How Do You Balance Your Time Between Creating And Marketing?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ryan asks about how he should balance his time between writing blog posts and marketing blog posts. The site I talk about today is Derek Halpern's Social Triggers: http://socialtriggers.com/, specifically the "Design is king" post: http://socialtriggers.com/content-is-king-myth/. Also, check out Help a Reporter Out: http://www.helpareporter.com/. Do you have a question about marketing your content? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What up?
0:07.0	What up, pat?
0:08.0	What up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 138 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today. As always, this episode wouldn't be here without the amazing Mindy.
0:21.7	On the other side, editing and putting all this together, Mindy, I know you're listening to this.
0:25.7	You rock.
0:26.5	She just had a birthday, so happy birthday, Mindy.
0:29.1	And I also want to thank today's sponsor, which is FreshBooks.
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0:38.8	like myself and like you, save time by doing things like making invoicing super easy for your
0:44.7	clients, for expense tracking, for tracking your income, all that stuff that's really, really
0:49.8	helpful all the time. I just wish I started with it sooner because I was using like Excel and a
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1:04.5	section for a free trial. So now let's get to today's question from Ryan.
1:09.7	Hi Pat. My name is Ryan.
1:11.4	I was wondering, how do you balance creating new pages for your site, which is what I
1:18.1	want to focus most of my energy on, trying to publish around three to four articles,
1:22.9	new articles per week, but how do you market those pages and stay on track? My content's good, and I'm sure
1:29.9	it will get shared in the future, but how do I balance those two out so I'm not spending too much
1:36.7	time on the marketing part of it? I would really just like to spend most of my time creating new
1:43.3	content. Thanks for all the help, and I just want to spend most of my time creating new content.
1:49.7	Thanks for all the help, and I just want to say you're doing a really great job. Keep it up.
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