Lately, I have been serious about getting better time management and organizational practices in place as lately I seem to have been a day late and a dollar short too many times --- and mostly, at my own fault. Although, the picture isn't actually my desk --- it sometimes feels as if I am not too far off of this mess!Being a start-up at Compendium it's been too common for me to get distracted with big picture conversations (i.e. - How business blogging will change the face on online marketing?) and personnel/procedure changes have also contribute to some time wasted. I am working on focusing on the day to day things that I need to do to introduce more prospects to Compendium and grow our client base --- and with some help from some new Salesforce reports and dashboards, have been trying to do just that.
So in saying this --- I also am trying to get more organized about blogging itself. It seems as if lately I either have so many topics to blog about or nothing at all and that steady stream of content that blogging for SEO needs is lost out on -- thankfully, there are many of my colleagues within Compendium that are stepping up their blogging game and luckily, with our unique software which allows for all of our content to compend into keyword driven blogs; my organization and time management woes don't impact our overall blogging success as much as if I was the lone blogger.
Here are some of the ideas I am hoping to use to organize my own personal blog entries and would love other suggestions that you all might use!
- Writing down blog ideas in the same place (whiteboard, notebook) rather than a million different places.
- Not writing for perfection the first go around...rather go back and editing the post 30 minutes later with a clear view.
- Sticking to my set aside 1/2 hour to blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays (and hopefully being inspired enough to get an additional post in over the weekend).
- Looking at my blog and other Compendium employee blogs before blogging --- What are some good ideas? Did I just talk about this? Is this relevant to the reader?
