Writing Powerful Resource Posts is Time Consuming
Posted on November 2nd, 2008, in Blogging | No Comments »
I recently finished writing up and posting a resource post on College Crunch about Fifty-Two Starting Salaries for Careers, and it took me nearly a week to research, write, organize and promote. The actual article itself wasn’t too bad, but we wanted to make sure to have many of the interconnecting pages complete, and we hadn’t built them out yet.
It is quite a process writing up a list that goes beyond the normal ten or twenty items, and I give big kudos to those that put in the extra effort. It goes back to something I said in my speech at WordCamp Toronto, if your post isn’t easily replicate-able or beatable by your competitors, it will do better, and that, so far, has definitely held true for this post.
While it was very time consuming, we are already seeing huge dividends which make the time spent worth while. Will I be writing more longer resource related posts over the coming weeks and months? You can definitely count on it, though I will need to recuperate for a while before doing another one as they are much more draining than normal day to day work.
I recommend that everyone working on a blog, take some time, and put together a resource post of more than fifty items or three thousand words and see what it does for your blog.
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