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Blow Me Away
Blogging:
Everything you need
to know about the
social editorial
planning process
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credit:
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Sarah
Evans,
chief
evangelist,
Tracky
(www.tracky.com)
sarah@tracky.com
224.789.8314
@prsarahevans
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2. Not So Sexy: Workflow (#nss)
Plan
Research
Create
Share
Respond
Monitor
Iterate
For
a
list
of
all
resources
men=oned
today,
visit:
h@ps://tracky.com/39923
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5. It doesn’t matter if you’re a single
author blog, or managing multiple
contributors, use a
social collaboration platform.
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6. Plan
a.k.a.
NO
spreadsheet
movement
• Establish roles
(content producer, editor)
• Monthly, weekly, daily
• Deadlines
• Promotional toolkit
• Keywords
• Timing (relevance and share)
• Monitor
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7. Research
• International & national headlines,
localize story
• Holidays, observances
• Customer or brand lifecycle
• Conferences, media events
• Google trends
• Company milestones, human
interest stories
• Add top newsrooms to your phone
• Utilize ifttt
• Top social network trending topics
• Twitter lists of top tier media
– Mobile notifications
– Tweetdeck or Hootsuite columns
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8. Ideation Station
• Future ideas and
research
• Guest post
opportunities
(inbound links)
• Urgent and
important media
source
opportunities
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9. Create
It’s
“NaIonal
I
<3
Being
An
Entrepreneur
Week”
• Monday: “15 reasons why you love
being entrepreneurs #new”
– Interviews from people in your industry
– Tweetable sound bites with link back
to the article (tweet this)
– Email post to all participants in
advance
• Tuesday: Guest post from an
employee (human interest story)
• Wednesday: How your company
helps entrepreneurs
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• Thursday: Pin-worthy images
• Friday: INFOGRAPHIC
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10. But,
remember…
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12. Share
Define
&
execute
the
best
sharing
tacIcs
for
your
industry.
Stellar
sharing
tacIcs
=
be=er
search
and
social
visibility.
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credit:
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13. Example social promotion tactic list
(text, visual, audio)
• 70-characters (or less)
socially shareable sound
bite
– Personal
– Corporate
• Social visual post
• E-newsletter
• Hashtag(s)
• Q&A (Quora, Linkedin)
• Niche sites and networks
• Private sites and
networks
Everything
you
do
should
drive
and
support
your
brand,
traffic
and
keywords.
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14. K.I.S.S.
• Identify your “key
times” (Tweriod)
• Schedule posts to go
out at times you’re
most likely to reach
your community
(Buffer)
• Automate your
sharing (dlvr.it)
• Reminders to share
evergreen content
every few weeks or
months.
For
a
list
of
all
resources
men=oned
today,
visit:
h@ps://tracky.com/39923
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15. Tip! Creating the perfect tweet
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16. Respond, Monitor & Iterate
• Living content,
launch your
response matrix (or
not)
• Record trends and
content that most
resonated with your
community
• Implement what you
learned next week
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17. Questions?
For
a
list
of
all
resources
menIoned
today,
visit:
h@ps://tracky.com/39923
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