This is part three of my Blogging 101 series. By now, you should be understanding the basics of creating a niche for your blog, as well as the process of building your community. Now it’s time to analyze your Daily To Do’s in order to continue to grow your blog into a business.
Below is a checklist of things you will need to do daily (or as much as possible) to grow your blog business.
Blog Business Checklist
Blog
Post a blog/vlog daily.
- Tweet 5 articles and/or posts from others (relevant to your niche for the most part)
- Tweet at least one interesting thing. A quote or something happening in your life that is relevant to your niche.
- Tweet one question to your followers. Make this as relevant to your topic as possible. Sometimes I do a “complete this sentence” tweet. Sometimes I ask a question with multiple choice. You get the idea.
- Follow at least 10 new people per day. One easy way to do this is to creep your favorite tweeps “Following” list.
- Tweet out your blog post. As soon as I finish my blog posts, I schedule three tweets spread throughout the day.
- Post a daily question then tweet out the question with a link back to your Facebook page.
- Post your blog post.
- Follow other blog pages on Facebook. You can tweet out this question daily to find them, “I would love to follow your blog on Facebook. Tweet me the link.”
Google+
Same as Facebook.
Every post should have a pinnable photo and you should EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. pin your daily post.
Emails
Respond to all emails you get from a PR agency. I have created several stock email responses that I can just cut, paste and personalize.
In Addition to Your Daily To Do’s:
- Keep an ongoing list of post ideas either on your phone or in a notebook that is always with you. You are busy and post ideas will pop in and be forgotten just as quickly unless you track them.
- Create Google Alerts for your niche and check in daily. You will get news and blog updates in your niche that will inspire post ideas.
- Create an editorial calendar. You will have categories within your niche and it will help you create post ideas and will help your readers know what to expect.
So there you go! Tell me, how many of these items do you actually accomplish on a regular basis? Are there any that I am missing? Let’s discuss in the comments below! Be sure to leave your additions to my blog business checklist.
About the Author:
Stefanie Mullen is the co-author of Chicken Soup for the Girlfriend’s Soul and owner and founder of Ooph.com, a site devoted to the parenting of tweens and teens. She is the co-host of Your Family Matters on WSRadio.com. Stefanie has been featured in the New York Times and has appeared on NBC, Fox, KUSI and NPR. Connect with Stefanie on Twitter @Ooph.
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Such a great and important list!
I am so far from being business ready. I do some of these things but wow and I am not working it like I should. Thanks for the list.
Stefanie! Thanks so much for this checklist! I am already doing a few of these things, but I am printing out this schedule to formalize it and make it a daily habit.
Really great tips! I especially like the ones about Twitter. I feel so lost with what I am supposed to do with Twitter.
Great check list, I just started my own checklist to keep me on track. Thanks for this post!
– Nancy On The Home Front
Hoot Suite has saved my life in terms of promoting posts!!! I love that it links to ALL of my social media sites 🙂
Brilliant, straight forward and pinned to my real life pin board as a daily reminder. Thank you. Oh it is also on my Pinterest board of course.
This is a wonderful checklist! Thank you so much for sharing. One question though, how do you deal with pinable images? I know how to create them, but so often I struggle with what to pin for a post if it isn’t instructional or a craft or something along those lines. Suggestions?
Going to print this out and live by it beginning tomorrow!! Thank you!
Simultaneously starting my adventures as a mom and a blogger, I have really found your blog articles so helpful! This article really gave me tips I needed to develop my own goals and make them happen. I even started my own iPhone daily reminders tab for my Daily Blog Goals all inspired by this article! Thank you thank you thank you!
Great checklist – I love it when things look doable!!
this is a really helpful post.Feel well organized if I have a check list like this..Thanks for sharing.
This is the first time I am visiting your blog. Those are some very helpful tips. I have just about got the hang of using twitter and hashtags. 🙂 I have been trying to do so many things a day and be consistent. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Thank you for the daily checklist. I have actually started keeping a blog calendar and this checklist will definitely come in handy,
Jae Mac @ I’m Just Sayin’…(Damn!)
Thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you for these great tips! What program do you use to schedule your tweets through out the day?
I do these things….except…..do I really need to post something on my blog DAILY? I personally get overwhelmed and have a hard time keeping up with bloggers who post daily. I’ve been trying to post every OTHER day.
Since I work from home in more than one role, I need the daily accountability of a checklist, but my poor blogging list looks nothing like yours. I will see how many of your tips I can incorporate. Thanks.
This is really great. Thanks for taking the time to help us become better at what we do!
I really need to listen to your TWITTER advice!!! I am not good with Twitter. I need someone to RUN THAT social media site FOR ME. LOL! I know that tweeting photos tends to be better than just plain text… Or is that FB? LOL!! Oh I have no clue! Ah ha ha ha!!! Oh and as for the followers thing – I don’t want to go above 626 (me following others) because that’s my lucky NUMBER! ahhhh ha ha ah aha h! I am ridiculous!
Great checklist, thanks so much!
Just what I needed to help mr focus
I only consistently do one or two of these things. Lots for me to think about. I will print this out and set up some alerts. Thanks!
As a new blogger, this is great! I haven’t gotten into Pinterest, yet. As a Mom/Disney blogger, I will need to start getting on board! Also, do you find it’s better to master a few of these platforms well and then expand? For example, Google+. I have a page, but haven’t done much with it. Will I spread myself too thin too quickly if I try to do all of this? Going to start pouring through your site now! Thanks!
I love this post. I’m printing it out to keep it handy.
This is exactly what I needed! I have a hard time making sure I follow through with each social outlet every day. It’s nice to know exactly what I should be doing each day. Thanks!
I love this CHECK LIST SO HELPFUL!!!
Awesome checklist! I don’t have one written down, but always try to have a mental one.
I need to get back on my Twitter game – I am pretty good about Facebook and Pinterest. Since I do work outside the home, I find it hard to Twitter – but I can use Buffer or Hootsuit to set the tweets to post throughout the day…..
Great article! Thanks!
Great advice and tips! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Great info! I will now be an avid reader! You have so much to offer and I’m so thankful I found you and that you ladies are teaching the ropes! How do I set up google alerts?
I used to try to keep a daily checklist of blog and social media maintenance years ago, but I must admit I didn’t stick to it. I find that it’s much easier for me to just read and respond to articles I like when I have down time, because otherwise I feel like I drown myself online and lose hours of time that I could be spending doing more income specific activities. If checklists are your thing, though, this is a very useful list!
What do you do when you’ve maxed out the number of Twitter follows? How do you weed out who to stop following?
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