How To Blog Consistently on a Part-time Blogger Schedule

Are you finding it difficult to blog consistently every day or every week? Are you lacking the motivation to write blog posts regularly? Maybe you are working full-time and you recently decided to start a blog on the side and after 3-6 months you are starting to question your efforts. It is very possible that you are just not seeing the results for all the effort that you have put into the blog so far. If you are getting less than 100 visitors a day then it can add to that feeling of defeat as it turns out to be not as easy as you expected. For parents or even moms of young children, this can be even worse as the time you have available is quite short. You are probably thinking that there must be a shortcut to get the results faster if only you can find it. The truth is that there genuinely is a more defined path to achieving your goals which can lead to faster results but it really depends on your foundation. In this post, I am going to outline a number of key secrets that will help you keep up with your blog and develop a great blogging routine. Also, it will help you to blog regularly and confirm a blogging schedule that is more fluid to propel you to your blogging goals and life dreams. Why You Should Blog Consistently? Well, you may have heard this before but one of the keys to blogging success is consistency. One reason for this is that blogging is a journey of growth for both you and your reader. The average successful blog publishes between 4 and 16 posts a month so all the content needed for your blog is not created in a day. Content for your blog is developed over time based on your reader's feedback because blogging involves two-way communication. People learn in small digestible chunks so it is a bit misleading to get your blog to blow up and become successful after just 10-20 blog posts. In reality, this only happens if you already have celebrity or authority status. However, if no one knows you then it is all about growing a new relationship. photo by Sarah Pflug Understanding the Reader Before we look at routines, schedules and goals to help you blog consistently there is a very simple key to your success. That key is understanding the reader. If you spend time understanding who is your ideal reader or avatar you will know what they want. It is possible that you have already developed an avatar or ideal client profile but let's back up a minute. Do you really know them well enough? Here is a list in no particular order of items you should know about your avatar. * Age* Gender* Where do they live? (country, city)* Do they live in a house or an apartment?* Their neighbourhood, what does it look like?* What are their daily, weekly, monthly or annual challenges?* Outline their biggest needs?* The kind of problems they are trying to solve personally, financially* Their deepest desires and dreams for them and their family, what are they?* In terms of their biggest fears, what are they? (not spiders, emotional ones)* Do you get their short-term and long-term goals?* Any idea of their good and bad habits?* What gets them excited?* The stuff that annoys them, what are they?* Their passion projects, what are they?* Where do they spend the most time online?* List the kind of items they spend their money on when they get paid?* What type of podcasts do they listen to?* Which software and/or apps do they use?