real blogging tips

Unless you have been living is a really deep hole secluded from the world then you have probably at the very least heard the world clamoring on about the very serious economic downturn. I am not writing a politically motivated post nor am I an economic genius. Although I find it a must to run a balanced budget at home and in my business life. This being said I think that if the downturn continues that bloggers should be safeguarding what they have worked for thus far by having plans in place to not only protect their online assets but also to safeguard their ability to continue to do what it is they have planned.

When things get tough fiscally speaking many once high held establishments will start to thin out and only solid businesses with solid plans that planned in advance will be able to continue to prosper. I want you as I always have to be one of those people. No matter where you are in the world the power of your idea can be phenomenal. Your delivery and style are important in getting off the ground, but now that you are you need to insure that you can continue down the path of success. Here are a few suggestions that history has taught us about conventional business that can be applied to the pro-blogger’s genre.

First Order Of Business

Make sure you have secured your hosting for at least six months into the future. While many upstarts will find this a bit troubling by having taken care of this you can focus on more important issues such as content creation and marketing. When your not doing that you should be looking for revenue generation to help cover new advertising oppurtunities as well as incurred expences. Most blogs run a seperate mailin list from the RSS subscription so something to consider is paying for your AWEBER services in advance as well.

You are now at the very least able to update your blog’s content whenever you can secure a live connection in a worst case scenario at a library or recreation center. Some people may already be overly finacially strained and it is not already uncommon for people to run their online businesses in this matter. WiFI hotspots also offer a great way to get on the net to conduct your daily business as well and usually are never to far out of reach. McDonalds, Wendy’s and BurgerKing all offer free wifi and if you have any hotel’s worth a grain of salt you can use theirs from the parking lot if needed. Although as a hotelier I invite you to call and just ask the desk clerk, many would much rather have you hanging out in the lobby sipping coffee than scaring off potential tenants in the parking lot.

By reducing your expenses as much as you can without sacrificing the needed services you will be in a much better position if things were to take a turn for the worst. The best plan is to be prepared and have spare capital on hand in order to cope with an otherwise out of your control situation.

Goals

The next plan of action you should be executing is to reavuluate your goals both as a brand, a blog and an individual. Obviously if keeping things going is to much of a hardship you already know what to do. In the worst case scenario I would advise you to secure some friendly “free hosting for your site and redirect your domain there. If anything were to happen to me god forbid I already have a safety net that would allow my site to stay active and aslong as I was alive to contine posting to it. Things like this will ease atleast one once of stress from you if the worse were to ever occur.

In most any other situation where its just a long and drawn out hardship in general where you may be eliminating uneeded expenses you may still have internet acess at your home but maybe not the 10mbit option you currently are exercizing daily. By getting frugal and eating out less you will already have provided the basic currency at this point to pay for something like the swamp package with hostgator and a decent sized account with aweber.

To further your situation you can start to pickup side work with your many talents that you already are using. Photoshop, sales copy writing, site flipping, paid posting, link selling, etc. Their are a plethora of ways to make money online and if and when the SHTF your competition will be greatly reduced becuast those who are prepared and have a plan in hand are indeed already smiling at the oppurtunity that awaits on the horizon either way.

Get your goals in order and start building a plan. Maybe the latest economic downturn does not affect your so instead having a plan for other natural disaster or out of country trips can be a good thing none the less. By recognizing the oppurtuninty for improvement and success much less fiscal growth you will most definately without a doubt be ahead of the blogosphere wide spread curve.

The Bottom Line

Economic hard times come and go through out history by securing a plan and setting realistic goals you can sail through choppy fiscal waters unabaited and quite happy. I highly suggest rechecking all your checklists and grabbing a back up plan while things look like they will rebound as usual it is always possible that we are just seeing the tip of the iceburg.

The true test of any business is how it will operate under the pressure of a bear market and any person who can succeed under those terms will be well prepared for anything that can happen.