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You're already taking a big step to get your marketing organized this year! Time to get to work brainstorming and planning your monthly content.
Follow the process at messengersmith.com/how-to-plan-a-years-worth-of-content

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Business GoalWhat you want your content to accomplish for you this month? Generate sign ups, launch a new product, build awareness of a promotion
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Significant eventsPreplanned sales, events, interviews, holidays etc
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ThemeHow you will tie your content together to achieve your goal and fulfill a need of your ideal customer?
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Blog Post Topic breaking down how to solve an audience problem
Reel: Summarizing part of blog post with call to action to read more at link in bio
Newsletter with link to blog post, your product/services related to topic and any other relavant content you wish to share with subscribers
Carousel: Single concept you cover in your blog post broken down into multiple images with call to action to read more at the link in your bio
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Graphic: What problem does this blog post help your customers solve?
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Poll: Do you ever have X problem? Yes/No
Question box: Question related to your blog post topic
Sign up for newsletter coming out this week!
Caption of your post broken up into multiple story slides
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Share blog post topic #1 with call to action to click the link in your bio
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CONTENT IDEASCOLOR CODE
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Space for brainstorming content pieces surrounding your theme before you plug them into the calendarProjectColour
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