How Do I Balance My Time Between Writing And Promotion?
AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design
Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today’s question comes from Aaron, who has been focusing intently on writing. How much time should he spend on promotion? The book Aaron mentions is The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (http://www.the1thing.com/). Check out the episode of the Smart Passive Income Podcast with Kimanzi Constable to learn about writing for news sites (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session145). I also mention this post on the FoodTruckr niche site: http://foodtruckr.com/2013/10/what-i-wish-id-known-before-starting-my-food-truck/. Do you have a question about promoting your content? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:01.0 | Ask Pat. |
| 0:04.0 | Ask Pat.com. |
| 0:06.0 | Dot com. |
| 0:07.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.0 | Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 295 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:16.0 | Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:17.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's today's question from Aaron. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi Pat. My name's today's question from Aaron. |
| 0:39.1 | Hi Pat. My name's Aaron from over in Australia. I've been building a website over the last 12 months and feel a bit stuck at the moment. I've read the book, The One Thing You Recommended, and I love the idea of focusing on one super important activity. So I've been trying to focus my time almost completely on writing high quality content. But at the same time, I have this feeling like I should be spending time, contacting other |
| 0:42.6 | bloggers, trying to build links or working on promotion. |
| 0:45.9 | So my question is, how would you recommend I spend my time between writing content and |
| 0:50.6 | work on other activities such as promotion? |
| 0:53.2 | Can I spend 100% of my time writing content or do I need to split my time up? |
| 0:57.8 | If you do recommend I split my time up, what activities are likely to produce the best return for my time? |
| 1:03.9 | Thanks, Pat. I'll be looking forward to any insights you have on this. |
| 1:07.9 | Hey, Aaron, what's up? Thank you so much for the question. |
| 1:10.4 | I love Australia. I have family in Brisbane, and I was there last year in 2014 for the pro blogger conference. I did their opening keynote, which was fantastic. And I am likely headed back there next year to do more just family-related things, not for any conferences. But, you know, for those of you who are in Australia, |
| 1:28.3 | look out for me on Twitter at Pat Flynn. I'll be talking about maybe doing a meetup or two |
| 1:33.2 | while I'm there this summer, which is your winter, interestingly enough. But anyway, |
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