One Month Ahead Podcast: Recent Episodes
Stevie Schafer
The One Month Ahead Podcast is designed to help creative business women and non-binary business people create their content one month in advance. Here you'll find tips and techniques for learning to stay well ahead of the content creation curve to stop you from feeling totally overwhelmed.
In this episode, we'll explore some content marketing goals and how to achieve them.
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How do you become a content manager? While there are many many paths, in this episode, Stevie shares how they became a content manager - from background to soul searching right through to finally getting started. It's a bit of a messy journey, but there are key points that you'll find useful: The importance of networks Why you need to learn quickly Finding your niche Experimenting
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How do you create an efficient repurposing workflow? In this episode, Stevie introduces you to the Repurposing Pyramid which Stevie thinks is a great way to construct an efficient repurposing workflow. To find out how this works, tune in!
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Are you trying to decide whether to use Dropbox or Google Drive for your content management? What about a combo of both? Tune in to hear Stevie's thoughts on what the features and benefits of each platform are and when you might need to use each.
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When it comes down to creating content, how do you make sure you create content consistently and efficiently? Here Stevie's 4 principles of efficient content creation to get you on the right track.
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How do you get your content into the hands of your audience? That's the topic of today's episode. Stevie will walk you through the main content delivery tools she's using as well as suggesting other tools that are similar. If you're looking for inspiration for delivering your content better, this episode is for you.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Wordpress.org
Wordpress.com
Squarespace
Wix
Hootsuite
Buffer
MailChimp
ConvertKit
ActiveCampaign
Omny
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What tools do you use to create content? Content creation is varied whether you're creating written, audio, graphic and or video content. Because Stevie does a mixture of all of these, either for herself or clients, she's going to walk you through the tools she uses to create her content.
You'll get a great idea of her content creation suite, why she's chosen particular apps and how she uses them. You will get inspiration for your own suite of content creation tools.
Links/apps mentioned in the episode
Google Docs
Evernote
Dropbox
Canva
Gimp
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
PicMonkey
Screenflow (Mac)
Camtasia (Windows)
Audacity
Garage Band (Mac)
Adobe Auditions
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Finding a suite of tools to suit your content management needs is a lot of trial and error. So, on today's episode, Stevie is walking you through the tools that she uses to organise her own content so you might get some ideas and direction on what you can do.
This is part 1 in a three-part series on content management, creation and distribution tools!
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This is part two of Stevie's two-part series on writing newsletters. In this episode, Stevie covers 3 common mistakes she sees people making with their newsletters and provides really simple fixes for them.
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On this episode, Stevie walks you through her approach to planning out a newsletter. You'll get questions about how you want your audience to feel, recurring sections, and tips on creating a stellar subject line.
Resources:
http://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer
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There are different ways to approach writing a blog post, but it's not all that complicated. In this episode, Stevie breaks down her steps for writing a blog post, so you can go forth and write blog posts confidently.
Links mentioned:
coschedule.com/headline-analyzer
https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
https://writeclearlyblog.com/2016/01/27/does-the-f-shaped-pattern-for-reading-web-content-still-apply/
https://app.grammarly.com/
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In this episode, Stevie explores in more detail the idea that content is made of starstuff, in particular, our core content is like the core of a star that fuels our online visibility. Listen in to find out more.
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On this episode of the One Month Ahead Podcast, Stevie discusses the steps you can take to get ahead when you’re already so far behind. This episode takes a strategic approach to the problem of creating all of the content. Find out how in this episode.
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On this episode of the One Month Ahead Podcast, Stevie delves into the world of making decisions about apps. We can all get really easily distracted by an app that seems to solve ALL of our content woes. But how do we know if it’s actually going to be good for us? Or if it’s just going to make our lives harder? Find out in this episode.
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In this episode, Stevie talks through the one element of her 5 step system to getting content done that has helped her the most and why it might help you too. It's simple and it takes very little time to implement.
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Let's be honest - sometimes when you should be doing your content you just can't be bothered. Even though you know you should do it now, you blow it off to go do something else - whether it's productive or not. But, is it worth waiting to feel inspired? And what are some ways you can get your content done, even when you have a serious case of the CBFs.
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In this episode, Stevie shares with you five simple ways to repurpose your content without being repetitive. She gives you the techniques and helps you to find a repurposing workflow that saves you time.
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In this episode, Stevie walks you through her 5 Step System for creating content well ahead of time. No more surprises. No more last minute rush. This will have you feeling as organised AF.
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In this episode of the One Month Ahead podcast, Stevie discusses how to avoid that overwhelm of creating lots of pieces of content by focusing your efforts on one core piece of content.
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Welcome to the first episode of the One Month Ahead Podcast. In this episode, Stevie walks you through the dreaded Night Before Motivation - you know the rush of energy you get just before something is due - and how to overcome it.
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