Blog Day Planner

          Photo Credit: The Midnight Writer May 2009 Northern California

Life requires some planning and business takes a little more thought to make those plans. If you drive an automobile, you probably invest in some type of automobile insurance. It is common sense to protect yourself against the unexpected. People involved in accidents very often cannot afford the medical expenses for injuries or the damage costs to the vehicle. Smart planning will help financially and give you peace of mind.

Where do you begin to buy auto insurance ? There are so many choices in companies and providers as well as policies. You turn to professionals to help you choose the best policy for your financial and medical coverage needs. Together, you sit and plan the particulars of this new auto insurance coverage to create a policy that functions according to your needs.


Blogging as a business can be as daunting a task as buying automobile insurance  for your car. In the same way, a plan for your business can be made to meet certain criteria. Use the same techniques to plan your blogging business that you would use to buy insurance, or invest money, or remodel your home. Think about the unexpected and pencil them into the plan outline. Then find a professional in the field to seek counsel before finalizing your business plan. Take care with your life, your car and your business. Plan for it all.

The Midnight Writer

The process of organizing tasks and projects for your business can be a daunting undertaking.....unless you have a plan. I started this blog in hopes of researching business development planning strategies and maintenance strategies for my online blog business. Every day that I log onto the internet, I click on Blog Day Planner and think about ways to improve this process.

In Junior High School I took two year courses in Study Skills which taught me methods of organizing my ideas and how to focus. This training has stayed with me all my life. I constantly make notes and outlines, for everything! The only part of the training that was missing is the implementation. That's where I hope to improve by using this blog as a research tool and a follow through check point.

What types of methods do you use to help you focus multiple tasks and projects?

The Midnight Writer

Have you ever seen the ads for free business cards and actually ordered them? I have and they are not exactly what you expect. Avoid the scams and order business cards from a company that will give you what you are paying for at a reasonable price.

Who needs 100 business cards with the company logo for a company that you do not own? In case you didn't know, you'll be charged for the shipping, too. The free cards are not free after all.

Save time and money by going directly to a company that specializes in printing business cards. Check out 123 Print.com . I have browsed this site several times and I'm pleased with their styles and their prices.

In today's economy, it can be a challenge to find work. If you are looking for work in the administrative level then it is more challenging. Make your job search easier by utilizing all the online resources available to you. There is a place where you can find admin jobs without leaving home.  Find Administrative Jobs is a website that provides a search tool to help you find work.

It's a simple site that provides the tool where you enter your city and state to search. Narrow your search by providing zip code and Company name or keywords to positions that you are seeking. I tested the search bar for administrative jobs within 25 miles in Altoona, Penna. and found a listing for 24 jobs available in this region. Narrow your job search today using this tool. Save time and concentrate on getting results.

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It's goal setting time once again this year and I'm reviewing my income, my work habits, and all my freelance writing techniques. You would do well to re-evaluate your freelance writing business at least twice a year. This planner is a format that allows me to write, to plan, to evaluate and focus on any improvements that I could make in my personal business practices.

I came to the realization that time planning is a crucial element in any project, whether personal, civic or business. Taking that into consideration, my goal is to assess how I use my freelance writing time to discover how much I earn per hour. I want to improve my work habits to maximize my earnings and to increase my writing proficiency.

One thing that must remain intact is writing quality. Never sacrifice quality for any amount of money. Stay true to your style but be willing to try other styles. This practice will broaden your horizons and help you to discover whether your talent lies in other areas. Remember though, if you are a freelance writer, you are operating a business in which your time as a freelancer is valuable. After all, you want to get the most out of life so write in such a way that you will have more time in other areas of your life.

Maximize your earnings.
Free up your valuable time to allow for personal time.
Become more time efficient.

These are the goals for this fall. I hope to practice writing so that I will earn a minimum of $70.00 per day, every working day. For me, that will be six days per week to equal $420.00 weekly. Maybe I'll exceed that goal. For now, that involves writing 7 ten dollar articles daily, if that is all that I find in my task boards. Some days I'm very blessed to have $20 to $25 or $35 assignments. On those days, I'll exceed my goal because I am planning to write four hours every day for six days. That's a minimum. Some other time will be spent working on a novel, so I'm cutting out about 20 hours of blogging a week so I can focus on writing a chapter per week of my novel.

I'll post updates on my progress. Let me know how your goal setting lines up with your actual turn out this fall.

The Midnight Writer

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I have no idea why I even thought of this, but it was a question that came to my mind that I thought would make a good blog post. If you know the answer, please leave a comment below along with your email so I can contact you. Maybe you would be interested in writing a guest post on this topic. It will give you some free exposure with back links from my blog to yours.

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I suppose after a month in the mountains that I should really get back into the work mode, but I'm having a bit of trouble making the shift. That time without television, radio or internet helped me to take time to ponder and reflect while admiring nature. I performed tasks such as gathering wood, building fires, observing wild creatures, prepping my camp for the storms by securing tarps, tie offs and wooden poles that were holding up the tarps. Writing blog posts or ad reviews for companies was the last thing on my mind. Survival took top billing.

Now I'm out of the woods...no pun intended...it just came out that way. ...and I want to bring my online business up to par. There's a lot of work to do so I need to begin the planning phase.

Altogether, I have over 40 blogs, ten of them being main ones. My goal is to bring my major blogs to a place of being updated with the required minimum of 20 posts in 90 days. In my absence from the internet, some of my blogs fell below the minimum requirement. This is my first goal.

1. Update all blogs to the required 20 posts in 90 days. -track the progress of this goal. You can do this with your blogs and we'll work on this goal together. This is just an important task that it goes to the top of the list. Nothing else that I could do will have as great an impact as this one task in my freelance writing/blogging tasks. Let's make a chart of our blogs...I'll list mine here...you list yours on your blog day planner or whatever focus mechanism you use to monitor your freelance work.

Together, we'll make our regular weekly or daily posts. I'll do a daily update here to see if all the blogs are reaching their goal. You keep your records but please comment here to share your progress and techniques with us. I want to know about your posts- the topics, their length, photos chosen, your interests, whether it is a personal post or a paid post.

- Mountain Spirit Productions :

- The Midnight Writer : 4 posts completed.

- Blog Day Planner : 2 posts completed on August 5 & 8, 2009.

- Angels for Gabriel :

- The Midnight Writer's Journal :

- The Midnight Writer's Freelance Quest :

- The Midnight Writer's Cafe :

- The Midnight Writer's Secret Portal :

- Midnight Revelry :

- Blog U Back :

- Blog Me Back Too :

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I'm sitting by a lake in California just totally enjoying the peace and quiet that came just after midnight. Maybe that tells you why I like sitting up late at night to write. That midnight hour just seems to strike some magical chord that resonates throughout the night. It really inspires me to be creative.

An hour ago, voices were buzzing everywhere amidst the sound of opening and closing car and truck doors. The water was lapping harder against the shore because there were dozens of boats out on the water. The birds were calling out to muffle the sound of the engines. Then, almost all at once, the people drove away, the boats got quiet, the birds hushed and the water lapped softer against the shore. A lone dog gave a soft bark five minutes ago as if tempting the silence to be broken.

Nature. Solitude. After midnight. A special time.

Tonight, I have plenty of time to ponder what to do on my blogs in the coming week. I'll be writing a post here next on traveling in an RV this summer. Since I'm an avid traveler and freelance writer who lives on the road, this is the perfect opportunity to work it into my blogging plans. Naturally, we should share some RV news and experiences. My van is a camper van so it qualifies as an historic RV. (a little humor there)

The Midnight Writer

The business of internet marketing is a precise technical science that will determine the success or failure of your online ventures. Since the profound growth in the internet industry, companies have sprung out of the need to service all the marketers doing business online. This type of marketing takes a different approach in planning and ROI analytics specializes in this area.It takes industrial marketing insight and skill to know whether an online business will fail or succeed. They have experience in this area.

The interesting part of their service to me is the market analysis. I read that ROI analytics can determine how much money you are actually making in return for your investments. They determine this by running studies on your marketing website to find missed opportunities or poorly run campaigns. You can maximize all your investments with this system.

Sign up is free for one month without making any investment. ROI analytics believes in the effectiveness of their service so much they want you to try it risk free. I was surprised to find out you don't need a credit card or any money down and they claim there is no obligation. Completely free and risk free! I'm convinced that this system would be worth a try.

ROI analytics offers complete support services for their pro plan. Case managers offer personal help when you have a problem and they promise a short return time on all tickets, usually within a few hours. This is a fast feedback rate for any internet business that has a lot of clients. You can access their support forum to find answers to many questions or common problems that will arise.

If you work on the internet daily like me, then you know that programs run into problems that keep them from running properly. This is one area where ROI analytics can help troubleshoot. Customer service representatives can be reached by email and telephone. I also noticed that they have live chat available. This shows the company is accessible and their services are well managed.

The Midnight Writer

Setting intentions in anything that you do is very important in the success rate of carrying out any plans. This is the first step in bringing any plans to pass whether it be in business or family or personal life. Just setting a list of plans and steps to paper will not bring it to pass. First, you must set the intention in your mind then in your heart because it really does have to come from a place of passion within you.

Have you ever noticed how easily you are able to focus on and arrange plans say for a wedding of a friend or relative for whom you have a lot of love? Your heart and soul goes into the planning to make it the best event possible. Why is this? Because you are tapping into a passion within to bring forth events outside yourself.

It's almost like being able to perform some kind of magic, yet it is not magic. We all have the capability to achieve astounding things on all levels but first we must feel it, be touched by it then be strongly moved by it.

Have you read any miracle stories? How about stories involving people who have overcome great obstacles to achieve fantastic things? Or stories about recovery from terminal illness or from a natural disaster? These all tap into that same place in the heart that I am talking about...passion....that has to speak to the mind to will action.

Mel Gibson produced a movie called "The Passion of the Christ" because it took passion for Jesus Christ to make the sacrifice he made for all of mankind. That is the type of passion I'm am speaking about. It comes from a deep place of love inside each one of us that has to be tapped into and exercised. To achieve great things you must first desire it, then your heart needs to feel it which tells your mind to will it.

There are some great books on the subject, a few which I have been fortunate enough to have come my way. The Power of the Will was a book written in the very early 1900's. While visiting a friends farm in Ohio she loaned the book to me. She found it at a used book sale and it was quite a find being dated 1904. I read it,then I poured over it absorbing the books contents. I made notes on the precepts taught there and made intentional efforts to practice some of the principles to help develop my will. This book will be part of my fabric now because it has helped unlock that passionate place inside me to do things because they are worth the doing and because my heart tells me so.

Whenever I remember where I packed the book inside the van, I'll dust it off and share some excerpts here. It would be a great study for this blog day planner exercise of planning your blogging or other freelance writing or any business. It will help with personal changes that you desire to make inside your self. I can't wait to make this exciting journey.

My plans for today are fairly simple. Share my thoughts. Write as much as I can on my blogs to catch up. Work on some personal relationships and on rainbow events that move me. Cephas and I spent a very long day in the sun yesterday working on our van getting half a dozen major new parts put on to help us run better. We have a few miles to go with this van and we have realized that to keep it we need to love it and to have the passion enough to work on its complete restoration.

So follow along here as we build our selves, our blogs, our businesses and our van. Share your progress stories with us please on how you are learning to develop the potential that awaits inside you to help you actualize your dreams in life and love and work.

The Midnight Writer