I’ve been scouring the internet for some kind of blog post planner to help me organize my posts, ideas, reviews, giveaways. And I mean, it had to be pretty right? Sadly I haven’t found one that has exactly what I’m after, so I made one and wanted to share it with any of you out there looking for a planner too!
Introducing the 2012 Blog Post Planner!
Monthly Planner Page One:
Each month has a different color scheme and two information pages with it. The first page is a month layout. The dates are listed along the left side of the sheet, then there is room for the Topic or Title of your post, and Category/Tag (In Blogger, these are called Labels). Next to that are little check boxes to note if the post is a review and/or giveaway. There is also a winner box so that I can check that once my winner is selected and an email has been sent to them along with a post created. That way I won’t forget to pick my winners!
Next are social media check boxes, one for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. I check those to indicate that my post has been shared to all of my social media outlets.
Monthly Planner Page Deux:
The second page of each month has a spot for review details. This is where I add the due date of the post, the vendor, product, and product pricing. This helps me to keep reviews scheduled and not commit to anything that I can’t deliver! It also helps me keep track of product prices for my taxes.
This page also has a spot for post ideas so that in the event I have an epiphany, I can quickly jot down my idea for the month here so it’s not lost in all of the information swirling around in my head. I seem to have a finite amount of space up there these days!
I had mine spiral bound so it is easy to flip back and forth. It was only a few dollars to get it done at Office Depot, and they even put on a clear plastic cover just to help protect it.
And that’s it! I find that keeping my planner handy is the best way for me to keep all of my ideas and posts organized!
I hope the blog post planner can help some of you! If you have any suggestions on making it better, feel free to shoot me an email or leave a comment, I’d love to hear suggestions!
–> Download the 2012 Blog Post Planner <–
P.S. Since it’s already April, this planner has pages for April 2012 – December2012 included in it.
Happy Blogging!
This is freaking awesome. Thanks for sharing it!!
Thank you so much for your quick response… you really care for your readers 🙂
It is working perfectly now.
Thanks again for sharing.
I love this! Thank you for sharing!
Just gorgeous, am so going to print it. It’s just going to take me a little getting used to the dates that way, as over this way of the world we go day/month/year. Thank you for sharing your talents, again and again and again!
Thanks Erica, I was using the same format from List Plan It, but I was filling in all of my dates and days of the week down the left side, NOT ANY MORE!!! I am using yours starting in May 😉
Thank you for this, I downloaded it printed it via Kinkos and had them bind it for me. I just blogged about it and linked it back to your post.
here is the link to my post
http://motivatedmommyoftwo.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-do-you-organize-your-blog-posts.html
I hope this is ok with you.
Shirley
Great resource!
I found your website over at Cathy Cl Hall’s blog. Thanks for sharing.
Erica, this is the most awesome thing EVER! I found you thanks to Stacy, who pointed me to Cathy, who pointed me to you, and boy am I glad I followed the links! I am printing it right now, and thank you so much!
I love this planner! I really really would love to have one with linky parties on it so I can track when I post to one. I think I can adapt the checklist you have though. Thanks!!
I realize this post was published awhile ago, but I wanted to know if you’d come out with another one for the year 2012-2013? I realize it’s a ways away, but I couldn’t help but ask 🙂
I have been looking everywhere for something “just” like this and couldn’t make one that was what I wanted. Thanks so much for this, and I would love to know if your gonna have one for 2013 as well!!