Advice for Navigating Your Blog Through a Crisis

Hi {NAME}! I hope you're managing okay in these challenging times. One strategy for managing your blog and your business in a crisis is to diversify. By diversifying you are spreading risk and opening up to broader opportunities. The theme on the blog this week is to diversify and we've got an article, a Facebook Live and some developments of the ProBlogger Job Board along these lines. Read: [How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-time Blogger]( In today’s blog post, I am going to walk you through the last 13 years of my life, and through the timeline of how I have diversified and added income streams over that time. Watch: [Advice for Navigating Your Blog Through a Crisis]( Many bloggers are currently facing a variety of challenges as a result of the current pandemic situation. Whether it be lower traffic, engagement, motivation or income - many bloggers are struggling. In this live teaching Darren will share some advice on how to approach blogging in this time so that your blog is best positioned at the end of this crisis. Here's [the link to download Darren's presentation slides](. Looking for work or do you want some work done? We've just increased the number of job categories on the ProBlogger Job Board - diversifying. While the majority of ads on the ProBlogger Job Board are for writing jobs, there are many other types of online work advertised. Your skills and those of the broader ProBlogger Community are also diverse, extending far beyond writing. We have added 12 new Categories* (listed below in bold and asterisked, alongside the original 7 job Categories) to offer our Employers more ways to find skilled online workers and for our bloggers to find ways they can add value and earn money. Employers can now advertise for: - Blog / Article Writing - Branding & PR* - Community Management* - Copywriting - Customer Service* - Data Entry* - Editing / Proofreading - Ghostwriting - Graphic Design* - Podcast / Audio Production* - Researcher* - Sales, Marketing & Promotion - Search Engine Optimization (SEO)* - Social Media Strategy & Management* - Translation / Transcription* - VA / Administrative Support* - Video Production* - Web Design & Development - _Miscellaneous If you're looking for people to work on your blog you can [post a job from $70](. If you're looking for (more) work, check out [ProBlogger Jobs](. New jobs are added daily. Set up alerts to make sure you don't miss opportunities. [Register (for free) as a Candidate to set up job alerts]( based on keyword, category, job type, location...  And if you want to learn everything you need in order to become a paid writer I suggest you get yourself a copy of [ProBlogger's Ultimate Guide to Freelance Writing](. Stay safe and I hope you have a good week blogging! Darren Rowse ProBlogger To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add darren@problogger.com to your address book or whitelist us. Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](. Our postal address: PO Box 1181, Blackburn North, VIC 3130, Australia