Do you have a plan?
I have sat down and wrote a plan for the case study blog – the photographer blog. I think it is important to set out some goals for the new blog to give me something to work to and a structure to follow. Which will be helpful and keep me focused on the topic and the audience I am wanting to reach. It’s no good if the blog just starts wandering around with no real substance or way forward, it will never get anywhere and never have any readers.
As I have said before I am a member of the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program, and I am using it’s ideas and principles as part of the planning and action of the case study blog. This will be interesting as it’s the first time I have tried them on a blog from it’s launch, this blog was already up and running when I joined the program. I am looking forward to seeing the results. The only thing is I have to deliver by doing the work on time in the first place, so lets hope I can keep up!
Where’s the case study blog up to?
At the moment I have been installing and configuring the plugins for the blog. It’s nearly ready to go and I will be detailing more on the launch in a future post. I thought I would take a look at what I have been planning behind the scenes for the blog pre-launch, to give you an idea of how it is taking shape.
- I decided on the writing style for the blog.
- I decided on the aim of the blog and who I am writing it for.
- I looked at the future, and goals for the blog and where I want it to go.
- I have wrote the about page and looked at who I am wanting to reach.
- I am preparing 10 articles pre-launch to publish over the first two weeks.
- I have another 10 – 20 post ideas and titles to work on in the mean time.
- I am drawing up a list for traffic generation to implement once the blog has some posts on it.
- I am finalizing the blog design and structure.
This gives an idea of my thinking behind what I am doing with the photographer blog, and the work that is going into the planning before I launch the blog. It may seem like lots of lists at the moment, but all this planning beforehand will pay off in the long run once it launches and I have a to do list the length of my arm to complete. It will buy me the time I need to give the blog itself my full attention and hopefully get it off to a good start, without losing too much sleep in the process and getting too stressed out.
My aim is to plan ahead more with the posts for this blog so I know what I am doing more in advance. I will let you know how it all goes and how well it worked as I go along.
Thanks
Mandy
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I usually keep 2 lists going for my blog posts. One list is of post ideas, the other is my post schedule for the next week.
The list of post ideas are usually topics that will need some extra research before being published. Often they turn into post series
That’s a good point Sunny, I do something similar and it’s amazing how those ideas can turn into some really great posts!
I don’t have the best memory so if I didn’t have a pad to jot them down in, then I would definitely forget them.