Today, getting into some content creation hacks that will help us busy mompreneurs streamline our production and save precious time.

I'll be sharing my personal journey with content creation and offering practical tips on planning ahead, mapping out processes, batching tasks, and delegating effectively.

Whether you're new to the game or looking to refine your strategy, these tips will help you work smarter, not harder, and free up more time for family and fun.

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I'm your host, Felicia, wife, mom, and

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Hey friend, welcome to another episode. Thank you so much for being here. So

today I want to get into some content creation Hicks,

or really just how you can streamline. Your content

creation production. So that you can

ultimately save time. This whole idea of

working smarter, not harder. Um, so the

first thing just going to hop right into it, the first thing is that you

want to plan ahead. I know for me,

Creating content was like the last thing in my

business that had a system to it. I would

really just a post on the fly.

And in real time and it just was not. It just,

wasn't working for me. And I really want it to be able to

outside of the podcast. Now, the podcast I planned that ahead. And

so I knew that because I could do it for the podcast, I could do

it for these other types of content that I was producing, like the social media

posts. And now I'm getting into, blogging

and Pinterest and all these other things. So the main thing though,

is to plan ahead. And so what I do with the

podcast, I look. Nail it's one to three months ahead.

And I look and I say, okay, I already know what my offers are

going to be. What else is going on? Looking at a calendar? Is this around

the holidays? Is there a special promotion? That's going to be

happening. You know, my releasing something new, my launching something new.

Do I just want to be foot promotion for something specific?

Um, and my hosting in any event, whatever it is. So just

look ahead to see what's on the calendar. And then you

can plan out your content based on that. If there's nothing like

really specific. In terms of themes related to

date, I'll just go based on, um, my

offers. And creating content that relates to the

offers that I am. Selling. Okay, so plan

ahead. However that looks for you. You know, you can do a

quarter at a time if you want to do half a year. If it's just

one week at a time. Planning ahead though, is going to

help you just get ahead of the curve And when you're able to plan ahead

You don't have to in real time be creating this

thing and you can still have a presence without actually being

present. So again, first thing, plan

out. Then the second thing you want to do is you want to map out

your actual process. For whatever it is that you do.

So for me, For the podcast. Um,

I had to map out what all of the steps were for producing the

podcast. So what I did is I wrote it down.

And then I actually created a checklist for

myself and click up. So for each podcast episode,

it's a task and click up and then each task

has this checklist attached to it. So for every

episode, I know that these are all of the steps that I need to take

in order for this. Episode to be

100% produced. and click up, I have

some. Uh, some automations and things, and it doesn't have to be that

intricate for you. Right. But just know what your process is. And so I

think I have maybe like 17 steps. And just know that this is

going to change as your process evolves, you might

actually execute the process and realize, okay, you might need to

add some things you might need to take away some things.

you might need to rearrange the order that some of these things are

happening in. So that's why it's really important to map out your process.

So what are all of the things that you need to do? just map that

out. Okay. So you can know. Each time you are

creating this process. Having that checklist is really just going

to help you not be starting from zero every time.

It's going to help you. be able to

complete the process quicker because you're going to be doing the

same thing over and over again. And you're kind of get into this rhythm.

Of execution and You know exactly what it is you need to do. There's no

second guessing. There's no figuring it out and every time you're doing the

same thing. So that's why it's important to map out your process.

Um, Then you want

to batch your tasks again, this just helps

you to maximize. Your

productivity. And so batching your task is basically

just grouping. You can either group.

Like tasks together. So for example,

um, with, again, I'm just always going to go back to the podcast as an

example. With the podcast. I can say, I'm going to

record all of the episodes. For the month on

this day, this that's what I've done before. In the past, I

recording four episodes in one day, that's considered batching, and then I'm

going to edit all of the episodes on this particular day.

And then I'm going to schedule on this particular day. Now you can batch it

in that way, like related to the task type,

but then you can also batch it related to by just the

content type. So for example,

with. My emails. So now I know with my emails.

I sent two emails per week. One of them is like a newsletter type

email. The other one is more of like a sales email.

And so I could say, okay, I'm going to,

on this particular day, I'm going to write

all of the content for the newsletter

email. And then on this day, I'm going to write all of the content for.

the cells email. So it's not based on

activity. Or task it's more so based on

the type I don't know, there's a better word for it, but I just can't

think of it right now. So it's more so based on the type, not the

actual task. Now for the email

example, if I was doing it by task, it would look different.

It would be okay. I'm going to write all of the content for the emails,

and then I'm going to schedule all of the content for the emails. So

a slightly different, you can do it however you want to do it, but

it's really just grouping like things together so that you're not losing

momentum when you switch from one type of

task or one content type from one to the

next. So batching tasks can be super helpful. And again, when you batch them, you're

able to schedule things out in advance. And so this is what I do,

you know, the podcast and I'm getting into a group where I can do this

with my emails. So a month at a time. I know

what, you know, the podcast can be all done for the entire month. All of

my emails can be done for the entire month. And now I'm getting to

the point where I can, I don't know if I'll be a month ahead with

the, uh, social media polls, but at least I'll have the

calendar. I'll know what I have to pose. And then I

probably be scheduling like a week or two at a time.

Then finally, once you've planned ahead, once you've mapped out your process, you have

your, you know, your checklist, you know what your workflow is, you've

batched tasks. Then you can delegate. You can

delegate to AI. So AI can help you

complete some of these tasks and there's so much that it can do in

terms of, um, creating content for you,

repurposing content for you. Um, so much it can

do so you can delegate to AI. You can also delegate

to automated tools. So again, when it comes to the scheduling

you're, um, you. are not actually manually.

Writing these emails or posting these things in real time. B

automation is taking care of that task for you, or you can

actually hire somebody to do X, Y, and Z tasks.

Now. one of the reasons, again, going back to mapping out your

process and having that checklist. I mentioned I have mine and

click up and part of the reason why I like having it in a tool

like click up is because I can track to see how long each

task is taking me. No, I don't, you know, always

track my time. That's something I need to get better at.

But I have tracked. Okay. How long does it take me

to. Um, produce one podcast episode

with all of the different pieces involved. And so now when I

have my time track, I'm able to look to see what's taking up the most

time and then I'll be able to. You know, if I get to. a point

where I'm at capacity. Or I just

don't want to do specific tasks anymore. And I want to lighten

my load, then I can look to see, okay, what is taking up the

most or what's taking up the bulk of my time and then I

can. Um, higher out from there.

So that's why I like using, uh, tools like click up.

Or some type of project management tool, some type of time tracker or something,

that'll help you to be able to kind of make these informed decisions later. Or

you might not be in a position or you might not need to hire now,

but it could be beneficial to you in the end. It,

even if you're not going to hire, it'll just be good for you to know

how you're spending your time. And if what you are spending your

time on. Um, if it actually makes sense for you to be doing those things,

right. So do you just need to cut certain things out? Um, because

it's not a. It doesn't have

a. ROI return on investment. The

investment. being your time. Okay. So. Again, just

some quick hacks to help you streamline your content

creation production. Number one, you definitely want to plan ahead. Number

two, you want to map out your process, have a checklist, and then also track

your time while you're doing this. Number three, you want to batch your

tasks? Either batch them by like the content type or bash them

by the task activity. And then finally

delegate where you can, you can delegate to AI artificial intelligence,

automated tools, or you can hire someone.

So I hope that this was helpful. Shoot me a message over on

Instagram and let me know, you know, how you are

streamlining, if any of these things. Really stood out to you in

which one you're going to focus on. Shoot me a message over on Instagram.

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