Today’s assignment: find a blogging buddy. If appropriate, plan to publish guest posts on one another’s blogs.

If you don’t see guest posters as an option for your blog, that’s totally fine. You can find a buddy to lean on for feedback and support, minus the guest posting.

Why do this?

• Because your blogging buddy is sure to tell their friends and followers about their guest post on your site, bringing you some potential new followers and maybe even a traffic bump.
• Because collaborating spawns post ideas you can both use to fill out your editorial calendars.
• Because it’s always more fun to do something with a friend — especially a naturally community-oriented activity like blogging. You can laugh, make mistakes, teach one another, learn, and have fun supporting each other along the way.

Personally, I am happy to work solo for the moment. I already feel the overwhelming support and feedback given by my fellow bloggers and followers, which helps and encourages me to do even more. Ideas I have plenty of, but time, or rather lack there of, is the enemy. Working full time and running a blog as “a second job” is filling all my spare time quite nicely and then some. Therefore, concentrating on my own blog and checking out the other sites on the side will have to do for now.

If and when I am ever blogging as a full time paid blogger, then I will seriously consider hosting some events and getting even more friendly with the neighbours. And maybe I also have time to do the “buddy thing”.