Misconception 6: Can I actually use a blog as a website?

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Voiceover: ShermanLive.com. Simplify and demystify technology so you can profit from it. Welcome to ShermanLive.com. Presenting time-saving tips, shortcuts, how-tos, leading edge techniques, and money-generating strategies. Here's Sherman Hu.

Sherman: Hello and welcome to another episode of ShermanLive.com. I'm your host, Sherman Hu, broadcasting to you from my home studio in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. I finally, finally came home after a three-week family vacay throughout California and Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks. We were traveling to, I don't know, half a dozen different places, everywhere from Santa Monica to Anaheim to Padero Beach close by Santa Barbara to San Diego, Yuma, Arizona, and finally the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

I want to give a shout out to good friends and colleagues that we made along the way. Let me give you a quick rundown of some of the fabulous people that I met and that we met when we were there:

Guy Cochran from DVeStore and the friends that we teamed up to create a video shoot my first three days in Santa Monica. Pat Hoglund and family, who runs salmonandsteelheadjournal.com. He's a magazine editor of a salmon fishing magazine. Of course, good friends Ann and Anthony. We met up at Padero Beach close by Santa Barbara. Body surfing and having lots of fun. Annconvery.com and anthonymora.com are their websites, both business consultants and PR experts.

Of course, I had a great time with Tina and Ron Lorenz and the guide dog, Rusty. Tina can be found at TinaWrites.com, and that was in Yuma, Arizona that we hung out: Very, very frigging hot there. You can cook an omelette on your head. We had a great time with the guide dog, and also my children had a great time jumping in the backyard pool and hanging out there, just cooling off.

Last, but not least, I hung out with Dave Haylor and his family in Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri and had a great time jumping into the lake, high dives, trampolines, slides, tubing, and a great way to end off our family vacay. Thanks to you all for making our trip such a wonderful experience, and also for your friendship.

Well, thanks for tuning in to this episode where we will cover Blogging Misconception Number Five, "Don't I have to blog all the time to get results?" Stay tuned for this episode as I reveal some great strategies.

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Sherman: OK, Blogging Misconception Number Five says, "Don't I have to blog all the time to get results?" Well, this statement would be accurate if you don't know this insider's secret I'm about to share with you.

In your blogging software, be it WordPress or Movable Type or any other blogging platform, there's a feature you can use to edit that lets you postdate or preschedule your post. Do you see the wonder of the strategy yet? I mean, this is amazing.

If you can discipline yourself to compile, to write, to gather, to organize your content once, and to then postdate, or preschedule, your content to publish over the next few days or weeks or months or years, then in essence you don't have to blog all the time to get the results you're looking for.

Whether you're using this strategy to, let's say, establish your credibility, or to build your subscriber base, or to attract more human visitors, or any other reason you may have, you've nothing to lose and everything to gain by training the search engines to spider your blog, which is indexing the blog, on your regularly timed schedule and to reap the rewards by deploying this strategy.

So, now that you've learned that you can preschedule or postdate your publishing, this will wipe away this myth or misconception that you have to blog all the time to get results. And now that you don't have to blog all the time, let's get blogging.

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Well, thanks for staying tuned to this episode of ShermanLive.com. Next episode will cover Blogging Misconception Number Six, "Can I actually use a blog as a website?" Well, stay tuned for the next episode, and you'll find out the answer.

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