About this episode
Do Schedules and Deadlines Help or Hurt Your Blogging?
Have you ever missed a deadline? Do you have a content schedule or editorial calendar for your blog? Yes, today’s episode is all about schedules and deadlines.
Whether you follow a daily, weekly or monthly schedule, does it allow you to produce the best content? What if you can’t come up with something good enough to publish?
I don’t have a schedule at all because it seems to be too limiting. I won’t publish anything unless I have something that’s worthwhile.
Am I doing the right thing? Or am I overthinking and over-worrying? Will my readers even care? Do they pay that much attention to what I do?
No rules exist, but here are some lessons I’ve learned from blogging:
Quality beats quantity: If the quality of your blog content is suffering, it won’t lead to long-term, sustained growth.
Quantity is still important: Don’t slow down so much that you hardly post anything; if you feel everything you write is second rate, that perfectionism will stop you from producing quality content.
Deadlines can help or hinder. They can be incredibly motivating for some bloggers, who do their best work under pressure. But for others, schedules and deadlines are crippling. Panic sets in, and stifles cr
