template to pass on the basics. In my opinion, it takes a really long time to learn the ropes of running a website.
If you are attending FinCon13 and are interested in how to build systems for your blog, stop in on this session on Saturday afternoon for more. Check out Barb’s session too – she is speaking on the topic of Top Investing Strategies for Long Term Wealth.
