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I have a couple of journals/notebooks that I use for different aspects of my blog. The first is for my blog posts; It can be hard to keep a track of what posts I'm going to publish when. This will keep me on top of sponsored post deadlines as well which unfortunately as I said before, I haven't been too great with lately. It's also helping me massively with Blogmas, which I thought I would struggle massively with when I first thought of doing it. I've written most of my Blogmas posts towards the end of November and keeping track of when I will be posting each post in my journal is making planning so much easier.
The second journal is a generalised journal; I use it for keeping a hold on my stats, emails of my bloggy chums, PR contacts and blog post ideas whenever I get them. I find that this notebook is so helpful to keep track of who I'm advertising for and when to send them things such as my blog button, blog blurb and my links. I would really recommend getting a little notebook / section of a notebook for this as I find it such a big help! It can be so easy to forget who needs to be sent what when! I also like to keep track of my daily page views in this notebook, I know that many analytic sites do this for you, but this is a way for me to keep my daily stats and to check them and monitor them for future reference.
Lastly, I use a calendar to keep a track of payment dates for advertising and for guest post deadlines. Keeping track of when I paid for advertising packages is really useful to me as it reminds me when I need to send them certain things (blog button, blurb etc). I also like to have my guest posts emailed to me twice before I publish them, a draft and then the final deadline, I find keeping track of when I need to email people reminders and when other bloggers need to email me their posts is a lot easier than just trying to remember who is who and who is posting when. Currently I am using the calendar on my iPad but hope to get a larger wall calendar towards the end of the year - Yes, I'm hoping McFly bring one out soonish!
What are your blog organisation tips?
Let me know in the comments below.
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OMG! my life has been so hectic lately its been come as you are for over a month now haha!! but these are great tips and I shall apply them once i get some sort of normalcy in my life :) xxoo
ReplyDeleteAh that's so great to hear! Glad to know you think they're worth following! :) XX
DeleteI love keeping journals, there is nothing better than keeping notes with pen and paper! I seem to take things more seriously when they are written down too. Great post!
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I know exactly what you mean. I'm starting a new job tomorrow and I'm just going to love having my journal with me to keep up with ideas that pop into my head througout the day xx
DeleteI keep my blog ideas in a journal too, its so great for when you have a random/spontaneous idea that you want to remember :)
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I completely agree! I'm such an organisation freak and If I can't have my ideas jotted down I go crazy ahah xx
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