How Much Content Should I Have Before My Blog Launch?
AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design
Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today's question comes from Chris, who in the process of launching a website with a blog. How much content should he have prepared before launch? Here is the FoodTruckr launch post I discuss: http://foodtruckr.com/2013/10/what-i-wish-id-known-before-starting-my-food-truck/. Do you have a question about getting started? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:04.0 | AskPath.com. |
| 0:10.9 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.9 | Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 709 of AskPath. |
| 0:15.9 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:17.5 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. |
| 0:21.5 | All right. Now, here's today's question from Chris. |
| 0:25.0 | Hi, Pat. Thanks for taking my question. And thank you for all that you do. It's been very helpful. |
| 0:30.6 | My question is this. How many blog posts should I have ready when I launch my new blog? |
| 0:37.1 | My blog's going to have several pages that reflect different sub-interests of my topic, |
| 0:44.3 | my About Me page, and some others. |
| 0:47.3 | So I assume I'll have one post for each of those pages, and then I'll have several in the bank |
| 0:53.3 | so that I can get my feet under me and promote it in the social sphere for a while and I'll have to worry about generating new content. |
| 1:04.2 | Let me know your thoughts on this and thanks again. |
| 1:08.5 | Hey Chris, thank you so much for the question. |
| 1:10.4 | Congrats on the recent launch or the upcoming launch of your blog, depending on when you listen |
| 1:15.6 | to this. |
| 1:16.6 | And I hope for all the best. |
| 1:18.6 | And it sounds like you know a little bit about what you're doing already because you should launch |
| 1:22.6 | with more than one post and it sounds like you already know you should do that. |
| 1:25.6 | And the reason why you want to launch with more than one post is because you don't want to make the same mistake that I did, which is you launch |
| 1:31.6 | with one post and maybe you do some promotion, you get people excited about it, you have a list of people |
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