How To Make Time To Grow A Successful Blog When You Have A Full-Time Job

If I had not started my blog, I am not sure where my business would be right now. Even while working a full-time job I was able to blog part-time to generate 10K a month. It was not easy but I was able to keep it growing. Most people hesitate to start a blog because they have a family, running the kids to and from activities, other relationships around you makes you feel as if you don’t have time for one more thing.

How bad do you want it

Everyone has 24 hours in a day and everyone can learn a new skill. It simply means you have to carve out time to listen to training audios and actually write on the blog. People who start one but aren’t able to keep it up hasn’t really committed to the results it can bring you. We all can make excuses. We all have busy days and down days. It is rare that someone runs full steam ahead from the sun up to the sun down.

If you can tell me what the weekly shows are on TV. Then you have time to blog.

Be honest with yourself

I worked 6 pm at night to 7 am in the morning for 21 years. I had a 30 minute lunch break, and there were many nights I wanted to sit in a quiet space and just breath, I also knew that I didn’t want to be sitting on the night shift for another 10 years and in order for that to change I had to make a small shift in the quiet times I had. I used my time in bed to sleep and rest, I used those little moments sitting at the school waiting for the boys to get out, and on my lunch break to turn a thought into a blog post. Using this time alone gave me 3-4 hours of time that I would have been sitting and staring into to non productive space.

The number one thing I knew for sure… I wanted to change how my life looked and I was willing to give up that time to blog for my business.

What are your time wasters

Problogger said in one of his posts: “According to Neilsen statistics, the average person in the U.S. spends over 30 hours each week watching TV and movies. And, it doesn’t end there. According to AdWeek, adults spend over 10 hours a week on their personal social media accounts.”

That is 40 hours of time you could blog and run a very part-time business and if you stayed focused you would have 20 hours left over for yourself!

Short gaps include time before you have a meeting or a phone call, a gap before you pick up your children from school, time while you’re waiting for food to cook, and so on. I had a blackberry that was always in my pocket and I would use the notes section to write a blog post and email to myself or I would jot down ideas and notes that I could pull together when I got home that morning.

Passive Income

People overlook simple opportunities to make income. Affiliate marketing is where you can promote someone else’s program or classes and get a commission from the people you bring to the table from someone else’s work. Of course, I make sure it matches my audience and my brand or it would be odd to promote it.

Not everyone wants to build big training platforms or write books or be the presenter of a webinar. However, you can promote for other people and they will pay you to do so. That alone, while I was still working, was an extra $500-1000 a month. I used that money to pay for the tools I needed to run my business so it didn’t come out of the family budget.

Promotion

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