Kerrie Legend has come up with an incredibly useful product, aimed especially at bloggers, writers, and entrepreneurs. This (Dec 2018) would be an excellent time to begin with this, since it starts with a year-in-review section. This part is a series of good questions about you did, what you tried, what worked well, etc. Called “Celebrate the Past’, the queries are all of a positive nature. Next, “Back to Basics” include an Executive Summary, a Blog Business Description, Competitor Analysis, Audience Research, and Building Community. Following are sections on Products or Service (WHAT will hopefully bring in the dollars – and Marketing and Sales Strategy (HOW you will make those dollars flow to you.) A comprehensive Blog Style Guide ends this section. Strategy and Results, the next section include Future Planning — Ideas, Keyword Ideas. a “monthly calendar” for web stats, and quite unique, a Hashtag Sheet with suggested hashtags for Writers, Designer/Creatives, Bloggers, and Career Woman/Positive Vibes. A section for Prioritizing, aimed at getting income in ASAP is a welcome addition, as is a page on Visualization.
Next comes the detailed record-keeping section. Each month has a monthly review, with room for Triumphs, Challenges, a Persist & Persevere bucket and a place for Tweaks, Gratitude and Goals/Adjustments. There are places for “this month’s theme”, Focus Areas, a To-Do list, Key Connections, “I Want to Learn”, New things to do and Goals. Each month that begins a new Quarter has a 90 Day Planner. Pages for Blog Post Ideas, Brainstorming, Weekly Planners with its own to-do list and day-to-day schedule for each week are in each month’s section.
Several business checklists for blog posts and info products follow, then several pages of single words with a checkbox for each listed as Core Values. A month-per-page calendar planner conclude the workbook.
Extensive? Yes. Exhausting? Not really. Ask me again in January 2020, after I spend a year with this very useful tool