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After my post on Monday, I was surprised at how many of you thought it was pretty genius to draft in Word. I was even more surprised to hear how many of you are interested in long term goals for your blog, but don’t know where to start. I get it. It can feel SUPER overwhelming to think that far into the future.
[Tweet ” Blogging without goals is like taking a road trip without a map.”]
You’ll wander along the open road and jump at every opportunity that seems fun and exciting. Instead of staying focused on where you want to get, you’ll take a lot of wrong turns while you’re trying to find the right way.
Without a doubt the best $15.00 I’ve ever invested in myself and this blog is the How They Blog Blog Planning Kit by Kat Lee.
Using the Blog Planning Kit has helped me develop a complete plan for A Cookie Before Dinner. It is a self guided printable workbook that has helped me figure out everything from what my 5 year goals for A Cookie Before Dinner, who my target reader is and what kind of content she’s looking for, to what sets me apart from others in my niche.
There are daily and weekly task sheets, a prompt that will help you figure out just how much time you REALLY have to dedicate to blogging, and pages to help you nail tasks for long term projects.
If you are someone who is serious about becoming a focused and intentional blogger, someone who wants less fuss and more freedom in your writing, this is a product you need. It has changed my entire outlook on blogging. It has taken me from a someone who felt like she was drifting along without a goal to someone who knows what is coming next.
[Tweet “I know where I’m going and what I’m writing about thanks to the Blog Planning Kit.”]
The kit is 48 pages long. You can print it out or work with it right on your completer, it is a fully editable document. I printed mine out, got some colored pens, and took myself out on a coffee date. It was so much fun to sit and dream about this space.
Here is what you get with the Blog Planning Kit:
- 20 professionally designed AND EDITABLE* forms including:
- Brainstorm Starter
- Niche Discovery
- Niche Evaluation
- Target Reader Analysis
- Time Evaluation
- Lifetime Goals Planning Page
- Short Term Goals Planning Page
- Simple Project Planner
- Full Page Project Planner
- Yearly Overview
- Target Audience Worksheet
- Monthly Overview
- Weekly Blog Planner
- Weekly Review
- Daily Action Planner
- Blog Post Idea Tracker
- Blog Stats Tracker
- Financial Tracker
- My Notes
- Custom Cover Page
- A complete 25+ page guidebook that will take you through the entire system.
- A video tutorial showing exactly how Kat Lee uses the forms in her day to day blogging.
I’ve been tempted more than once to buy the blog planning kit! I really love the How They Blog podcast. I think I’ve already gotten most of these ebook in another bundle, though. I wonder if I already have the kit?!
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I know these books are different than the ones that were in prior bundles. I know for sure that this is the first time the blog planning kit has been a part of ANY bundle.
Either way, it is an amazing product. It totally changed how I blog!
NJ and Sarah,
I just thought I’d jump in and say thanks for the shout out (so nice of you!) and confirm what NJ said. This is the first time the Blog Planning Kit has participated in any sort of bundle.
I’m so glad you like the podcast, too Sarah!
Hey Kat!
Thanks for popping by my space today. I’m so glad you made the blog planning kit, it has seriously changed the entire way I think about blogging!
Thanks for this, I’m really tempted by the Blog Planning Kit. My blog is a bit of a hybrid between blog and professional website (I’m a writer, so they go together!) which most of the time works for me, but other times I drift between focussing on the blogging aspect and fiction aspects… and worry that I end up succeeding in neither! Sounds like this might be something to help me nail it down once and for all!
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Claire, the blog planning kit is amazing. It has helped me with my focus so much!
Can’t wait to check out the podcast! Thank you for this very helpful post! I have started writing in Word ever since your post, and it is so much better! :)-Ashley
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Writing in Word has literally changed my blogging life. I can’t believe how much more I can get done if I don’t have a twitter tab open!
Wow! That’s a lot of great information!!
There a ton of great books available in this bundle, for sure! I snagged a set, because I could’t resist!
I JUST got the blog planning kit after seeing a code for it in a newsletter and listening to her podcast for months. I’ve wanted to get it for months but was scared and overwhelmed…okay I’M STILL overwhelmed…i’m all OMG THIS IS A LOT OF INFO WHERE DO I EVEN START?!!? Hoping to regroup my blog ideas though by getting it 🙂
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