Sometimes a summer holiday is a great thing. People who have worked in jobs for a long time may take long service leave or a sabbatical, which is designed to refresh them, broaden their horizons and generally give them a rest before they get back to their jobs and get on with it. I like to think that is what happened here at tigertwotiger.co.uk. The past couple of months have been tumultuous from both a business and personal level for me and I still feel like the treadmill has been turned on high beneath me and my legs are struggling to keep up. But I haven’t gone flying off the back of it yet…
The question is, what happens when you take a hiatus? The answer is both negative and positive. On the negative side, you lose your subscribers, your search engine placement, your flow and much of your audience. Pretty grim indeed. But there is a positive side and that is a sense of renewal which you hope to be able to carry into the future. If you really feel you have to take a hiatus, take one. Don’t close your blog down, and don’t come back to it until you are good and ready. But do come back and pick it back up. Chances are there is already a lot of great stuff in it. With a new outlook you can continue to build on that.
I have done a lot of reading over the time I haven’t been blogging and the question of blogging frequency has come up on many occasions. I know we have discussed it before (and I am sure we will discuss it again), but there is no right and wrong answer to the question of how frequently you should blog. Daily, twice weekly, weekly, monthly – it is entirely up to you. It is your space. The best answer is the one that fits with your life and one that allows you to sustain it.
One way of looking at blogging is to see it as you would preparing for a marathon. To get to the race (your goal), you have to work hard. You need to put in the hours and the training. You need to set yourself a schedule and stick to it as best as you can. But you also need to be good to yourself, forgive yourself if you miss a run, and pick back up the next day. This is the same with your blog.
So, I am picking back up. A huge amount of activity has occurred in the social media industry in the past couple of months (doesn’t it always), and I have done my best to keep abreast of all of the important things. I have a list two pages long of topics and things to talk about. Now I just need to schedule it, and I’ll be running that marathon in no time.
Good to see you all again.
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