SIX Blogging Tasks to Check Off of Your List Before Baby Arrives

Blogging Tasks to Check Off of Your List Before Baby Arrives

1.Time-Management – so you wont know when your baby has to poop, pee, eat by looking at a schedule, but you will know before the baby even arrives that there will be nap times. Try to plan out what you would do if you only have three hours a day (assume the rest of your hours will be spend doing other things). Plan that three hours to a T. Figure out how long it takes you to research and write a blog post. Figure out how long it takes to perfect a recipe. Whatever your niche is, time that stuff out, and plan the first three months after having that baby. It may feel like Groundhog Day for a while, but this will make things so much easier… just…. just trust me.

2. Get your Pinterest and Instagram (and any other social media accounts) ready to go! Have posts and pins saved, so each day you can spend a modest 10-15 minutes just posting or pinning. It shows consistency with your posting, and people who follow you will appreciate it.

3. Have a Dozen blog posts ready to go. So, for me, I wrote two blog posts a week instead of one, and then I only posted one… for the twelve weeks before giving birth I did this and so I had 12 weeks of blog posts covered and all I had to do was post one a week after baby. You can set a timer on your phone to remind you to post, even (not a bad idea, since you may not be sleeping, besides… new babies can do a number on your brain power).

4. Find a couple guest bloggers. There are some bloggers that will blog for a fee, or sometimes you can get someone to do it for free or perhaps in exchange for a post from you (which you could do before baby). Reach out to some of your fave bloggers in advance and find out what the protocol is to have them write for you (if that’s something they do). Filling with guest bloggers is awesome because it gives your readers new insights and may draw new traffic to another blog as well… WIN-WIN-WIN!

5. Create an email list IN ADVANCE (if possible). Try to wrangle a bit of traffic before baby arrives and get email addresses, so even if you have a small following, you can continue to provide them with your voice after baby is born.

6. Have your emails ready to send (at least a dozen) before baby arrives, so you just have to press send. For emails, I will often times just “sum up” a blog post or a dozen even, so I can add that to my email. I may include an affiliate or two that I love with a link to something I just bought, or just received as a gift, and then I have something else that people may appreciate to include. If you have a course, you can also send out info on that so you have some bullet points and not just a wasted email just sent for no reason. A dozen of these should cover you for about three months, until you have more ownership of your new baby-filled schedule.