The Ultimate

Blogging
Binder
 Contents:

1. Affirmations- print and stick up around the house where you can see them often
2. Style Sheet
3. Focus Worksheet
4. Blog Password Tracker
5. Affiliate Program Tracker
6. Sponsored Posts Tracker
7. Contacts
8. Yearly Stats Tracker
9. Monthly Stats Tracker
10. Blogging Goals
• How to Use Worksheets
• 5-Year
• 1-Year
• Quarterly Breakdown
• Quarterly
• Monthly
• Weekly
• Daily
13. Seasonal Brainstorming
14. Category Brainstorming
15. Blog Post Brainstorming
16. Guest Posts Pitches Tracker
17. Expense and Income Worksheet
18. Facebook & Pinterest Ad Tracker
19. Calendars
20. Month in Review
21. Year in Review

Copyright © 2019 by Jennifer J Landsberger

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner
without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in
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I know what I
want in my i am
life and will
achieve it worthy
i am able to
achieve i can do
whatever i this
desire
I am
capable of
anything
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 Style Sheet
Fonts: Colors:
______________________________________ Name Hex RGB CMYK

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Notes:

Paste ____________________________________________
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Logo ____________________________________________
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Here ____________________________________________
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Image Sizing:

Featured Image: ______ pixels x ______ pixels Sidebar: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

Pinterest: ______ pixels x ______ pixels Facebook: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

Pinterest: ______ pixels x ______ pixels Instagram: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

Twitter: ______ pixels x ______ pixels _____________: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

_____________: ______ pixels x ______ pixels _____________: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

_____________: ______ pixels x ______ pixels _____________: ______ pixels x ______ pixels

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 Focus Worksheet
What is your why? Why are you blogging? Who do I blog for?
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______________________________________ What do I blog about?
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______________________________________ Where am I at right now?
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One word that describes my blog:
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Where do I want to be a year from now?
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Current Challenge: How to Overcome It:

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 Passwords
Site Username Password Password Hint

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 Affiliate Programs
Program/Network Name Log-in Information % Earned/Payment Threshold Where am I promoting this?

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 Sponsored Posts
Brand Posts & Share Requirements: Due Date: Payment:

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 Contacts
Name E-mail Phone Number Address

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 Yearly Statistics
Month Sessions Page Views PV/Session E-mail Pinterest Facebook Instagram

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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 Monthly Statistics
Monthly Sessions: __________ My top 5 posts for the month:
Monthly Users: __________ 1)
Monthly Page Views: __________ 2)
#______ _____ % Organic Search 3)
#______ _____ % Social 4)
#______ _____ % Direct 5)
#______ _____ % Referral
#______ _____ % Other E-mail Subscribers: __________
Pages/Session: __________ Facebook Followers: __________
Session Duration: _________ Pinterest Followers: __________
Bounce Rate: __________ Instagram Followers: __________
________________: __________
Social Traffic: ________________: __________
_____ % Pinterest
_____ % Facebook Blog Income Report:
_____ % Instagram Total Earned: $_________
_____ % ___________ $_____ Ad networks = _____%
_____ % ___________ $_____ Affiliate Sales = _____%
$_____ Sponsored = _____%
$_____ Products = _____%
$_____ Other: _______ = _____%

3 Things I Achieved Last Month:

1)
2)
3)

3 Goals for Next Month:

1)
2)
3)

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 Turning Goals into Reality
Do you know the best way to set goals? Perhaps you’ve heard to start with daily tasks.
These daily tasks add up and you reach your final goal. That’s what I used to think.

Turns out I was wrong.

The best way is the exact opposite: start with the big goal and break it down into small
steps. Below is a summary of the breakdown. I included an example of one of my goals for 2018
below that to illustrate the idea.

1. 5-Year Breakdown: Think big and decide where you want to be in 5 years. Set milestones
for each year.

2. Yearly: decide where you want to be in one year. Think big. Write it down. Also write down
why this goal is so important to you.
There are also spots to write down ‘family,’ ‘personal -or- health,’ ‘financial,’ and ‘misc.
goals.’ You’re not going to do the breakdown on these; it is just to help define what you want and
help keep a balance.

3. Quarterly Breakdown: Look at the quarterly breakdown worksheet. Write your major
goal at the top. Now, break it down into 4 milestones. Under each, write a couple of specific
steps. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter don’t need to be detailed. Just a general idea where you
want to be.

4. Quarterly: Examine your first quarter goal from the quarterly breakdown sheet. Now we’re
going to get specific. Write down specific things that need to be accomplished this quarter.
Pick between 3 and 5 items that will fulfill your quarterly goal.
Also pick out some focus areas for the other areas in your life. While you might not be
setting specific goals, it will remind you to practice balance.

5. Monthly Plan out 2 to 4 very specific things that need done this month to reach your
quarterly goals. There is a small section for “secondary tasks”: items to complete if you have
time.

6. Weekly Planner. Look at your monthly goals. Write down 2-3 specific things that need
done THIS WEEK that will help reach your monthly goals. Remember, you don’t need to
complete your monthly goals this week!
Optional: pick out at least one important thing to do this week for each of the other areas
in your life.

7. Daily: Planner that allows for time-blocking.

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 Example
Example:
-Note: I didn’t use a 5-year planner then. But here’s what I have now:
End of year 2019- 15K email subscribers/ 75K page views month/ $500 income monthly
End of year 2020- 25K email subscribers/ 150K page views month/ $1K income monthly
End of year 2021- 40K email subscribers/ 300K page views month/ $ 5K income monthly
End of year 2022- 60K email subscribers/ 600K page views month/ $10K income monthly

1. One of my yearly goals for 2018 was to launch my own product and make $1,000 off the
product. Since I’d NEVER sold anything of my own before, this seemed pretty crazy to me at the
time. Also, I had no idea what to sell. Printables? A course? An e-book? So at the beginning of the
year, I filled out my worksheets as follows:

2. Quarterly breakdown worksheet:

First quarter) Decide on a product. Develop product.
Second quarter) Research exactly how to sell- what platform will I use (WooCommerce, Etsy,
Gumroad, Shopify?). Set it up on my website.
Third quarter) Give out a few free products. Make sure process works. Get testimonials. Start
selling.
Fourth quarter) Aggressive marketing to sell. Read customer feedback, change product if
necessary. Start planning for next year.

3. Now, looking at the first quarter. See that my first quarter goal (Deciding on a product, then
developing it) was much easier than the crazy end goal!
In this case, I chose:
-Brainstorm product ideas
- Pros and cons of each idea
-Decide on idea
-Develop product

4. Monthly planner: well, looking at my quarterly goals, it was easy to see that a couple of them
needed to be done before the others. Obviously, developing the product was impossible until I had
decided on a product, etc. And I couldn’t make a GOOD decision until I’d brainstormed and looked
at pros and cons.
So, first month I decided to brainstorm ideas and look at the pros and cons.
I left actually deciding on the product and developing it for months 2 & 3.

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 Example (continued)
5. Weekly worksheet: I had one month to brainstorm ideas and look at the pros and cons. So
the first week, I wrote down every idea that came to mind and in as much detail as I could
imagine. For example, if I thought of doing a course, I also included the various options: video
or e-mail, 7-day, 14-day, or 30-day, etc. And that’s just one idea’s breakdown.
In addition, I wrote down pros and cons as I went along. But it was the secondary priority
that week. If it didn’t get done, I’ll could always do it the following week.
• For my family, husband and I were going to spend an evening together.
• For health, I was going to exercise 3 times this week.
• For financials, I was going to track receipts and update our budget for the month.
• For misc., I was going to focus on self by reading my devotionals every day.

While I officially worked on the week 2 worksheet towards the end of the week, I knew at
the time I would be looking at the pros and cons of my various product ideas.
Week 3 included asking my readers (maybe in e-mail and on Facebook) what they would
be interested in.
Week 4- nothing for sure yet…but since I would probably be ahead of schedule (trust me,
this method leads to you achieving more than you thought possible), I’ll probably decide on the
product and start organizing how to develop it!

6. Daily planner: I put any appointments in their spot. If I’m exercising that day, I block it in. I
schedule meal making. Then I fill in around it.
• The “today’s big three”- at least one item is always something that works towards my
weekly goal. I usually try to dedicate one to either health -or- family. Others are dependent upon
the day.
• For my first day, my big item (that works towards my yearly goal) is setting up a
document to organize my brainstorming ideas, including areas for a description of idea, pros and
cons, etc.

~Since this was 2018 goals, are you interested in how the system worked out for me?

Well, setting specific monthly, weekly, and daily tasks worked so well that I ended up launching
my product on July 1st. Yep, six months early. In fact, I also ended up starting an Etsy store with
extra products and am working on an expanded version of my product that I’m launching the
last week of the year. (Just in time for people to get organized for the New Year!). In other words,
I smashed it out of the ballpark.

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 Goals vs. Systems
This is a small section on mindset. The above goal-setting system works because it uses the
following mindset.

One of the most important things I’ve learned is that just setting a goal and then focusing on
that goal is fairly useless. Why? Because you exist in two states with a goal:
1) You’re either not there yet, hence frustrated that you’re not getting “there” fast enough.
2) You reach your goal (though 92% of people won’t). What now?

The solution to this? Set up a system to reach your goals. Something you do regularly (ideally
each day). If you’re on track THAT DAY, you feel satisfaction. If you fall off track, you can get
right back on the next day. And WHEN you reach your goal: you’ll have already built the habits
to make sure you don’t lose progress. Or you can adapt your system to meet an even bigger and
better goal.

Just remind yourself, every day, “Systems, not goals. The system is working today.”

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 5-Year Plan & Perspective
Goal: Current Strength Current Weakness Breakdown

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 Yearly Goal Worksheet
This Year, I Will (think big!)…
This is your major focus this year. The one thing you ARE going to do.
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: ________________________________________
______________________________________________________

Family Goals:
1. ____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________

Personal -or- Health Goals:

1. ____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________

Financial Goals:
1. ____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________

Misc. Goals:
1. ____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________

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 Quarterly Breakdown
Yearly Goal: _________________________________

Quarter 1: ______________________________________________
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Quarter 2:______________________________________________
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Quarter 3: ______________________________________________
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Quarter 4: ______________________________________________
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 Quarterly Planner
Month 1:
1.___________________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________________
5.___________________________________________________________

Month 2:
1.___________________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________________
5.___________________________________________________________

Month 3:
1.___________________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________________
5.___________________________________________________________

Family: Personal/Health Financial Misc.

______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
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 Monthly Planner
4. Action Items: Family:
___________________
1. _______________________
___________________
_________________________ ___________________
_________________________ ___________________
___________________
___________________
2. _______________________ ___________________

_________________________
_________________________ Personal/Health:
___________________
___________________
3. _______________________ ___________________
_________________________ ___________________
___________________
_________________________ ___________________
___________________

4. _______________________
_________________________ Financial:
___________________
_________________________ ___________________
___________________
___________________
Secondary Items (to do if you have time): ___________________
___________________
1.________________________ ___________________
_________________________
2.________________________
Misc.:
_________________________
___________________
3.________________________
___________________
_________________________ ___________________
4.________________________ ___________________
_________________________ ___________________
___________________

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 Weekly Planner
3. Action Items: Family:
1. _________________________ ___________________
___________________
__________________________ ___________________
__________________________ ___________________
___________________
___________________
2. ________________________ ___________________
__________________________
__________________________ Personal/Health:
___________________
3. ________________________ ___________________
___________________
__________________________
___________________
__________________________ ___________________
___________________
___________________

Secondary Items (to do if you have time):

•
Financial:
___________________
• ___________________
___________________
•
___________________
•
___________________
• ___________________
• ___________________

Third Priority Items (to do if you have time): Misc.:

• ___________________
• ___________________
• ___________________
• ___________________
___________________
•
___________________

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 Daily Planner
:00
6am
:30
Today’s BIG Three

7am
:00 ________________________
:30 ________________________
:00 ________________________
8am
:30 ________________________
:00 ________________________
9am
:30 ________________________
:00
10am
:30

:00 Don’t Forget!

11am
:30
________________________
:00
12pm ________________________
:30
________________________
:00
1pm ________________________
:30
________________________
:00
2pm ________________________
:30

:00
3pm
:30
Achievements & Gratitude
:00
4pm
:30 ________________________
:00 ________________________
5pm
:30 ________________________
:00 ________________________
6pm
:30 ________________________
:00
________________________
7pm
:30

:00 Random:
8pm
:30
________________________
:00
9pm ________________________
:30
________________________
10pm
:00
________________________
:30
________________________

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 Seasonal Brainstorming
January: July:

February: August:

March: September:

April: October:

May: November:

June: December:

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 Category Brainstorming
Blog Category: Blog Category: Blog Category: Blog Category:

Post Ideas: Post Ideas: Post Ideas: Post Ideas:

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 Category Brainstorming
SEO: Idea: Link to:

Supplies Needed:
Category:

Tags: Complete Date & Promote Where:

Post Date

SEO: Idea: Link to:

Supplies Needed:
Category:

Tags: Complete Date & Promote Where:

Post Date

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 Guest Posts Pitches
Website Pitched
Post Idea/Outline Response:
Pitching To: When

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 Expenses & Income
Expense Tracker:
Date Payee Description Amount Category

Income Tracker:
Date Source of Income Description Amount

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 Ad Tracker
Campaign: Campaign:

Run Time: Run Time:

Amount Amount
Spent: Spent:

Goal: Goal:

Audience: Audience:

Reach: Reach:

Leads Leads
Generated: Generated:

Cost/Lead Cost/Lead

Successful: □ Unsuccessful: □ Successful: □ Unsuccessful: □

Campaign: Campaign:

Run Time: Run Time:

Amount Amount
Spent: Spent:

Goal: Goal:

Audience: Audience:

Reach: Reach:

Leads Leads
Generated: Generated:

Cost/Lead Cost/Lead

Successful: □ Unsuccessful: □ Successful: □ Unsuccessful: □

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 January

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 February

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 March
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 July
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 December
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 Year In Review
Last Year This Year Difference +/- Top Posts:
Sessions:
Users:

Page Views:

Pages/Session:

Session
Duration:

Bounce Rate:

Top Categories:
Facebook
Followers:

Instagram
Followers:

Twitter
Followers: Analysis of Year:

Pinterest
Followers:

E-mail
Subscribers:

Other:

Other:

Other:

Income:

Ad income:

Affiliate income:

Sponsored:

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Expenses:

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