Writing vs. Marketing

[bbrian017]

I'm about 90% marketing and 10% writing!

I'm really bad bad I don't like to write! haha I make a bad blogger!

[McMatt]

Do you think your 90/10 is more, less or equally true with other platforms like Twitter?

[vietguy3o3]

I think I'm 40/60 for writing/marketing. I am in the beginning stages of my blog so I am trying to get the word out as much as I can.

[5mgandy]

I work in the digital marketing industry so my purpose of blog writing might be different then yours. My goal for my blogs is to provide on topic relevant backlinks to my site. In addition the new content keeps the website fresh. To me any traffic I receive is bonus but I would say I spend roughly a couple of hours a week to promote the blog and maybe two hours to write a couple of posts for the week.

[bbrian017]

you know I have been on a roll!

I changed from 10% writing to about 80% writing in the last 15 days!

[Nathan]

I have been doing mostly writing. I don't have time to write for two blogs and promote.

[The Envoy]

Originally Posted by vietguy3o3

I think I'm 40/60 for writing/marketing. I am in the beginning stages of my blog so I am trying to get the word out as much as I can.

Same here. Although I'm more like 50/50 at the moment.

[cyehuat]

My blog's about 5 months plus. I believe I spend about 80% on marketing and only 20% on writing. I feel I need to do a lot of marketing as I consider my blog still new.

[QuirkyJessi]

At this very moment, I'm doing about 95% writing and maybe 5% indirect marketing. That will do almost a completely flip in the upcoming weeks as I release a new site. I'm working on getting more content created to have published later and then I can focus more on the marketing side.

[BecomeYoung]

Just to chime in, I would say I spend 30/70 on marketing/content development. I should focus more on content dev, but marketing is just so addicting Part of my marketing involves building backlinks, building relationships with others in my niches, posting to sites like digg/reddit, etc.

As sites start to gain traction, you'll find you have to do less marketing to get traffic, as you get organic links to your site (assuming it's a quality site!)