Blog Day Planner

It sounds like we're getting ready to eat dinner, doesn't it?

That's almost true. I want to talk about prioritizing the servings on your freelance plate of work in your to do lists. How does that relate to eating dinner? If you prioritize and plan effectively, your freelance work will provide the maximum return in finances for your efforts.

And that means, you'll have larger portions to serve on your dinner plate! One of the places that people tend to cut corners when they are starting out in business as freelancers or independent marketers is in the "food allotment" column of their budget ledgers. With proper planning and follow through, income will increase and this column allowance will grow because there will be ample finances to cover the other expenses that keep you in business.

So go ahead! Plan a dinner out with that someone special! Pick up the tab with your smart planner funds and enjoy the delicious taste of wise freelancedom!

After your enjoyable dinner, come back for part one of Freelance Portions 101.

The Midnight Writer

Let's tally the progress made so far and see how I'm matching up to my goals. They are often more idealistic than realistic but I'm still learning how to make better project plans through the experience of my success and failures.

I failed to post my plans today because my husband Cephas is really ill with a kidney infection and kidney problems. He's in a lot of pain. Of course, I've pulled out the magic medicine from my herbal bag to help treat him. We mixed up the nettles tea and both of us have drank ample portions to help build and cleanse both our kidneys and body.

We're laid over at a truck stop in Twin Falls, Idaho because Cephas can hardly walk or sit up. I'm really concerned about him and I hope and pray that he recovers quickly. I watched over him most of today so I did not get much done on the internet. Maybe now I'll start where I should have been twelve hours ago. Too bad I'm feeling sleepy now so I'll probably write for an hour then catch some zzzzz'sssss.

My goals for today were to walk, write ten blog posts and five content articles. I've finished one blog post. My other intentions were to log into all the companies for whom I blog to check stats, list updates, add blogs and take on any work that was pending. I am going to have to defer a lot of this to later today since it is the wee hours of the morning.

Between the two of us, we dropped our Entrecards and approved advertisers and we checked emails. I found an article on Pay Per Post that doesn't meet the requirements so I'll be fixing that post tonight before I sleep. I wanted to take on a few more posts for them because they are a large part of my bread and butter. With Cephas ill, I need to write more to get us through this long trip coming until we return for the rainbow gathering in New Mexico.

Watch for blog posts on all my domain sites throughout today and tonight. Till later, I'm skipping to catch up to myself before I fall asleep. Have a great night.

The Midnight Writer

Any business that wants to be effective needs to exercise proper planning. Blogging is a business so it needs to be treated with the same professionalism as any business whether it's freelance, a franchise or corporate. If you want to succeed, learn effecutive planning then practice carrying out those plans. Treat the planner like a blueprint for a building.

So this platform is a learning exercise for me as well. If you are following along with the day planner and utilizing the same concept in your blogging or freelance business, then we will be learning to improve our discipline together. Every day is a new day and I start over. That is a healthy way to approach this exercise because there is no such thing as failure in a learning exercise.

Here's the rundown on my progress for this week.

This is early Thursday morning and for me the week end's Sunday morning then begins again. Let's call this the half way point. I guess I should have bought the odometer last week to keep track of my mileage in the running exercise.

I missed writing on the domain blog at Mountain Spirit Productions. In light of this realization, that will be the next place to post.

The Midnight Writer is my busiest blog because most of my regular clients as well as new ones request reviews there. It has the best page rank. I've written well over my quota for this week as I do most of the time so it is not a concern. In fact, I picked up two new clients for this blog this week already. However, I will still write a focus every week for it. Just because you are performing in an area does not mean you should stop planning and directing your focus.

This blog is the planner on which my goal was to write five posts this week. Right now I am writing number four. As you can see, it will surpass the goal. One thing to note is that I wrote two paid posts on this blog for Social Spark which I had not intended when the focus was written. Due to this can you guess what I am going to do? Yes, you're right! I'm going to write three more posts specifically geared to the blog day planner and hopefully I will write about one of the companies or resources that I use. Or I'll write a special post about some aspect in blogging. Give me a few days to think about that.

Both the Midnight Writer's Journal and the Freelance Quest have been completely neglected. I have to make a strong effort to meet the goal quota on posts and to bring these two important blogs up to speed. They are really important because several pay to blog companies have approved them for sponsored conversations and reviews.

That would be a good topic to discuss since I am so involved in this area of blogging. Don't you think? What would you like to know about blogging and sponsored blog companies?

The Midnight Writer's Cafe has received a little bit of attention from me because I wrote my first post there today, well yesterday technically. I planned a post every day because I am aiming to qualify for Smorty so I have to gain page rank. It looks like two posts two days in a row to make up for this one.

The Grand Central Station for all the blogs is The Midnight Writer's Blogs where I post all the finished work and talk about the different programs, companies and social sites. So far this week I have made two posts with ten planned. Again, I need a make up couple of days since I also planned some feature articles on this blog. As of right now, I'm not sure which programs or companies to feature.

Four other blogs in the line up are due for posts to include Midnight Revelry, Keep It Simple, the Secret Portal and Making of a Walking. One Tin Soldier has one post out of three. I need to find rainbow news updates. For Midnight Revelry I have some special silhouette images left to use. I always allow the images to inspire me.

This might be the week that I achieve my goal. How are you doing in keeping with your plans?

If you didn't already know it, I'm a professional blogger that writes reviews for clients and companies who pay me to review their clients. This is the new technological form of advertising. There is an amount of controversy that follows this new ad copy writing to promote services, products, people, books, professions and events. Until there is an ethical taboo in the blogging world, I will continue writing for clients. You know, I have to earn my coffee and chocolate some how!

Here's the skinny on my assignments for today.