Nicole Avery / @planningqueen

how to streamline your

BLOGGING WORKFLOW

Blogging workflow GUIDE

Analysis Goals Contentplan

4Workschedule

Action

Analyse the time you

spend on your blog

Strategy

You need to know how you are

currently spending your time and

determine what activities are

leading to 80% of your success.

If you are spending your time on

the wrong activities, no matter

how well you manage your time,

you will not achieve the

productivity you are after.

Why time management won’t work

Understanding your time allocation

Cutting the 80% activities - the results

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/20

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Create a goal for your

blog

Strategy

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go

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Create a content plan

for your blog

Planning

Content planning - tools

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• Allows time for thinking

• Allows for preparation of

multimedia

• Ensures you write about

events in a timely

manner

• Makes batch writing

easier

• Makes the actual

process of writing posts

quicker

• Improves the quality

Why content planning improves blogging workflow

1. Survey analysis2. Set up weekly template3. Allocate monthly themed posts4. Place in seasonal posts5. Allocate monthly themes if

there is any6. Place in sponsored content7. Place in 2015 specific posts8. Place in time specific personal

posts9. Place in marketing posts for

own products

A content planning process

Create a work schedule

for yourself

Planning

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1. Understand your current

time use

2. Be realistic about how many

hours you have

3. Consider having a day off

4. Know your productive times

5. Use existing boundaries

What to consider when creating a weekly

schedule

Take focused action to

work on your blog

Working

• Remember email is not your

job

• Avoid the constant check in

• Set time limits

• Use labels and filters

• Use canned responses

Creating an efficient email process

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Utilising your calendar as part of your work flow

Utilising your toolbar as part of your work flow

• Monotask

• Block out distractions

• Start each work

session with a plan

• Try the Pomodoro

technique

How to stay focused with blogging work

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Managing incoming information

Blogging workflow GUIDE

Analysis Goals Contentplan

4Workschedule

Action

Slides can be found at:

Planningwithkids.com/workfl

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Thank you!

• Pareto principle• The 80/20 Principle The Secret of Achieving More with Less Richard Koch• rescuetime.com• google.com.au/analytics• The ONE Thing: by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller • coschedule.com• wordpress.org/plugins/editorial-calendar• google.com/drive• three.sentenc.es• gmail.com• Gmail Labs - Open Gmail. Click the gear icon in the top right and select Settings. Open the

Labs tab. Enable canned responses. Also enable Undo send!• google.com/calendar• google.com/chrome• https://hbr.org/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski/• The Pomodoro technique• focusboosterapp.com• feedly.com• bufferapp.com• evernote.com

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