The Busy Blogger's Success Kit
The Busy Blogger's Success Kit is your shortcut to building (or growing) your blog. You'll find ways to plan, systemise and outsource your content, to give you more time to focus on strategy, marketing and making money. It contains all the tools, templates, workbooks and checklists I wish I'd had to kickstart my content creation strategy when I first started blogging. Here's what's in the kit:
How To Come Up With Compelling Content Ideas For Your Community – A 10 page PDF guide to creating the right sort of content
How To Come Up With Compelling Content Ideas For Your Community (The Journal) – A 6 page printable journal to complement the guide
Blog post planning template – A 1 page printable template (plus an example page) to help you get clear on your objective, keywords and structure
Weekly blog planner – A 1 page printable planner (plus an example page) to help you plan out your posts, including monetization plans and traffic driving strategies
Where to get content ideas – A 2 page printable checklist of places to look each week or month for fresh content ideas in your niche
50 things to blog about – A 4 page list of blog post ideas that can be adapted to any niche
Content style checklist – A 1 page printable checklist to help you (and your team) keep your blog posts consistent and full of the elements readers want
‘Outside the blog’ content ideas – A 3 page printable checklist of ideas for content upgrades, bonuses, opt-ins and social media posts)
Content templates – Eight 1 page customizable templates for specific types of blog posts, from how-to articles, to recipes, to product comparison posts
Blog branding guidelines – A 1 page customizable blog branding template, to let prospective guest posters and content creators know what your brand is all about, at a glance
Free content cheat sheet – A 3 page cheat sheet, showing you where to get free content for your blog, with links to resources
Submission guidelines template for guest bloggers – A 1 page template you can copy/adapt to let potential guest bloggers know exactly what you want (can be sent out or posted as a page on your blog)
Guest blogger checklist – A 1 page checklist showing you how to find and work with a guest blogger
Hiring checklist – A 3 page checklist of all the steps necessary to hire and work with a paid content creator
Writing assignment checklist – A 1 page customizable template of everything you need to confirm with your content creators before hiring, from payment and rights, to deadlines and word length
User’s guide – A handy 5 page PDF guide to help you make the most of all the elements in this kit and keep your blog full of quality content