Some people stress over creating content for their websites. And to be honest I was one of those people.

I constantly put off writing because I saw it as a job that needed a lot of time to do. I made excuses that the “atsmosphere” wasn’t right and I hadn’t worked myself up enough to write. Crap excuses I know but basically I would do anything other than knuckle down and write the damn article.

I really didn’t like writing much at all, coupled with actually coming up with ideas to write about, I found it a problem… but you can probably tell that when you look at the last post I made… 4 months ago!

Anyway, after following Ed Dale for some time now, I’m finally Going Pro… and doing it the right way.

Now this just means going at content creation in the same way the “professionals” do it… processes and systems to make the job easier and faster.

So, I’m a big iPhone fan… the nifty little device is hardly out of my hand all day, checking email, surfing the net, catching up with what’s going on in Reeder and posting to Twitter, you name… I can do it.

As Ed teaches in the Challenge – Market Leadership has never been so easy.

But now with my iPhone, I have found and dveloped my own process to be more productive across all of my niche wesbites as well as here at RichardPargeter.com.

And I do it like this -

First off, I was reading a blog post the other day by Lynn Terry on the secret to writing really great content. She was saying how she uses the “DRAFT” feature in WordPress to document her ideas for posts… so that when she logs in she has a list right in front of her of things she can be getting along with instead of staring at the computer screen for hours thinking…”What shall I do” (not the Going Pro way!)

Anyway this got me thinking, because of my love for the iPhone this was something I was doing in a notes app… making lists of ideas… the problem being I wasn’t actually using these lists.

So I figured I’d do a search on the app store for a WordPress app and bingo there was one. Basically you can post and add to all your blogs from the one app… excellent.

So now when I get an idea I open up my app, wherever I am, whatever I’m doing… I could be watching TV and something springs to mind I make a quick note of it in the WordPress app and there I have it. Once I save it as a draft I know the next time I log in to my site from my PC I’ll have a list of things to do posts to make, there in front of me.

Here’s how to set up the App:

1. Open the app and you’ll see this screen…

Tap the “+” icon to add a blog

2. Select “Add self-hosted WordPress blog”

3. Fill in the details and tap “Save”

4. You’ll now see your blog in the “Blogs” screen, tap on it

5. Tap “Posts” at the bottom… if you already have posts you’ll see a list here

6. To add an new draft idea… tap the icon in the top right hand corner of the screen

7. Add your post idea in the title and any additional notes in the “Tap here to begin writing”

8. DON’T tap “Publish” as your post will go live.. Instead tap the “gear” icon at the bottom

9. Tap “Status” – at the moment it will say Published and you’ll see the following…

Scroll down to “Draft” and tap “Done”

11. Tap “Save” and your draft idea will be uploaded to your site, ready for the next time you log in.

Pretty nifty eh? I was going to run through the whole process I go through from start to finish in creating content but I’ll leave the next part for another post.. [Grabs iPhone]

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