Blogging part time while working a full time job requires careful planning, a desire to succeed and a willingness to exit your comfort zone.
Many full time employees who blog part time maintain busy schedules.
Part time bloggers who eventually go pro make blogging a priority.
Blogging offers you a way to work from home on your time.
Uncomfortable Venture at Times
Choose to follow your blogging dreams versus sprinting away from problems associated with your job. Making this distinction is critical to your blogging success.
Blogging part time never yields swift success since you have much to learn, study and practice before going pro well down the road.
1: Follow Your Passion or Trash the Blog
Passion pulls you past problems. Fun nudges you past fears. Either trash your passion-less blog or keep your passion-filled blog and allow your joy of covering the topic to energize you for a long journey.
Do not waste time picking a niche without assessing your passion test.
Blog your passion.
2: Make No Excuses
Part time blogger excuses make your job tougher than it has to be.
Excuses mentally handcuff you. Shed the handcuffs by remembering why you want to eventually blog full time. Remember your freeing driver to break the mental chains of self-imposed excuses.
Be gentle with yourself. Full time employees do mental gymnastics sometimes to worm past their limiting beliefs and to get the blogging work done.
3: Set Up a Blogging Schedule
Establishing a blogging schedule adds a sense of order to your part time blogging day. Perhaps you feel overwhelmed by the time demands of your hectic schedule. Blogging during specific periods goads you to get the job done.
Treat blogging like a job from a logistics perspective. Work at a set time to complete your tasks for the day.
Working a set blogging schedule adds order to the mind. Orderly minds impel bloggers to get the work done for laying a rock solid blogging foundation.
4: Create Detailed Content and Build Connections
Immense blogging success flows to bloggers who:
- create detailed content
- connect with top bloggers
Full time employees should spend most time creating blog posts and videos, commenting genuinely on blogs and promoting other bloggers to leverage their time effectively. You have limited time to blog; make every minute count. Detailed posts drive organic traffic passively. Blogging friends amplify your presence 24-7.
As a general rule, blog for at least 30-60 minutes daily to build success momentum. Even 30 minutes of effective blogging work executed daily lays a strong foundation for your blogging business.
Create long form content spanning 1200 to 1500 words to solve problems suffered by folks in your niche. Listen closely to their feedback. Do keyword research to optimize posts for SEO.
Promote top bloggers on your blog and through social media. Comment genuinely on their blogs. Befriend these pros. Observe pro blogging buddies promote your blog while you work full time, blog and sleep. Access the powerful leveraging potential of a tight knit blogging buddy network.
5: Invest in Courses and eBooks to Do Blogging Right
You work 40 hours a week. Can you afford to waste your blogging time? Nope. Invest in proven strategies that lay the foundation for a successful blog.
Investing in pro blogger’s course and eBooks lets you use your precious time effectively. Versus spinning your wheels for months you simply invest money in pro blogger advice, follow their lead and eventually transition from the work force to running an online business through your blog.
6: Open Multiple Streams of Income
Consider affiliate marketing for starters; hit the ground running by earning on the efforts of other entrepreneurs.
Other ideas include:
- coaching
- consulting
- freelance writing
- creating and selling online courses
- generating advertising revenue
Income streams are no big deal; see each as a simple receiving channel. All the dough flows from following steps 1-5. The biggest earners are incredibly passionate (tip #1) which makes them generous, patient and persistent, whether they began blogging part time or full time.
Part time bloggers need to leverage more than any blogger for the limited time they have to work with. Open multiple income sources to get the most bang out of the blogging bucks that you earn.
7: Never Look at Your Blog as the Escape Plan
If you hate your job allow your passion for blogging to fuel the journey. Do not see blogging income as an escape plan. Money responds terribly to attachment, desperation, greediness, delusion and all fear-energies common with a blogger who sees an inanimate object (money, blog) as the way out.
Part time bloggers lost in the process of helping people position themselves to quit their jobs and blog full time.
Be passionate about the process. Allow the outcome-dream to unfold at its own pace. You’ll get there.
Conclusion
Part time bloggers who work full time jobs can and do become professional bloggers.
Following simple tips persistently is the difference maker.
Don’t quit when the journey gets uncomfortable.
Think about why you’re blogging to nudge yourself through challenging but necessary blogging stretches.
Ryan Biddulph is the owner and creator of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.