Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
I just wanted to share a quick couple of insights that I’ve had over the last month or so on how to get over writer’s block. Just a few weeks back, I was working 12-14 hours a day, writing articles, creating software programs, spinning articles, creating videos, talking with prospects, doing webinars, and also trying to mentor and train a downline.
As you can probably imagine, trying to do everything yourself, all the time will only work for so long before you get a little bit overwhelmed mentally.
I wanted to just give you a few quick tips to keep you focused on actually building a business (not just having a glorified online job):
- Understand what your priorities are. In online marketing, your number one priority is marketing. Creating content and information that will drive your business to the next level is crucial.
- Outsource anything that you can pay someone to complete who earns less money than you. If you’ve got the cash, don’t spend time doing secretarial work, spinning articles, designing your blog, and completing technical tasks. Even if someone else does the job only 70% as well, it frees your time to focus on more important things, like marketing, coaching, and strategy.
- Understand that the real players in business are those who spend time in the creative strategy phase, not menial tasks. Nothing is more powerful than learning to work with and empower others. The more people you train and empower, the more powerful you become.
- Just write. Make sure you write something every day, even if it’s only 400-500 words. It makes a huge difference in the long term for your business. Even if you don’t do keyword research, write. You need to constantly put out fresh information.
Last of all, don’t worry about it. Seriously. Not everything you write needs to be SEO optimized. You don’t have to do keyword research for everything. You don’t need to drive backlinks to every page on your site. Just write, create, be yourself, and stay consistent. You’ll get more value from that than almost anything else you could possibly do.
BLOG. CREATE. You can make a difference and will, if you just keep adding value. I’ll see you at the top.
In prosperity,
David Wood
Comments
Esha Addy
Great post bro, this post is right on time. I have been wearing all the hats in my business so my mind isn’t free to be creative. Stress has a way of zapping the creativity right out of you. If I want to take my business to the next level, it is time to outsource. Thanks for being the leader you are David.
Andre Johnson
Hey David, thanks dude, you really do hit the hammer on the nail head man. I really needed to read this article post right now as I am just randomly reading it out of nowhere. I have been trying to figure out what to write about or how to pick the right company. Your post puts simple things into perspective. Thanks man!
Tommy DiPeitro
Hi David! Your content rocks! I appreciate the training you provide and will take your 100-day challenge starting TODAY! I have been writing, yet my articles have been incomplete. The information you provide has lifted the weight off my shoulders and inspired me to write consistently. Thank you again!
Jim Hoy
David, thanks for these guidelines. I need to be reminded of these on a regular basis! It can all be so overwhelming at times, especially in the beginning when there is so much to set up. The 80/20 rule really helps in focusing on critical tasks. You are a true inspiration, David.
Ivo Holsts
Hi David, you are right. Consistency in article marketing is essential to succeed. If anyone hasn’t seen David’s video series, I highly recommend it. It will educate you more than any other so-called article marketing guru can.
Anthony Wong
Hey David, many thanks for this post. Everything you mentioned about spending endless hours online trying to do everything yourself resonates with me. Outsourcing is definitely the way to go. Keep up the great work, you are a true leader and inspiration in this industry.
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Melissa Araya
This post really resonates with me, David! It’s amazing how just reading this helped me refocus my energy on the important things. Your point about outsourcing is a game changer. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re making a huge impact!
Rodrigo Morales
I can’t believe the results you’ve mentioned here. Do you have any evidence or real-life examples to back up these claims? I’d love to see some case studies or testimonials that show how effective your methods are in practice.
Samantha G.
I have a quick question about the outsourcing part. What kind of tasks would you recommend outsourcing first? Should I start with admin tasks or is it better to outsource content creation right away?
Julio Martínez
David, I love your enthusiasm but I have to disagree on some points. Outsourcing doesn’t always work for smaller businesses, especially when budgets are tight. I’ve tried outsourcing before, and it didn’t bring the results I expected.
Daniela Rivera
Hey David! It’s been so long! I was just reading your post and thought I’d drop by to say hi. You’ve been doing some incredible work, and it’s so inspiring. Let’s catch up soon, maybe over coffee? Hope all is well!
Alberto Vargas
This reminds me of a time when I was struggling with managing my blog. I was juggling so many tasks that I ended up burning out. After I read about outsourcing in another blog, I decided to give it a try. It saved me from quitting altogether. Great advice!
Fernando Castro
I recently came across a tool called Asana that has been really helpful for managing my outsourced projects. It keeps everything organized and makes communication easy. I’d recommend anyone who is thinking of outsourcing to check it out.
Sofía Hidalgo
Thank you for this, David! I’ve been struggling with consistency in my writing, and your post has given me a new perspective. I’m going to implement these strategies and see how it goes. Appreciate the wisdom and insights!
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but the post says to outsource anything someone else can do even at seventy percent as well, and I keep getting stuck on: how do you know when seventy percent isn’t good enough anymore because it’s now what represents your business to actual readers? I don’t have any experience managing anyone and the idea of just handing my writing voice to a stranger honestly makes me nervous.
Four points, really: prioritise marketing over admin, outsource what you can, spend your time on strategy not tasks, and write daily regardless of optimisation. All sound advice in isolation. The gap is sequencing – the post assumes you already have enough coming in to pay for outsourcing before you’ve built anything to outsource work for. For someone starting from nothing, points one and four are available immediately. Point two isn’t available until much later, and the post presents all four as if they start on day one.
Meera’s sequencing point is the real one. Even if I could afford to outsource tomorrow, I don’t have the spare hour to manage someone else’s work either. Delegation costs time before it saves any.
Nia – how many hours a week would ‘just write daily’ realistically need to cost you before it stopped being sustainable? Genuinely asking, not rhetorical.
Yuki’s question maps to a simple input-output problem: writing time in, published posts out, and Nia’s constraint is a fixed daily budget that’s already spoken for elsewhere. Model it as available minutes minus fixed obligations equals writing capacity. The post treats writing capacity as roughly infinite if you just ‘prioritise’ correctly, but for someone working full shifts, the failure point isn’t priority, it’s that the input variable is close to zero most days. No amount of outsourcing fixes a queue with nothing arriving at the front of it.
The post asserts that outsourcing ‘menial tasks’ frees the real players for creative strategy, as if the categories are obvious and fixed for everyone. Worth defining terms: what counts as menial here is really just ‘whatever you personally don’t enjoy or aren’t skilled at,’ which varies enormously by person and gets dressed up as a universal hierarchy – writing and strategy at the top, everything else beneath it. For some people the writing itself is the tedious part and the technical setup is where the actual interest lives. The post’s whole structure assumes one kind of person is reading it: someone who finds strategy energising and admin draining. I’d want to see that assumption tested before accepting the ranking as if it were a law rather than a preference.
‘Don’t worry about it, seriously’ is doing a lot of work for a man running twelve-hour days.
Reminds me of the diner, actually. We had a night cook who’d agonise over plating a burger like it was going out to a food critic, and a breakfast cook who just got eggs on plates, hot, on time, every single morning for nineteen years. Neither one was wrong exactly. But only one of them built a following of regulars who showed up at six a.m. rain or shine, because consistency is its own kind of quality, maybe the only kind that compounds. This post’s ‘just write’ advice is the breakfast cook’s whole philosophy, and it’s the harder one to trust.
Birdie, your breakfast cook is precisely the image I needed. I confess that at sixty-one I arrived at this post rather hoping for permission to keep refining before I published anything at all, since that has always felt to me the more dignified approach. Your comparison rather dismantles that hope, gently but completely. I suspect what I have been calling care has, on occasion, simply been fear wearing a more respectable coat. I shall attempt the breakfast cook’s discipline this week and report back, though I make no promises about the quality of the eggs.