In this installment of the 28 Days to Build a Successful Blog series, I want to focus for a moment on planning your post.
I use a number of methods and tools to manage my blog postings and I will be discussing some of them in this series and beyond. However, if there is one tool which I started using that has helped more than anything, it would be an editorial calendar.
How do I use an editorial calendar?
The first thing I did was set up an editorial calendar in my Google calendar. I started out putting those post which are regular features on my blog each week in the calendar. Than I started to put in post ideas I wanted to post about throughout the week.
What this accomplished was to give me a quick roadmap of what I needed to be blogging about each and every week. It also allowed me to concentrate on writing the post instead of worrying about coming up with ideas to write about.
Your Homework
Sit down and plan out the next two weeks of blog post. And, by the way, I want you to post 3 times each week. Now is a good time to get in the habit. Pick out three days each of those 2 weeks and come up with ideas you want to post about. Write them on the calendar for the day when you want to post them. And put a reminder in your to-do list so you get a tickler at least one day ahead of time. This is the method I use and it works.
