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Nicole Avery / @planningqueen
how to streamline your
BLOGGING WORKFLOW
Blogging workflow GUIDE
Analysis Goals Content
plan
4Work
schedule
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
80/20principle
Create a goal for your
blog
Strategy
Blogginggoal
Create a content plan
for your blog
Planning
Content planning - tools
Contentplan
• 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 analysis
2. Set up weekly template
3. Allocate monthly themed posts
4. Place in seasonal posts
5. Allocate monthly themes if
there is any
6. Place in sponsored content
7. Place in 2015 specific posts
8. Place in time specific personal
posts
9. Place in marketing posts for
own products
A content planning process
Create a work schedule
for yourself
Planning
4
Weeklyschedule
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
Labelsandfilters
Cannedresponses
Cannedresponses
Cannedresponses
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
Focusbooster
Managing incoming information
Blogging workflow GUIDE
Analysis Goals Content
plan
4Work
schedule
Action
Slides can be found at:
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ow
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
Resources to help improve your blogging workflow