Try scheduling hosts in advance
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by mbhunter
This is a rule that I don’t follow all the time, and it adds a lot of stress having to find a host from week to week.
The Carnival of Personal Finance has come to ask for hosts quarterly. He asks for hosts about a month in advance, then decides over the next couple of weeks who to have. The schedule is then ready to go for three months, and it’s pretty much smooth sailing from there.
My Carnival of Debt Reduction isn’t quite so big yet but here’s what I did the last time:
- I asked for hosts in a forum that is read by a lot of the bloggers in my niche. I received a number of requiests to host just from one post in the Money Blog Network Forums.
- After I assembled a bunch of interested hosts, I sent an e-mail (bcc to all of them) with a tentative schedule that took all of their requests into account.
- As people respond back to me, the hosting schedule takes form.
If your blog carnival has been around for a while then it makes sense to streamline how you set up your hosting schedule.
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