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By Joan Stewart<\/p>\nBy Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
If you’re still not blogging because you’re not a very good writer, or you don’t have time to write, here’s an easy solution.<\/p>\n
Dictate your thoughts about a topic into a hand-held recorder. Then, find an assistant to transcribe what you’ve recorded and—voila!—you’ve got a blog post.<\/p>\n
I was talking to one of my clients, Harry Dennis of TEC\/Vistage, this morning, and he was commenting about how a few of his members blog but that most—all CEOs, company presidents and business owners—know they should blog but just don’t have the time. Some, he said, can’t write.<\/p>\n
He loved my idea about the recorder.<\/p>\n
If you think a transcribed version won’t be as “nice” as something you’ve written, get over it. One of the biggest impediments to blogging is perfection. When I started blogging at The Publicity Hound’s Blog,<\/a> I wanted my blog to be perfect but soon learned that posting frequently means other things have to fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 My biggest frustrations included:<\/p>\n —Not having time to link from within the blog to relevant websites that would interest my readers. All that linking takes a lot of time to check and double-check. So I don’t always link when I’m in a huarry.<\/p>\n —Not finding attractive photos and graphics to dress up the copy. I soon discovered stock photo services, and that solved the problem. But if I don’t have time to download photos, I don’t. The search engines can still find the content, however.<\/p>\n —Not having enough time. I try to make it a habit to blog first thing in the morning when my mind is freshest.<\/p>\n —Not being able to do all the research I want to do when I write about a certain topic. I’ve learned that mixing short posts with long and medium-size ones seems to keep everybody happy. Everybody, it seems, is pressed for time, and readers like short posts, too.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 What are your biggest frustrations that are either keeping you from starting a blog or from blogging more often? Have you found shortcuts to blogging that you’d like to share? Is there anything about blogging that makes you crazy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Joan Stewart If you’re still not blogging because you’re not a very good writer, or you don’t have time to write, here’s an easy solution. Dictate your thoughts about a topic into a hand-held recorder. Then, find an assistant to transcribe what you’ve recorded and—voila!—you’ve got a blog post. I was talking to one\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-14238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-social-media-productivity","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42006,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions\/42006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat frustrated me<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhat’s frustrating you?<\/strong><\/p>\n