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I formerly believed that going solo meant blogging death.
Teamwork made the dream work.
Or so I thought.
But I gradually gained experience. I looked closely at my blogging strategy. I looked closely at highly successful solopreneurs who experienced immense freedom from being a one man band. Each built effective systems, fueled the systems with their singular work, then enjoyed freedom from time and location as their success accelerated exponentially. Every one still worked with people *but at that own preferred time.*
Please do not overlook that critical distinction.
Make no mistake about it; these lone wolves work plenty. But their work became singular.
For example, current day me is pretty much a blogging one man band. I publish a heavy volume of content daily. I usually write and publish 1-2 blog posts daily for Blogging From Paradise Dot Com. I create dozens of updates for:
- X/Twitter
- Threads
- BlueSky
I disseminate updates through a little under 25 marketing channels via the above marketing streams.
I reply to folks who engage me via these platforms.
That is it.
No employees here.
My blogger outreach strategy is no longer time dependent. If I reply within 2-3 days, awesome. If not, my content and 82,000 blog backlinks send hungry blogging tips readers here around the clock. Since my blogging system – creating a crap load of helpful blogging tips – sends bloggers here 24-7, 365, I enjoy freedom from time and location. I work but when I want to. I do not remain perched over my laptop to reply to folks at 2 AM. I do not remain hunched over my Chromebook to check email at midnight.
Why would I tie myself to time and location if my content and loyal readers do the work for me?
I certainly create oodles of content and reply to resonant readers yet at my own leisure.Â
I am a blogging one man band.
Not only is this OK, it is a prerequisite to being free from time and free from location.
Entrepreneurs Build Assets
Entrepreneurs build assets which work for them around the clock.
Everyone else looks for work or sacrifices years of their time to build a business.
I am not against sacrifice. Knock yourself out.
I am for freedom.
Being free and having fun is easier, more peaceful and more enjoyable than being bound, stressing, straining, striving and trading time, work and location for money.
When Did I Get My Wake Up Call?
I did not get my wake up call all at once.
I slowly realized how people who NEED you steal your time. By NEEDING, I mean folks displaying a low level of emotional intelligence. Arrogant folks. Entitled folks. Impatient folks. People who believe that the customer is always right. People who believe that you owe them because they asked a question. People who ditch you and your blog because you did not reply or did not reply quickly enough.
I asked myself this: “Do I want my reader base to be people who did not get enough love from mommy and daddy?”
No; I do not.
Do I want my reader base to be:
- ambitious
- driven
- emotionally intelligent
- appreciative
- grateful
hungry MFers who are just like me, do not NEED me, do not NEED my replies?
Yeah; I want them.
These are the types of folks who’d help give me freedom from time and location because working a system – in my own time – would send these folks to my blog on a conveyor belt.
But how would I go about getting ’em?
What would my system be?
Publishing content to my blog and offsite sources made sense to me.
A light bulb went off in my mind. Happiness followed.
I could work a system and align with confident readers to become completely free of time and location.
Wow?
Sounded sexy to me.
Of course, some needy folks would pop up on the horizon but if they left in a huff, my system, and not their complaints and my apologies (and groveling to their impossible levels of arrogance and self-importance), became the source of my success.
The nightmare of attempting to control how other humans thought about me – an impossible task even for ascended masters let alone non-enlightened types – could officially be lifted.
When you are a blogging one man band, your peace of mind, freedom and success depends on you. Specifically, each hinges on the blogging system that you choose to work.
Systems Work for You
Systems exponentially increase amplified success over the months – then years – as people come and go for a myriad of reasons.
Systems help the right people as you enjoy:
- success
- freedom from time
- freedom from location
Doesn’t that sound grand?
The Upsides of Being a Blogging One Man Band
Do whatever you want, wherever, whenever, as you patiently work your blogging system.
Experience freedom from time, freedom from location and the peace of mind consistent with being the shot caller in your life.
Peace and freedom are our birthright.
So yeah…..that.
What Are the Downsides of Being a Blogging One Man Band?
Running your show entails a great deal of work to prime the system pump. Building your content creation system takes time. But if you planned to be around for that stretch of time I deem it an investment in freedom and not sacrifice or loss.
Either you trade time for something or you invest work and time to be free of time.
But I will call the work a “downside” to alert bloggers; you will need to get after it confidently, calmly and consistently for months then years.
One other downside involves developing the emotional intelligence to release critical, attention-hungry individuals. You know who I mean. Some demand replies within minutes or 24 hours. Running to reply sets a dangerous precedent. Developing sufficient emotional intelligence to observe your guilt-heavy thoughts entails feeling fear, looking past fear and *not* choosing to reply to the can of worms that is the individual’s mindset, including highly needy demands.
Basically, you want none of that smoke. But relying on your system and not emotionally injured folks feels highly uncomfortable for most of us, at least the first few times.
One other downside; growth potential hits a ceiling. Entrepreneurs build companies and massive friend networks to scale to epic levels.
But my mentality is this: if I am free, comfortable and peaceful, I’d rather do things my way. I need not more in the world. I already feel amazing. I already have everything I want. I am free. How do you add to freedom when you are freedom? See what I mean?
Bringing people into the fold on a time-dependent basis slowly removes freedom, comfort and peace from the equation because you become beholden to them in some way, shape or form.
I work my system and let it offer me freedom.
I prefer to be a blogging one man band.
One Important Point as I Sign Off
I need to use terms that you understand.
I love you all. I really do.
Using words like “needy people” or “arrogant folks” or “people who did not get love from mommy and daddy” is calling it how it is on a level of form. I can love someone and say that it *is* arrogant to demand a reply from me because demanding anything *is* entitlement, egocentric and quite insane. I prefer to align with ambitious people who use their noodle to visit my blog and to get the blogging answers in their own time.
Gotta go….
I got systems to work!
