Scott Porad

A friend asked me to write a guest post on a specific topic, and I just had the absolutely hardest time finding my voice on the subject.  I basically knew what I wanted to say, yet no matter how I wrote and phrased it, I ended up sounding like a complete jerk.

I suppose that’s an occupational hazard.  I try to write here regularly, and sometimes blog posts just flow out of my fingers without even thinking about it.  These posts are magic and I love them.  Other times, the posts don’t come so easily and that’s frustrating.

Possibly the single most important lesson I’ve learned over the last year—since I started writing in earnest—is the importance of writing on a regular schedule.  I try to write a post four days a week, Monday through Thursday.  I am by no means perfect, but I do my best and the results prove it.

What you see below is a chart of page views and subscribers to my blog:

The blue line is page views by the day, which goes up and down.  There was a time, about six months ago where I wrote some posts that got a lot of traffic and you can see those spikes.

The green line is subscribers which has been a steady “up and to the right”.  To me, this is the evidence that the slow-and-steady pace of daily blogging really makes a difference.