Are you feeling like you're in the content planning? Messy middle, like things aren't necessarily terrible, they could be better when it comes to planning your content, or maybe are feeling like, Oh, I am kind of flying by the seat of my pants. Well, I wanted to do a replay of our episode 126 that came out in 2022. And in this episode, I am sharing five of my top content planning tips. So you're going to learn tools, tactics to save you time, how to establish and refine your content pillars, and how to create content that converts. You're also going to learn for Formula strategies for your blog post titles to make sure they get clicked on. So if you've been creating blog post titles, you're feeling a little iffy there. Then I've got some formulas for you. So this episode is jam packed with information and one that I wanted to resurface to the top and get it back in front of you to listen if you haven't already or to re listen, because it is full of gems that is going to help you for you know we're almost at the end of quarter one, we're going into quarter two. So let's get our content planned for quarter two together. This podcast is brought to you by the profitable blogger society, a mentorship program that gives bloggers direction for increasing their income and growing their brand to thrive together dot blog slash Pb S to learn more and enroll today. Welcome to the Thrive Podcast. I'm prepare your host and blogging coach here to help you take your brand to the next level. At thrive, we're dedicated to bringing bloggers and influencers tactics, strategies, and behind the scenes info from the best in the business. We know that you have a big vision for your brand and life. And we're here to support you with blogging and social media tutorials, workshops, a community and of course, this podcast, just head to thrive together dot blog for all the latest tools. If you're ready to grow your brand and looking for education and encouragement, then you've come to the right place. Now let's get ready to thrive. Hey blogging babes. Welcome back to another episode. Happy January Happy New Year, everyone. We are in it, we are in the New Year, which looks like looking over everything that is to come and planning out what we want to make happen this year. And so we've talked in the past a couple episodes back about looking at everything that happened in the last year doing that evaluation, and really determining what you want to make happen this year for your business. All right. So if you haven't listened to that episode, go back and listen to it, do the homework, do all the things that you need to do to be able to reflect and grow this year instead of repeating some of those past mistakes that you may have made. Now, the awesome thing about this time is that you're able to really look at the entire year. And even if you're listening to this episode, in the middle of the year, maybe you found it in September, whenever it may be, you're still able to look at an entire year from whatever month end date you're looking you're in right now as you're listening to this, you're able to look at an entire year and determine what type of content am I going to release for the next 12 months. So today, we are going to cover five different content planning tips. And the I'm going to walk you through each of these quick little tips to just help you as you're sitting down with that fresh piece of paper. Maybe it's a brand new planner, or maybe you have found a online tool that you use and love to plan your content in. And we're just going to look at the year as a whole and figure out what type of content we're going to release and win. Now this doesn't have to be hyper specific, but it is really good to at least have something kind of penciled in for a majority of the calendar year. Because as you guys know, it just seems like everything goes by so fast. And when we're in it, and we're busy. Life happens, things happen. Somebody gets sick. You have to shift a work schedule. You have to take care of something you didn't plan on vacations, all these different things. Some of them we can plan for like maybe vacations or weddings or anything fun and happy and exciting like that. And then sometimes there's things that are unexpected, right and so when we content Unlike this, and when we just even gently have an idea of what's going to happen, our stress levels will go down, first of all, and then when something does occur, we're like, it's okay. I've got a plan, right. So step number one is to have a favorite tool that you use for organizing your content plan. Now, for me, I use online tools for this. So I love to use Asana, and Google business. So that means like the Google Docs, the Google Spreadsheet, things like that. Those are two of my favorite planning tools online. Other ones that I have used before and love, but I'm not currently using our Trello. And also Evernote. I think Evernote is a really cool place to capture blog post ideas, especially as you're out and about because you can also have the app on your phone. And so if you think of an idea, you can quickly just jot it down in Evernote. And you can pull it up on your desktop later, when you want to import it into, you know, whatever tool that you'd like to use for organizing everything. So that is tip number one is just get a favorite tool that you love and commit to using. Oftentimes what can happen, especially when you're first getting started, is you'll try out different tools. And you won't commit completely right like you don't use it as often as you should to give it that full try, right. And so you only look at it when you want the month. And then it's like, oh, I didn't do any of that. Right? I can't be the only one that this has happened to. So make sure it's something that you're looking at and using. On a daily basis, make sure you know all of these pretty much have an app that you can pull up on your phone, if you're not on your laptop every single day, you can still pull those up and skim through things and just kind of remind yourself, oh, yeah, that was what I was going to talk about this week, which is just going to make it easier on yourself, the more you use it, and the more you put it in there, it's going to make it so much easier for yourself in the long run. So that's what I use for online tools for organizing. And then I also have a paper planner, you guys know, if you've been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you know that I am obsessed with my golden coil planner. It's 100% customizable, and I pick the layout and everything that works best for my brain. And so that's what I love about it. And so I then used a paper planner every single day. And that's where I put my like daily tasks or meetings, appointments, things that I have to do is more in there. But an online tool is just for your big vision, big looking at things, typing things out really quick linking to other docs, anything you might need articles, and so forth images. For organizing, it would be really hard for me personally to use a paper planner for that, because I think content is also evolving and changing and moving around. And so it'd be a lot of erasing and moving things constantly. So