I hope you are enjoying the weekend! Few more hours left and we’re again be stretching our muscles to work for a week. Actually. not in my case since I have a weird work schedule and tomorrow’s gonna be my last day for the week. Oh yeah! Can you feel the happiness I’m feeling right now?
Anyway, I’ll be postponing the second part of my “The Happy List” for face and body care tomorrow. For now, I’m so excited to open a new series on my blog. I’ve been wanting to do this last year but I think it would be better to wait for new year! New year, new ideas, new blog!
Well, you’ve already seen the title, this is my first Sundays with GK post. I’ve been receiving questions since last year and I really want to address them through a blog post so everyone can benefit from it too and finally, here it is! I’ll be answering a chosen reader question here on my blog every Sunday!
Recent question that we have is from Erin of Hainrihi’s Discoveries. She’s a reader turned good friend and happens to be a blogger too! Don’t forget to check out her blog!
Hi Sis,
I would like to ask.
I noticed that almost everyday or every other day, you blog various topics. I would like to know how you do it? Do you already have drafts where you just have to edit and post? Or do you have an outline and then type away and post? Or post on the spot?
Also, how do you “schedule” your posting? Dapat ba thrice a week? Every other day? Or kung kailan feel mo magpost/sulat?
Sorry daming tanong.
Thanks
Honestly, I don’t have any specific schedule of my blog post except if it’s about event, press release, sponsored post, and giveaway. The rest of the topics, I post whenever I feel like it. I don’t have drafts. For outline, yeah I have sort of, when it comes to reviewing products and if you’ve been reading my blog for quite a long time now, you know how I review products here. What I do is post on the spot.
I don’t have blogging schedule. You might say “oh she sucks for not having time management”. I blog whenever I want, anytime of the day. Why? I don’t want to feel pressured. I don’t want my blog to smell like it’s a job. Work is a different thing for me. I have weird work sched and I don’t enjoy the weekends like most of you do. Let’s just call it, unpredictable posting.Scheduling post? Wordpress has this function but I don’t use it. Maybe if I’ll be out for a super long vacation. For specifics, I can say, I post either before the start of my work or after my work (sometimes at dawn or before the day ends, it depends). This is an aboveboard answer, well before, I blog while working. I borrow my cousin’s laptop. But, I noticed I’m not that satisfied with the outcome. I want to have focus on what I do. Work = work. Blog = blog.
Photos. I have stock photos, if that’s what you call it. I have countless numbers of photos to be posted here but now that I’m dealing with a new camera, I want to erase all of them and start from zero so I will have greater quality posts / photographs. It’s easier if you have stock photos for reviews tho. I just browse and pick what I want to post. Another great thing, you can already use the product after product shoots!
Here’s a tip I want to share for my fellow bloggers or beauty bloggers. Since I’m back to nothing for photos, I have to keep the products that I want to review so I can’t use them and they will look better in pictures because they are new! This box is one of my DIY Projects last year. I decided to put there the products that are lined-up for review and I can choose from there. Take your product shots, then test it!
Here are some of the products that I need to review. For tubes like concealers and BB Creams, some of these are used and tested already. I can just wipe or clean them before I take photos. For eyeshadows and others, I try my hardest not to use them until I have photographed them all.
I truly admire those who blog for a living but for me, I don’t earn that much in this blog. All I have here is my heart and my passion. There are some random opportunities but even without them, I will still continue to blog and do what I love to do. Don’t make yourself pressured in posting. Always remember this, Quality over Quantity. It doesn’t matter if you’ll post daily, every other day, thrice a week, or even once a week. What matters is that you have produced a post that is very much worth reading. Readers will surely go back and check your blog because you have nifty entries.