If you want to create “list” articles for promoting your business, product, or ebook, here’s a checklist to help guide you through the process so you don’t miss any steps.
List articles are about the easiest type of articles to write and people LOVE them!
You can literally check off each step in the process and, as long as you don’t clear your cookies, when you come back it will show you where you left off on this checklist.
List Article Creation Checklist
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74 Comments
BigJim
October 20, 2014Please let me know here in the comments on the blog if you like the idea of checklists and if you want more.
jeanne
October 20, 2014Jim I do find checklists helpful. Thank you!
BigJim
October 20, 2014Jeanne – thanks for the feedback 🙂
Jeanette Cates
October 20, 2014I LOVE checklists! Since you create excellent checklists, Jim, I would love to see you post more checklists. Thanks for sharing your expertise in this format.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Thanks Jeanette 🙂
Helen Wilkie
October 20, 2014I’m with Jeanette, Jim — I LOVE checklists. Sometimes I think I need to make a list of my lists! Yes, please do more.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Hi Helen,
Thanks for the feedback 🙂
I appreciate it!
Jim
Wil Wooten
October 20, 2014“VERY Helpful” Jim…Thanks and “yes” I’d love to see more useful checklists such as this!
BigJim
October 20, 2014Wil,
What types of checklists / topics do you want?
Jim
Herman
October 20, 2014I’m a checklist guy..they boil the info down to easy, quick, actionable steps without adding a lot of fluff…keep em coming.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Hi Herman,
Any specific requests?
Jim
Bruce Arnold
October 20, 2014Jim, I love checklists also. I’ll be using this one a lot. More please!
BigJim
October 20, 2014Excellent!
Cathy Goodwin
October 20, 2014Love checklists and the wizards – I got a bunch when I purchased one of your writing products.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Cathy,
Anything you need specific help with?
Jim
Nancy Saunders
October 20, 2014LOVE the checklists! Leave it to you to take all the essentials and drive it down to something simple. I feel less overwhelmed and less spinning my wheels with checklists.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Nancy,
Great! Any requests?
Jim
Frank
October 20, 2014Hi Jim,
Love checklist blog posts.
Can we have a Wizard for this please!
BigJim
October 20, 2014Frank,
Check this one out
http://easyonlinewizards.com/original-article-outline-wizard/
Jim
Ellie
October 20, 2014Love lists – they especially help me to focus. As always, yours are well thought out. Thanks, Jim. Feel free to share more lists! 🙂
John
October 20, 2014Hi Jim,
Great Idea!
One of the many aspects to your personality is that you think things through to the end. This effort results in a cohesive approach to getting the job done with out any missing pieces.
Jim Scott
October 20, 2014Yes, check list is very cool.
Thanks
Virginia
October 20, 2014Jim – good checklist and reminder abut the wizard. The PDF was most welcome. As others stated, the bare basics is often more useful than extra data we already “know” but don’t necessarily practice on a regular basis.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Well said!
Phillip Paris
October 20, 2014Your article tips are always top notch. That’s why I really got a ton of value from your “Turn Words Into Traffic” and all the great bonuses covering top 10 list articles and a lot more.
Albertine Schoen
October 20, 2014The checklist is very useful and specially the fact that it is printable via PDF. Thanks a lot for this help.
Please give more!!
Caryl - Miss Doggie Manners
October 20, 2014Yes, this is wonderful. I especially like one line of text per check. Thanks so much!
Ann
October 20, 2014This checklist will make writing blog posts much faster. Thanks!
carol
October 20, 2014Hi Jim, I love checklists. I need to use them more often. Another question for you…do you do any private coaching. You may not remember, but I took a kindle class with you and was writing a book about using free vacation homes to travel around the world. You said you loved the idea and I am so ready to find a coach to help me launch it! Long range plans would be a whole web-based business based on the concepts of the book.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Hi Carol,
Yes, I do. You can contact use through the help desk http://ebookfiresupport.com I chareg $500 to do 2x 45-minute consultations via GotoMeeting.
Thanks 🙂
Jim
Russ
October 20, 2014Hi Jim,
Perfect. If only everything in life could be a checklist. Well worth the time and effort from a “this customer’s satisfaction level.”
Need more,
Russ
BigJim
October 20, 2014Russ,
any specific needs?
Jim
Russ
October 21, 2014Well as long as your asking, Jim 🙂
How about one for everything you’ve ever done on the internet?
OK, ok maybe we can narrow it down to Bait / Product creation and the FB marketing that you’re showing us at TNR right now?
If that’s still too much then maybe a checklist on creating checklists for those of us that should but don’t but still like to think they do?*
*Not that I know anyone like that. << Distancing quietly from myself.
Russ
BigJim
October 21, 2014Russ,
Those are great suggestions!
I’ve been noodling how to do that for the FB one… will give it some serious thought 🙂
Thanks!
Jim
Kevin Utt
October 20, 2014Hello Jim,
The list is great. Thank you. I as well would appreciate additional help with your process and lists.
Very useful.
Ariel
October 20, 2014Love it – I can scoot the tab for this page up into my Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox, then I have not just another list, but a list on your site which reminds me this is something coming from a teacher I respect.
Like having you perched on my browser asking, “So how’s the checklist going?” (:
BigJim
October 20, 2014Ariel,
I’m watching your success! 😉
Jim
Judy Helm Wright
October 20, 2014Jim and friends, Always good to see familiar faces on the comments. Yes, I do value checklists. Especially since I use a lot of interns, it is an easy way for them to follow and make sure they don’t forget a step.
Thanks for sharing and caring with us.
Judy Helm Wright aka “Auntie Artichoke’
BigJim
October 20, 2014Judy,
Anything specific you’d want them to be able to do that needs a checklist?
Jim
Bob Moore
October 20, 2014Thanks, Jim,
I find checklists very helpful.
Bob
Barbara Morris
October 20, 2014Jim, every thing you offer is solid gold. Furthermore, you are never wrong.
BigJim
October 20, 2014Barbara,
Can I get you to tell that last part to my wife?!!
Jim
Karen Baillie
October 20, 2014Am just setting up my website! This checklist will come in handy for sure. I miss your Wed. webinars! Thanks for the helpful info. Will be visiting your Wizard website soon and hopefully will be able to sign up for the paid monthly subscription. Thanks for the email.
Karen
LaDene
October 20, 2014I like the checklist. It makes a task so much easier to tackle if all we have to do is check off what needs to be done–rather than reading through several paragraphs of dialogue.
Keep more checklists coming!
Mike
October 20, 2014Jim, This is priceless and the timing is awesome! Many thanks!!!!
Sandra Lee Aldis
October 20, 2014I find checklists useful when I can remember where I put them. Your checklist looks particularly useful. Thank-you, Lee.
Phoenix
October 20, 2014You should embed your logo and contact info into the pdf
(which I just downloaded)
Charles Moorehead
October 20, 2014Big Jim,
You hit another home run. It was a great checklist. Keep them coming.
rupa
October 20, 2014I loved the list. I will use it next time i write something 🙂
Lynne Carey
October 20, 2014Hey Jim,
Checklists are awesome… always helpful, so more of them would be great…
I should really qualify that and say “Good” Checklists are awesome, and of course yours are excellent!
Lynne
Dennis
October 20, 2014Excellent, Jim, and thanks for sharing.
Kym Kirk
October 20, 2014Nice one, Jim.
Checklists work for me.
Kym
Jan B
October 20, 2014I find the way you organise thinking around a topic so helpful, especially as my brain is not so good at that. What about ideas for organising a blog calendar?
Jan B
October 20, 2014Checklists for the other types of blog posts would be great too.
And calls to action, the various kinds.
It helps to get unstuck when the ideas don’t flow.
Thanks a lot.
Han Zomerdijk
October 20, 2014Wonderful idea.
Definitely want to see more like this.
Can we brainstorm a little?
I seem to be stuck in a rut concerning my artist daughter’s business website and how to promote it. Instant target: the 2750-plus art students that graduated from Portland university with bachelor of science in fine arts; a new type of degree that doesn’t have available resources to help them get started.
Han Zomerdijk
Marge Piatak
October 20, 2014Definitely like the checklist idea. Easy to follow and a good snapshot of what has to be done.
Kymmberly
October 20, 2014Loved the post and I know it sounds lame, but just about anything you post would be valuable to anyone trying to build a business. LOVE LOVE LOVE your easy online wizards and use them constantly
Denise Humphrey
October 20, 2014I fully agree with all the comments posted about the value of checklists. They are helpful and can guide anyone to get their act in order with a provided “path” to perfection!
Tim Floyd
October 20, 2014Well BIG Jim I think you’ve hit it out of the park once again 🙂
Deborah Miller
October 20, 2014This is a great checklist. I love that you also provide a link to a wizard to use. I do use checklists and find them very helpful.
Thanks for sharing.
Deb
Wolfgang
October 21, 2014Hello Jim,
Check list are the way to go, better than long winded text.
Wolfgang
Patricia Weber
October 21, 2014Most of us like some lists Jim. Have you tried putting lists on List.ly? It’s a wonderful platform for this kind of thing.
Patty
October 21, 2014Yes, I also appreciate the check list. A perfect compliment to the Wizards.
James Wilson
October 21, 2014Right on target Jim, this will be help full
Mike Carr
October 21, 2014Hi Jim,
I like your checklists. I tend to lose focus and they help me a lot
Mike
John Wigham
October 21, 2014Thanks Jim.
Your list is great. The concept of checklists is brilliant and definitely helps me with both clarity (organising points into the correct order) and progress (getting it done).
John
Thea Westra
October 21, 2014I like it. I also loved Helen Wilkie’s comment, regarding making a list of lists. My issue is not remembering that I bookmarked a list and then finding it after the job’s done. I have a bookmark folder in my browser which houses my most often used online tools. One single list of lists like this list, would be super. Especially with a quick index or drop down menu at top of its page. The next list I’d love see done is that, of course, plus a list of daily “must do” actions that we all know work, with regard online marketing (especially those that you know work, Jim!). 🙂 Thanks, Thea
BigJim
October 21, 2014Thanks everyone for all the comments…lots to think about… will definitely take it all onboard and keep your eyes peeled for more soon 🙂
Margy
October 21, 2014Thanks, Jim. Checklists are vital. I like the idea of a checklist for blog articles.
David
October 21, 2014Jim, like most other commenters here I like checklists and need to use them more often. The problem I find is that if it’s a process that I know it is relatively easy to list out the component parts. The problem is with an unfamiliar process – that’s when the mist comes down! “The Unknown unknown’s” I think?
BigJim
October 21, 2014David,
Great point… I think that also extends to things you need to do, but don’t do frequently enough to make them a habit.
Jim
Coach Kevin Trumpfeller
October 21, 2014Thanks for the checklist. I would suggest an additional step immediately after posting to blog – Ping Post Title and URL to Google, Ping-o-matic! and Mass Pinger.
BigJim
October 21, 2014Kevin,
Excellent suggestion… thanks!
Jim
Cynthia Charleen
October 24, 2014Yes, simple and to the point. I love checklists. They help me organize and progress with clarity. Thanks Jim!
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