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5 Top Questions You Should Answer Before Starting a New Blog

imageStarting a new blog in a caprice may not always be a great idea. Every aspect must be taken care of before realization of plan.  Here we will illustrate few questions that should be properly analyzed beforehand, this could result in a cessation of an attempt to fire up a project that can only incur loss in the long run:

  1. What Are My End Goals With The Project:

    First Decide what is the scope of the blog? Will it serve a very large participants spanning over variety of subjects? Or will it be a small one with particular focus on few specific topic.

  2. Things to Reach The Goals:

    Strong Base is prerequisite of any substantial investment. To reach up to the goal , few things can be done, such as if you choose to serve a small group of blogger, you have to build up an energetic forum, and through blogging process you must be able to convert these bloggers into forum member. But to do that, you may confront obstacles such as your inexperience in promoting a forum, you might have to open blog topic on which you are not that well conversant, or may be that you fear the topic you want serve is already served by some other blogging site. These are some of the blockades, but not so intransigent that you can not overcome. The ideal thing would be to break up these chunk and proceed accordingly.

  3. Having Enough Ideas and Inspiration:

    Ideas are heartbeat of a blogging site. You must be able to constantly think up new form of topic and must be willing to write about those. Though it may seem difficult to do on a constant basis, but this is the thing that will keep your site alive. You should be able to think about high number of contents in a short span of time, and even before starting, you must be able to write down fully about six to seven topic. Then you know that you may be able to sail the ship.

  4. Time Management:

    It is also an important part of overall business. If you are going through more than one project, you must be able to divide your working time as such that you can conveniently carry out your blogging tasks, without hampering the other project. Remember to find The Balance between Blogging and Daily Life

  5. The Impact on that other project:

    This question clearly arises out of the previous one. It may seem that, it may hurt the other project, but if you are launching a new blog site, and your other project is already on the run, then you may think of sacrificing some time out of that to invest in the new one, that may be worth giving a try. But if you can see if it is possible to take the time out from something of not great importance. Thus managing both the projects properly in the end.

The Balance between Freelance Work and Daily Life

image Life can be hectic with work and stuff! But even from that tightly scheduled cage of responsibilities, people must bring out some spaces for the fulfillment of those other responsibilities, without which the true joy and satisfaction of life is lost, is perished.

Freelance work, when started, is relatively of slow progress, but when things do pick up, you start to get a lot of clients, then the real turbulence start to crop up, you do not seem to find enough time that you can spend with your family, you do not find enough undivided moments to play with your children, you do not seem to find that extra hours to spend in gym, cause you are so furiously busy with keeping the customers gratified and managing new contracts, however, you want to move away for a little while, but you fear the loss that can be incurred, you fear to lose the focus, and you know you can not let this happen, you become more and more involved, ignoring all other tasks; and days go on, time passes on, slowly and gradually, relationships start to soar, health starts to attenuate, social life seems to break down, and suddenly, you find yourself in a sate of never ending ambivalence, you now understand that it is too late, the threshold has been breached, the damage has been done.

The above paragraph delineates a scary projection right ? You should not let his scenario to transpire in your life, you must know how to balance your freelance work life and personal responsibilities. Below are some tips to follow :

The Effects of Good Article Writing

This post is guest blogged by Asif Karim.

imageArticle Writing is an art and it is a hot job in Freelance Market. The faculty to construct an admirable and classy structure solely of words is something that not everyone is equipped with, and the individuals possessing this flair must also hone himself through incessant practice and perseverance, if he truly desires to arrive at the apogee of fluency. This interminable process then radiates multitudes of benefactions aside from skill enhancement; and this article is meant to be shed an illumination on some of these advantages.

  • Self Gratification: This is one of the most crux aspect around which the love of writing revolves. Each and every word in the article is a direct reflection of your mental plate, and with these words decorated in a sound order, the confluence you create is a perfect stature of your heart and mind; ultimately gratifying your feelings, making you content and happy.
  • Shaping Up Character: Yup, this is very true. This effect may not be perceivable in short notice, but over the time, with the continuation of writing proficient articles, you unconsciously begin to feel the moral inside you, slowly shaping up your habits and life-style in accordingly; ultimately moulding up your own character to reflect the goods of humanity.
  • Promotion: If your article really manages to scratch a mark on reader’s mind, then that’s it, he’ll be pretty much satisfied within himself and will thank you unconsciously, and will share the article with everyone, and after sometime you’ll see your writing everywhere, with your name being on it shining high.
  • Regular Viewer: Once your article has managed to catch attention, then there will always be a a group of regular reader for you. They’ll eagerly wait for your product and will not be hesitant of promoting you and appreciating your work to others. And you will continue to expand your writing wizardry among variety of journals and publications.
  • Respect: You will undoubtedly earn a good deal of respect from your regular reader, they will believe in what you say, and will not hold back contacting you for any relevant advice. This will not only give an extended contact list, but also boosts up your self-esteem.
    So, a worthy article is worthy of a lot of substantial side-benefits. Not only it will improve your own-self, it’ll help you to promote your work automatically, it’ll earn you a lot of true followers and respect among writing circles.

5 Questions to Ask Before Become a Full-Time Freelance Writer

This post is guest blogged by Asif Karim.

image Freelance writer is a person who pursues a writing profession without a long-term engagement to any one employer. One of the great advantages of this profession is that they enjoy a diverse flavour of assignments and can manuevor their work routine at will, which itself allures a great amenity that is not seen in regular professions. Once established, it can provide incomes greater than that of a regular profession.

However, there are disadvantages also associated with this issue, the obvious one is the uncertainty of getting enough job, directly affecting the income. Also the work load sometimes fluctuate at a considerable scale. However, once the network of clients are tightly knitted, pretty much consistent income usually turns up. The spice that spurs up a freelance writer is the love of writing.

So, Do you really want to delve into this initially unpredictable and challenging profession? If you have, then first clear yourself about the following realities:

  • imageIs Writing Something That You Really Enjoy: Ok, let the deal set straight, first and foremost, you must be able to enrapture your writing sessions, you must feel satisfied by orchestrating an article with your own words and accurate grammar and with your very own writing style. Because this is the thing that you will continue to do basically on daily basis, and you must be able to process high number of assignments is short span of time, if you really want to make a good living out of this career. And things can become big on you, but you still must enjoy because if you really do not enjoy, is just forced to write something, understandably you will not be able to churn out quality stuff. As a result clients may not be contented enough thus hurting your own agenda.
  • Coping Up With Varying Roles: It can very well be that you are a track-star in writing, amazingly accomplished and vastly equipped with ideas and metaphors, but you must have those other skills also, requisite in most business in our day to day lives. You entail knowledge in accounting, sales and customer handling department. For example, to manage customer over a boiling issue, you must be adept at treating the customer properly, you also need to keep a tight reign on payments issues, accounting skill plays an important part here, you also need to promote yourself and your work incessantly, requiring the art of salesmanship. If all these gel together with your writing talent, your freelance profession will surely fly off with great celerity.
  • Must have Saving under Possession Before Starting: Your career will not start with great influx of income that’s for sure, unless otherwise. So, to go through that initial ordeal, you must have some kind of saving intact. Number of months or even years may needed to be consumed before you become the star choice of clients seeking the service. So, play smart, be realistic and pile up some funds before you take off.
  • Being Organized, Self-Driven and Motivated: Nobody is your Boss here, Nobody will insist you to do things, nobody will keep coming at you just to check the progress of the work. It’s all about you in this professions of freelance writing. So, the motivation must germinate from inside. You must have that self-driven streak in your nature towards your job. You must keep yourself abreast about the delivery schedule, client requirements and hiring new contacts. It really takes a lot of organized planning and motivation from your own-self to keep on top of all these.
  • Balancing Life & Work: Sometimes due to the pressure of work, you may lost count of your own life and your commitment towards your family. May be you are looking to make money all the time thus disregarding your other obligations. Later on this carelessness in return can proliferate into more complicated hurdles. Thus you must be able to draw out a nice balance between your working schedule and personal spaces.

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