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Run your own planning retreat for your business with these resources.

How to Have Planning Retreat for Your Business Any Time

In case you don’t know this about me yet, I *LOVE* to make plans.

I am a type-A list-maker, checker-offer, planner-loving freakazoid. 

So it makes total sense that my idea of an awesome vacation? Is a planning retreat with my mastermind buddies.  (I know. I’m a huge dork.)

That’s us at 10,000 Waves spa in Santa Fe last February, where we had just relaxed and detoxed after a day of working and planning. (Are we cute, or what??)

We were lucky enough to be able to do a planning retreat on the cheap; …

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Take stock of the year with a 2015 Blog Content Audit

Take Stock: How to Conduct a Blog Content Audit

I’ve never been much of a numbers gal.  Humanities, that’s always been my thing.

But my mentor, Tara Gentile, is fond of asking us: If you’re not measuring it, how do you know if it’s working?

Errrrr…. Um…. Yeah.  Good point.

So, to end the year on the right foot, I’m conducting a content audit.  Basically, it’s a look back at what worked (and what didn’t) with my content this year — and then a plan for what to do next year.

And since I’m going to the trouble of doing …

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Behind the Scenes: How I used My CIA System to Plan the Next Quarter of My Business Content

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like there are a lot of programs out there that tell you what you “should” do — but that don’t seem to line up with what the author of the program actually does.

(I’m especially suspicious of this when I see people who have BRAND NEW businesses giving out business advice…)

But I actually went the other way when I created The Content Intelligence Agency.  I created the system first for myself.  My editorial calendar system is what I use for my own content marketing as …

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How This One EXTRA Step Will Save You Time Blogging

It seems counterintuitive.

When I ask you to sit down intentionally and plan out your next three to six months of content ideas, you probably immediately think that it will take more time.

You already spend hours each week creating content for your blog, and it’s tough enough to find that time.  Why would you want to spend more time writing out a plan?

Brian Tracy, an international time management guru, says that spending every minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution. So even 10–12 minutes planning can save you up …

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