Does an ergonomic blogging setup result in a more profitable blog?

I’ve taken the plunge, as indicated in Wednesday’s post, and placed an order for a brand new fully loaded HAG Capsico. I have until tuesday next week to confirm my choice of fabric. At the moment the front runner is yellow faux suede, as pictured below, but my head is very close to overruling my heart on the grounds that yellow suede, faux or otherwise, would be incredibly difficult to keep clean and that a muted shade of blue would be a better choice whilst retaining some degree of aesthetic impact.

Earlier today, after my outgoing chair had, literally and figuratively, left the building, I turned my attention to the rest of my home office. Much to my wife’s annoyance I proceeded to move anything that wasn’t nailed down to other rooms in the house so that I was left with a clean sheet, a completely empty room, that could be redesigned as ergonomically as possible.

Back pain, it would seem, especially when the cause is almost guaranteed to be a badly setup workspace, can make a blogger, or anyone who works from home, do strange things.

I now have an empty home office, computer and music equipment scattered to the four corners of our house.

I also have a question rolling around in my head. Does an ergonomic blogging setup result in a more profitable blog?

The answer should be a resounding yes. But until my new chair arrives, in what is going to seem like a very long six weeks, I’m not in a position, again literally and figuratively, to offer anything approaching a definitive answer.

However, despite my lack of ergonomic experience, I’m reasonably sure that the answer not only should be yes but has to be yes. A resounding yes.

An uncomfortable environment will have a negative impact on a blogger’s progress, both physically and mentally. Creativity will be hampered and, in extreme cases, the blogging environment will simply become a place that the blogger avoids, subconsciously or otherwise.

Only time will tell but I genuinely expect my blogging income to increase if I succeed in making my home office as ergonomic as possible. Logic dictates that ergonomics will increase productivity and that increase in productivity subsequently results in an increase in income.

That just leaves one more question. Yellow or blue?

Ashley Morgan is a UK jazz trumpet player and owner of independent record label 447 Records. Ashley Morgan is the trumpet player with Enormous.