What’s Your Blogger Timesheet? Part 2
Posted by Patrick on October 28th, 2007
7 days ago I posted What’s Your Blogger Timesheet Part 1, saying I would count the time I spend working for PiggyBankPie.com during 1 week. In order to track my time efficiently, I listed a series of activities in which I logged my daily entries. Here’s a recap of the activities:
- Stats Consultation
- Read other blogs
- Reply to emails
- Write Posts
- WordPress Administration
- Development (coding)
- Marketing Activities
- Browse the Internet (blog related)
- Record/Edit Podcast/Videocast
- Troubleshooting
- General Administration
How much time do you think I spent this week working on this blog?
What’s my daily average?
Which activities are taking most of my time?
If you’re considering launching your own blog and you think blogging is easy and requires just a few hours a week, well let me just tell you that You’re Wrong! Blogging takes LOTS of time, even for a part-time Blogger like me who collaborate with 4 other writers.
Here’s my weekly timesheet:
- Stats Consultation: 2.25
- Read other blogs: 3.5
- Reply to emails: 1.5 (I’ve had busier weeks on email)
- Write Posts: 4.5 (don’t forget… we’re 5 posting for PiggyBankPie.com)
- WordPress Administration: 2.5
- Development (coding): 1.5
- Marketing Activities: 4.5
- Troubleshooting: .5
- General Administration: 0
- GRAND TOTAL: 20.75 hours
- DAILY AVERAGE: ± 3 hours
So if you have a full time job averaging 40 hours a week + you spend 1 hour a day in traffic + you wish to maintain a part-time blog, we’ll you’re in for quite a ride: roughly 65 hours a week. Now my goal is not to discourage New Bloggers, if you want to blog, go ahead and blog, there’s room for more. But just keep in mind that if you work full time and you’re planning to produce one [quality] post a day, chances are you’ll need to free up some time by cutting somewhere else.
What about Pro Bloggers maintaining and posting on multiple blogs? I think they’re workaholics. Yaro Starak from entrepreneurs-journey.com kindly replied me something that says it all:
“Thanks for your offer, but I’ve got no time to be tracking my time :-)”
So, how much time do you spend each day or week working on your blog(s)? Please feel free to comment.
PatBiz
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October 29th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Timesheet? Now that’s one thing which is a bit hard for me to produce. I’ve only started blogging regularly about 3 months ago, starting with a blogspot account and then moving on to my own website.
My target is to post at least one entry a week due to my quite busy schedule (work, training, social activities, not to mention the occassional periods of laziness.. Hey, I have a life too, you know. Hehehehe..) and as I drown myself more into this blogging life, at least one post a day.
By then, maybe I can come up with a decent weekly timetable comparable to the one you have above
October 29th, 2007 at 3:16 am
That’s the way to Start. This Timesheet is inspired by many years of IT consulting, so I’m a bit use to this template
But think about it, running a blog is like running a business. You post, right. But you do marketing, development, R&D is some ways (when you dig deep for articles), general administration… I definitely see my blog as a business. But a fun one!
Thanks for commenting on this post.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Hi,
Good post. Honestly, with me it is an hour a day and somedays nothing. I run a blog with multiple authors so it really gives me the freedom of maintaining it. Almost all of them are familiar with Wordpress.
Thanks
Al
October 29th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Hello Althaf, same strategy here. I really appreciate the contribution with the group of writers. As you are saying, I can concentrate on other things like Marketing and WP maintenance.
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
PatBiz
October 31st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Hi Pat,
Great to know that. Since it was my first visit, I really didnt notice you had multiple authors. We think alike.
Good luck Friend!
Al
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