Comments on: Plan Your Next Week’s Posting Schedule

By: loue

loue — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:57:06 +0000

Great topic, I started blogging for fun and with my cousin’s inspiring sum that goes to her account. Now I’m seriously thinking of blogging as a way to earn extra bucks, but I always have the tendency to just start typing whtever i feel like writing, with your tips of planning what to blog. I think this is the best way to start best. thanks!

By: Samuel Van Der Wall

Samuel Van Der Wall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:18:21 +0000

Great post. I followed the instructions for this week and next week’s posts. I’ve already got the next two weeks planned out, half of the posts are completed, and they are of higher quality than my regular posts. And it took less time!

By: Freeware

Freeware — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:21:36 +0000

This is a really helpful post, I’m going to give this a try. Anything to help improve time management is a good thing!

By: brown

brown — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:50:38 +0000

Quite good article, I’ll try to implement these ideas of planning. Thanks Darren!

By: Busy Mom

Busy Mom — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:19:11 +0000

I am the definition of “impulsive” blogger. Yeah, I know I hide it well, huh?

You have inspired me to try to gain a little method to my madness.

By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Rebecca Laffar-Smith — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:11:42 +0000

One problem I’ve found now that I preplan my week is that I’m constantly having fresh, new ideas. I know, it doesn’t sound like a problem does it? But it is, because I’ve already got a months worth of topics to write about and either need to slip this in somewhere or keep a note card going for all these ideas that just won’t fit into the current post schedule. My note card keeps growing!

Another advantage of the preplanned schedule is when I’m browsing and find a website, article, or blog entry elsewhere that relates to an upcoming topic I can add the URL to my notes and link to it in the entry.

It’s also fantastic for planning post series! Of course, post series just aggravate my first problem of too many ideas because it’s like having multiple entries on one expanded topic.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:41:27 +0000

These are really great ideas. Thanks for sharing them.

By: Ben Licher

Ben Licher — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:49:21 +0000

I use Google notebook and Google docs to plan my articles, collect ideas, using the same labels that I use on my blogs. I write down ideas in my scheduler when I’m not behind my laptop and put them in Google docs as soon as I can. Only when an article is ready to publish I put it in my WordPress blog, check it again and publish or timestamp it.

It really works for me.

I start writing series in one document. This gives me a better overview of what I’ve been writing and still have to write. When a part is published I mark it with a different color letter. I can refer to an article easier.

By: John Richardson

John Richardson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:23:41 +0000

Wow Darren, I read your post and took one of my blogging ideas and turned it into three post ideas in five minutes. I’m usually pretty impulsive, but your story really hit home. I manage my blogging time by working in 48 minute focused sessions, but your little tweak may help me take it to the next level..

Thanks,

John Richardson

By: GP

GP — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:41:57 +0000

I tend to do both… get inspiration/idea and then come up with… a plan

gp in montana

By: dcrmom

dcrmom — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:07:14 +0000

I do a little of both, because I tend to blog about what’s going on in my life at the moment. But I definitely write whatever is going on in my head and save them up in my draft folder, and I do a lot of “pre-publishing”. This is a great series! I’m just starting to read through them all.

By: Brandie Kajino

Brandie Kajino — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:55:44 +0000

What a great post! I came in the middle of this series so I’m catching up.
I have a list on my Palm Treo when an idea strikes me. However, I’m wanting a more scheduled approach – maybe writing them on a couple different days, and post dating them. Thanks for the inspiration and great info!

By: alex miller

alex miller — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:20:34 +0000

Well, I have moved from an impulsive blogger to an impulsive planner! BUT, it sounds like this is the solution to ALL my problems! My life must not be that bad then huh?

Thanks Darren.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:26:45 +0000

Great ideas! Planning is essential if you want to make a good living as a blogger I think. I really need to improve that! Thanks!

By: Ryan Paul

Ryan Paul — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:07:31 +0000

I’d much rather read a spontaneous blog based upon emotion and feeling than something that felt automated and robotic.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:41:36 +0000

This is the best post yet in this series!

I try to plan ahead, but I´m not terribly consistent. Since my toddler hates me being on the computer, I have taken to writing out my blog post ideas in a notebook while he is playing outside. I have a notebook where the whole first half is specifically for ideas, separated by blog. Then the back half is again separated by blog and that is where I further develop the idea, writing out possible titles, points, etc.

I certainly need to make this more of a constant thing. It´s hard getting everything organized, but well worth the effort! Maybe we should all lose our computers (just kidding, that would be a disaster!)

By: Steven Rigney

Steven Rigney — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:06:01 +0000

Eureka. Planning is what I needed. For years now I’ve been blogging only what would strike me as interesting enough to blog, personal life, news, whatever, no real focus. The past 2 or 3 weeks though things have started working better, after reading this I realize that it’s because I have started to plan without planning to. I have just been more diligent about keeping a written list of topics and already started blog posts.

I like this idea of planning out a week in advance. Some people have a clear list of topics and every Monday will cover one topic, then Tuesday another, what do you think about that? Some of those sites I like, but I feel that they pin themselves down too much.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:41:17 +0000

Darren, I just wanted to drop a comment to say I’m enjoying this better blog series immensely. Just when I thought you’d run out of things to say on the topic of blogging, you come out with possibly one of the most practically useful series of posts this year!

I’m particularly loving the coaching style that comes with having homework assignments. I haven’t acted on all of them, but this planning post is something that I’ve been working on independently and I’m especially keen to progress. If you’re someone who works on multiple blogs, pre-planning is the smartest way to work.

By: Junping

Junping — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:02:23 +0000

As a beginner, I have yet experience a sick day in my blogging days. However, with your post, I’ve learnt how to cope with it. Thanks for the fantastic tips and guidance! Certainly helps beginners like me! Keep posting for us to learn!

By: - Spaceman Spiff -

- Spaceman Spiff - — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:41:12 +0000

I feel the same way most of the people commenting seem to feel. I am glad i read this now. I have a couple of days off work this week and I plan on haulin’ tail to create some blog padding. I started doing some pre-planning today for the rest of the week. I have most of the articles ready to be written.

This is perfect timing for me because I am a college student (Greenville.edu) and school is about to start up again. I need to have some sort of plan in place to keep putting content up once I go back to school. It seems to be working…I just need to continue.