Think Like An Editor

I’m writing a series of posts over at Colourlovers for HP and what follows below is an excerpt from today’s post. I’m also doing some fun video interviews with real small business called Local Color.

So often content producers have no real plan. If they write a blog they simply decide that day what they plan to write. First off, this makes the writing process more difficult and makes repurposing much harder.

Effective reuse comes from planned reuse. The best tip I can give you is to sit down once a month or so and create an editorial calendar. This allows you to create some goals, but it also allows you to think big picture about what needs to be written to create a body of work that will have multiple uses.

You can always slip hot topics into your calendar on the fly, but you’ll find that if you do keyword research for your industry and use that list for topic focus, you’ll get far more bang for what you write and you won’t feel nearly as much pressure always trying to come up with topics.

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Jul 27, 10 | 12:12 pm
Category: Branding, Marketing Strategy, Web Marketing | Tags: , , ,

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  • John,

    You're absolutely right about the planning.

    I'm writing a book, one blog post at a time, that should be finished in early September. Many of these blog posts began as tweets or comments I posted on other blogs, all with the main idea of the book in mind.

    It's amazing what a little planning can help you do :-)


  • This was a very interesting read with an abundance
    of information within! Very good work by the author!
    Thank you for sharing this with us!
  • You are absolutely right that planning is required before writing any topic but planning one month before would be not ideal for blog writer they must be updated day by day with their blog site by writing real time content.
  • As someone who just writes without much planning, I can appreciate the reuse issue. That being said, I feel that some of my best writing comes from just sitting down and letting thoughts flow through my fingers - even if I'm afraid things are scattered and illogical.
  • I don't disagree with your thinking on this but it all comes down to objectives - I always leave room for thoughts that get in my head during a morning run, but I know what I need cover during the month for my SEO and repurpose goals as well - I written the bulk of two book proposals by working ideas out in blog posts and associated comments.
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