How To Schedule Your Blog Tasks

After blogging for almost three years, I've finally created the perfect blogging routine. Out of all of the things I've learned from blogging, one of them is that you can't do everything you need to do for your blog all at once. In order to make sure your content and pictures are your best quality, it's a smart move to divide your blog planning into three separate days.

S U N D A Y -- post ideas + pictures

I like to reserve Sundays (or Saturdays for you if you have the time) for brainstorming post ideas and taking/creating pictures for the following two weeks. I'll sit down with my blog planner and fill in post titles with key points to include for each day. This will give me an idea of any pictures I need to take/create! If I have a couple of outfits that I want to feature, I'll use Sunday for the shoots. Some bloggers prefer to do only shoot for a day, but I like to do multiple outfit shoots at once to get them over with. If I have any posts that I need to create graphics for, I'll spend time doing that as well.

T U E S D A Y -- blog posts

Tuesday is when I write the actual blog posts, which takes the most time. I spend at least half an hour on each post due to writing, editing, implementing pictures, etc. I'll write and edit the posts for the next two weeks and make sure they're scheduled and ready to go! Making sure the blog posts are complete allows me to prepare social media posts, which is for the following day.

T H U R S D A Y -- social media

Thursday focuses solely on social media -- Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. I use a social media calendar to write the date of each post, the time of each post, the platform of each post, the goal of each post, the content of each post, the picture of each post, and the link of each post. It's a lot to consider, but it seriously helps. Twitter and Facebook are the only platforms I use for my blog every day, so already knowing what I need to post on these sites is extremely helpful. I use Pinterest every time I have a picture in my blog post, but I don't always use pictures in each blog post. I use Instagram the least, but I would like to use it more. And of course, already having pictures to use is really helpful when making these posts! After I have my social media calendar filled out, I use Hootsuite to schedule tweets and I use the scheduling feature on Facebook to schedule posts.

This schedule works well for me, but it may not work well for everyone! It took a lot of trial and error to finally find a routine that felt just right to me -- which may be the same case for you. One tip is to utilize your free time -- use any extra time to get blogging tasks done! I didn't really need to follow this schedule this summer because I had so much extra time that I didn't really need to worry about getting things done; they just happened. But once school starts, I need this routine to keep me on task and motivated!

How do you schedule your blog tasks?