My Blogging Schedule and Routine
Welcome to another blogging Article I always talk about my top blogging tips, this Article is a little bit different but it’s one of my most asked questions and it is about what is my blogging schedule and routine which I’ve been super hesitant about filming just because with where I am in the business like I’m not necessarily doing the things that I used to do or the things that you might be doing now with like starting your blog or wherever you are in your blogging journey but I’m obsessed with knowing people’s routines
I think it’s so interesting and usually no matter what someone does they could be a doctor and they could be telling me their routine and weekly schedule and I can still pick out pieces that I can implement in my life and in my work schedule so to celebrate the new year I thought I would go through my schedule and what I do just how I like to schedule everything out okay I have my computer so I can look at it because I have my calendar I’m a google calendar fanatic like I swear by google calendars
so everything is up and it just makes it so much easier because I can pull it up on my computer I can pull it up on my phone but also like the rest of the BSL team can like when we’re scheduling meetings everyone’s kind of on the same page with like one are Sarah and I available for meetings want a Shelby available for meetings one can just it is easy to place to accumulate all of that but a little background if you haven’t watched one of my Article before so I started by sophia lee when
Transitioning from Blogger to Business Owner
I was going into my sophomore year of college so that was four years ago I graduated in 2021 was the first year that I wasn’t in college anymore in the time since when I started my blog as a sophomore it’s now grown into a seven-figure business we get over like 600 000 pages a month I always love giving my blogging tips and like things that I wish I would have known there wasn’t really a resource like this when I started my blog and i just think it would be insanely helpful so that’s my little gist on it oh but really
why I wanted to say that was because as I’m telling you this schedule I have gotten to a point now we have a whole team that works on the website and so I’ve been able to step back and take on the role of growing other businesses and the whole point of 2021 for us and 2022 is getting our eggs in different baskets and so well our blog is super profitable we really this is controversial because people always get mad when I say this but I don’t want my I don’t want to be known as a blogger
Embracing Structure to Fuel Multiple Businesses
I want my blog to be the marketing engine that kind of fuels the rest of the businesses so um I’m kind of all over the place which is why I really have to set my schedule up I did not like last year like I was running around with my head, cut off and I wasn’t focused enough and I wasn’t like I just wasn’t efficient and I wasn’t getting stuff done that I needed to get done for other people because my mind would be on like one thing and then I mean really we have like seven businesses happening over here right now
so it’s just I just really really really tried to be structured with my schedule so for me this is what has made the most amount of sense I’ve decided every single day that I’m working from 8 20 to 5 30. I think a lot of people have like a dream world in their heads that bloggers have the best schedule ever but the reality is that you literally work 24/7.
Structuring My Workweek for Balance and Productivity
like my life is my work, especially with social media my social media is showing my life which makes me feel like I’m working 24 7 and that’s just like not I don’t know I just wanted to change that a little bit so I’m strictly working from five or for I’m trying to strictly work from 8 20 to 5 30.
I’d like very aware that that’s not always going to be possible but with how I set up the schedule that’s kind of what I like based off of so first I’ll go through like what my main tasks are from Monday to Friday and then I’ll kind of like go through the actual like a day but this is the overall categories that I’ve set for every single day so Monday is my by sophia lee day slash blogging day by sophia lee is our main business so that is where I spend the day I don’t I don’t know there’s so many things
that we could do within there whether it’s writing a blog post whether it’s working on the content calendar um answering emails doing finances accounting um putting together the planner we have a tangible planner now updating the website I don’t know things like randomly come in there so that could be one of them I mean that’s like one of the days that’s Monday Tuesday is my social media slash youtube day so Tuesday I spend the entire day I’m not scheduling any meetings that are my date where
Weekly Schedule Breakdown for Enhanced Productivity
I go and do a YouTube Article or I film tick tocks um planning my content like things like that anything that has to do with social media I have a whole entire day that is uninterrupted to do that Wednesday is uh my email day so that’s when I focus on our email and getting newsletters out um helping plan content for that editing emails that we’re sending now coming up with sales sequences others like there are emails so involved so i have a whole day for that Thursday is my bsl studios day that is our home design business
that is like really what I’m trying to get to do 100 of the time is what i want to be in charge of that’s what i love to do so right now we are flipping a house and it’s a huge project so i have a whole day allotted to that eventually like i want to keep adding days into that because that’s like you know like i said that’s what i really want to be doing and then Friday is my blogging day so that’s either creating courses for blogging writing the news weekly um blogging emails for that filming youtube videos
this different um stuff like that we’re in the process of writing an email course and so that’s like basically like what majority of those blogging dates will consist of so that’s kind of like the main dress the on Mondays the by Sophia Lee day on Tuesday is our social media day Wednesday is email day Thursday is bsl studios day and then Friday is blogging day so that kind of is like our main categories and that allows me to fit hopefully everything in that I need to and then to get even more micro
Detailed Daily Schedule for Enhanced Focus and Efficiency
I have it set up so that I’m hitting different things during the day so on Monday every Monday from 8 20 to 9 a.m. I check emails and I’m planning the day that’s the time when I can kind of look at the week ahead and be like okay we need to do this answer any emails that need to be done um and then after that Sarah and i have a meeting where we go over like what we’re doing Sarah’s my business partner so we just make sure we’re on the same page and getting things done
then from um 9 30 on until 3 30 my day is completely open attack whatever needs to be done that day so that is like where meetings are scheduled with the gr with the team where like other meetings are scheduled with accountants and our QuickBooks person and just like different stuff like that that needs to get done at 3 30 to 4 30 I have a pof which pof is putting out fires a lot of my job is putting out like not putting actually putting I mean you know what I mean like things just come up that need to be figured out and so I get anything done
that popped up during the day and then I checked emails for one more time I’m really trying I mean emails do not need to be answered the entire day it is a waste of my time I get distracted so I’m trying to have in the morning I answer emails and then in the afternoon I answer emails and that’s it from 4 30 to 5 30 I do Instagram and tick tock so that is like an uninterrupted time where I film an Instagram story get an Instagram picture film a tick-tock um get it uploaded and that gives me time to do that Tuesday is my social media
Comprehensive Weekly Schedule for Streamlined Efficiency
youtube day but I still want to make sure that I’m answering emails so on Tuesday morning I answer emails and I plan the day that takes me to nine and then for the rest of the day I have the social media and that is like the whole thing no one understands how long social media takes it’s absurd how long it takes um so that is that and then at 4 30 to 5 30 I plan next week’s social media calendar and I answer emails wednesdays my email day just to reiterate from 8 20 to 9 20 I do Instagram and TikTok
then from 9 30 to 10 I answer emails and plan the day my day’s open after that until 4 30 to 5 30 when i do my pof so putting out fires answering last-minute emails different stuff like that Thursday is my bsl studios day same thing Instagram tick tock from 8 20 to 9 20 then I answer emails until I get to 10 o’clock so really my day is from 10 o’clock like my I don’t know why I consider that not working before that but kind of like my kind of working day is from 10 to 4 30 at 4 30 pof and then on Friday I do the same thing
Instagram tick tock until from 8 20 to 9 20 answer emails from 9 30 to 10 and then I have space open but on Fridays, I want to be done with work from 4 to 4 45 so that’s kind of my overall schedule I feel like that schedule like I spent a lot of time trying to figure out and making sure that I got things done I also we use quick or click up use QuickBooks too but click up is what I’m trying to talk about um where we go through well where I went through and like I wrote a list of every single thing that needs to be done weekly
Staying Organized: Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Planning
every the single thing that needs to be done monthly quarterly yearly so then like at the beginning of the week I can look at and be like okay I need on that day whether it’s like let’s say it’s um bsl studios okay I know every single week I need to be checking the budget to make sure we are on track for attempting to stay on our budget for this investment property I also know every month we need to go look at the bsl studio’s website and make sure that we have products updated for that season and that everything’s showing up
correctly um so that just allows me to stay organized in that way and stay on track and make sure we’re not missing things so that’s kind of my schedule like I said i’m at a way different point than I was when I was first starting my blog and I was a full-time college student and I was working like now this is my full-time job so now I can literally spend my entire day or my entire week planning out all these things which are incredible it is incredible but it’s still a job so it’s basically just planning your work
like you probably do with your work too okay that wraps up this video um i hope it was interesting i know it’s the start of the year so it’s just like i could just listen on and on about people’s schedules and routines and stuff and i think it’s i don’t know i just think it’s interesting so make sure to subscribe to the channel we have such a good calendar of videos coming up for blogging and all the blogging tips and emails if you’re not subscribed to our blogging newsletter we send out weekly
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The Pinterest course goes over our entire picture strategy Pinterest is where we get with almost all of our well not all of it but huge hundreds of thousands of readers to our website and then you have to be so specific with interest it’s like insane and then our perfecting blogging course goes over exactly what we do on the website front of things our SEO strategy exactly how we set up our posts how we write our content calendar different things like that