Do you maintain a job and blog at the same time? How do you handle your online business if your days are hectic? You can keep up your blog from your mobile phone.
If you still combine your blogging activity with a day job, some days will be so hectic that you don’t find the strength to turn on your PC and check out a few things on your blog. You could have a couple email messages waiting to be replied, a hand full of comments to be moderated and possibly reply. But you get so worn out you can’t bring yourself to log on your computer. Maintaining a day job and blogging (online business) can be challenging. You sometime feel like you can’t possibly achieve that goal of quitting your job for your online business some day (if you hope to).
How I handle my Job and Blogging
Personally, I don’t have a job to manage (I never did, since my graduation from the university). I developed some construction experience during industrial training and national youth service. So once in a while I voluntarily help a friend manage his building construction sites when he has more than one contracts to handle. I find myself completely worn out after a long day working and supervising workers under the scorching sun. This normally takes weeks in more cases or months in fewer cases. So apart from internships and industrial training, that’s the most job experience I’ve had (it’s a personal choice though).
In several periods of handling such jobs, it doesn’t stop me from performing blog activities after the hectic days. Some days on the job, I’ll take a break and do some blogging on my phone. Since I started my blogging career on a mobile phone (with a Nokia 3230), it’s kind of fun (checking on your business from your phone).
Blogging after a hectic day
Being that worn out after the day’s job, your work efficiency could be quite low to do some major blogging tasks. In which case you’ll want to spend a little time to do the less involved but profitable tasks on your online business and save the main work when you are all new and shiny. Here are a few of the blogging tasks I do on my mobile phone after a hectic day.
Fix in-house comment section.
For me, hectic day or not, I seldom moderate or reply to comments on my blog from a PC. I do this mostly from my mobile phone on both my wordpress and blogger blogs. Even after a long day it doesn’t take much extra work to open the comment section on my dashboard on phone to delete spam and approve new comments. After which I head over to the blog posts and reply to comments. Little task but saves time for the next day.
Read and comment on other blogs
This is more like the last thing I do before I sleep off at night. I admit there are days I get so tired, that all I want to do is take a shower, dinner and go to bed, but I’m not that good at sleeping off quickly no matter how tired. So I almost always have to look over a few things on the blogosphere from my mobile phone. It doesn’t seem like work but you are casually building your online business and developing relationships with other bloggers. Some use this time to play a few games, lol on facebook and such. You can also us this time to do little things that matters to your blogging career.
Check and reply some emails
I also use this time to check my inbox, skim through the messages and reply to ones that doesn’t require much tactical response. Some messages require that you be in your full work mode to respond to brilliantly. In such cases I skip such messages to check and respond to them when in my full blogging state.
Edit Mobile drafts
I don’t know if you do this but I start a lot of my posts from mobile phone; from drafting the post idea to writing parts of the post. That was how I came blogging (with a phone). I started this post on my phone while trying to sleep off and had to move it to my computer with a PC Suite by morning for editing and publishing. In one of those stressed up days, I dig through my half written posts to proof read and do a little bit of editing. People play games, chat, and do a lot of fun thing on their mobile phones. I build my online business on my mobile phone. That sounds like more fun to me.
These are little things you can do for fun, but will make a lot of difference. The most important thing is that you gain some extra time.
How do you handle your online business after a hectic day? Do you just let things be till the following day? Do you maintain your online business from your mobile phone? I’d love to know if I’m all alone on this one
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Hehe.. It’s a good thing you have your phone to supplement. Imagine what it’d be like to move around with a batteryless laptop.. I never planned to do much blogging on my phone either until I had no better choice.
Thanks for the comment Graham. It’s good to know I’m not alone..
Master of mobile blogging. Thanks a lot for this tips 🙂
I do so much from my phone too! Until yesterday, I had a laptop that didn’t have a battery so it had to be plugged in at all times…not great for running around.
I’ve done so much on my phone its not even funny. I look at my google reader and visit/comment on blogs from it all the time!
this is just great. I couldn’t think blogging from cell phone..
great work.
Thank for the comment Atish. Blogging from mobile phone is the best thing I’ve ever done online..
Hi Ikenna,
I don’t do any work from my mobile phone but see the immense power in it. You can perform many acts in a short amount of time: leveraging!
I’m more of a laptop guy. Even though it takes a while to log in I still enjoy the portability and comfort of typing. Might have to buy an iPhone soon though 😉
Thanks for sharing!
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
Exactly, working from a laptop is more fun. it’s the leveraging factor on mobile phone that counts. An iPhone will do 🙂
Thanks for the comment..
Great post! I do some blogging through my phone…which is a new thing for me because I just upgraded to a smart phone for the first time. I use a Samsung Nexus 4G. The part I like the most is this phone is integrated with Google voice recognition technology, so i can actually speak my comments on blog posts and reply and the phone will type it out for me.
I think more and more phones will move this way as we develop greater technology. It is a really helpful key. I’ve also started minimizing my sites so they will render better on phones.
Thanks.
Wow Steve! You’re really doing it better than i do. The Google Voice recognition tech “on mobile phones” gotta be something. It’ll be handy to get a phone with such awesome tool. Saving a lot of time and all.. I’ll go ask Google to learn more about it.
Thanks for the interesting comment. Glad to know there are other bloggers that leverage their online business on the go..
Hi Ikenna, I don’t know where I would be without my cell phone! I am on the road all the time and my phone is a very important business tool. As a business owner you have to troubleshoot and solve problems that are unexpected and by having a cell phone you have access to your business where ever you are.
Hi Karla,
Me neither. I once left home without my wallet but not my phone.
The ability to reach your business, regardless of where you are, is simple priceless.
Love your comment.
Hi Ikenna, I use my iPhone to mostly write quick drafts and moderate comments whilst I’m at work or away from the desk which is handy, great post thanks.
Hi Samantha,
Exactly. That’s a smart way to maintain your online business..
It’s nice to have you on my blog.
Thanks for the comment..
I don’t like using my phone to blog because the screening is not that big and it doesn’t make my work faster.
Hey Uti,
It may not offer a relaxed blogging environment but a smartphone is a good auxilliary tool for me to fairly hook up with my blog when far from a PC. I’ve seen a lot other bloggers doing the same.
Any way it’s a matter of preference.
It’s good to have you around.
As for the smartphone, I prefer that and I am beginning exploit my BB for blogging. But it isn’t hurray yet! Network connectivity is another problem am facing trying to use phone – still searching for network that will work perfectly for that purpose.
If I may ask, what network are you using for phone browsing and how reliable is the network?
yes… even I use the same method (using mobile while travelling to and from workplace) to maintain my blog. However now we are having an option to go for tablets… soon planning to get an ipad which will help me to manage my blog better.
thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, Ikenna.
That’s true. More sophisticated handheld devices makes it a lot more easier to blog on the go. An iPad will help blog better.
without mobile phones i can,t live because most of the time i will manage my online business through cellphone and cellphones are the most important tool for my business.
I’ve done so much on my phone its not even funny. I look at my google reader and visit/comment on blogs from it all the time!
I wish i could do this, but its always so hectic
Am fairly new at this blogging stuff but I love it and intend to stick to it, the stuff I just read here is really great. Am about to purchase an I phone so it’s blogging all the way for me.
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Nice tips! When you are very busy to actually log in the system and spend some time on your blog, the smartphones are the solution.Thats why bloggers should have a decent smartphone with browsing capabilities