Follow the Steps

  1. State Your Objectives
  2. Choose Your Subject (Your Niche)
  3. Define Your Target Market
  4. Select Your Keywords
  5. Develop Your Brand (and, Importantly, Your Domain)
  6. Analyze Your Competition
  7. Identify Your Partners
  8. Pick Your Media
  9. Design Your Information Architecture
  10. Establish Your Style
  11. Arrange Your Content Schedule
  12. Direct Your Workflow
  13. Manage Your Documents
  14. Measure Your Results

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Measure Your Results

If you've built a solid plan for writing and creating web content, you will have started with some concrete objectives . Remember them? After all the work you've done, from choosing your subject to planning your document management , we're going back to the...

Manage Your Documents

By now, your content schedule and workflow are bringing you ever closer to your objectives . You and your other resources—if you've got them—know what needs doing and when. Everything is streamlined and automated, so all you need do is sit back...

Direct Your Workflow

So, you've set up your content schedule . Now you have deadlines looming. Meet them—and beat them—with an efficient workflow. What's a Workflow? "Workflow" sounds intimidating. And, to be honest, it's a management field fraught with jargon...

Arrange Your Content Schedule

With a voice in your head and a completed style guide in your hand, you're probably raring to start writin' up some content. Whoa, there. Not so fast. Good web writing doesn't just happen . It needs to be organized —especially if you're coordinating...

Establish Your Style

When creating content for your site, you'll need to think about visual elements like your font, layout and color schemes. But a visually appealing site will never hold visitors unless it's as easy to read as it is to look at . That's why establishing a consistent...

Design Your Information Architecture

Type "information architecture" into a search engine and you're likely to come up with some mind-bendingly abstract definitions. These would include "the art and science of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that...

Pick Your Media

The term "media" can be a little confusing—but this isn't about tabloid headlines and hairsprayed news anchors. Here, media simply means the different ways to communicate information on the internet. Video, sound, graphics and text are all...

Identify Your Partners

So you've done some good groundwork: the nitty gritty of stating your objectives , choosing your niche and defining your target market . You've also positioned yourself by developing your brand and rigorously reviewing the competition . Now you need to make...

Analyze Your Competition

If there's a market for your offering, or interest in your subject matter, chances are there's also competition. (But don't get discouraged. A little healthy competition never hurts. And if there's no competition, there's likely a small market.) Once you establish...

Develop Your Brand (and, Importantly, Your Domain)

Your brand is your identity. It comprises such elements as your name, logo, color scheme, imagery, personality, voice and even sound. (Think, for example, of the Intel chime.) The stronger your brand, the less work it takes to sell your products and services...

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