Indispensable.
That’s what best-selling author Michael Hyatt called CoSchedule.
If you are attempting to stand out among all the other blogs in the Digital Age, you need CoSchedule. Their help is indispensable for six important reasons.
Co-founders Garrett Moon and Justin Walsh, a North Dakota team, head up a twelve-person staff that design tools to make blogging easier. Because they only charge for one-sixth of their tools, what they offer is affordable as well.
6 Ways CoSchedule Can Help You Succeed as a Blogger
1. Blog
The CoSchedule staff turns out a winning blog post each time they publish. Their content includes articles about social media, reader engagement, graphic enhancements, how to write better content, and how to get more subscribers, just to name a few of their valuable topics.
The best part about their content is that their tips are applicable to both newer and more seasoned bloggers. Their suggestions also apply to bloggers that self-host and who aren’t self-hosting.
The proof is in their numbers. More than 45,000 people subscribe to CoSchedule’s blog.
2. Calendar
Co-Schedule has a drop and drag calendar that works with WordPress. It enables you to blog and promote at the same time.
It also easily works with post ideas you might have on different platforms stored away in places such as Evernote.
CoSchedule is the first (and only) social media editorial calendar for WordPress that allows you to schedule your blog and social media on the same drag-and-drop calendar.
Moon and Walsh explained they developed it since they were looking for the perfect calendar.
CoSchedule’s calendar is color-coded for ease in understanding your various types of blogging activities. Their editorial calendar is free for use on a trial basis for two-weeks.
Like with their blog popularity, the proof is in the numbers. Over 10,000 people use Co-Schedule’s editorial calendar to plan their blog posts, content marketing, and social media promotion.
3. Headline Analyzer
CoSchedule’s free headline analyzer is also indispensable to bloggers.
Whatever tool I initially use to help me arrive at a headline, I invariably end up back at CoSchedule’s headline analyzer trying to get a higher score. (Today’s headline got a score of 73.)
When coming up with a score, CoSchedule’s analyzer considers power words, emotional words, common words, uncommon words, placing of key words, length of the headline, the type of headline, your readers’ emotions, and even how the headline would look in an Email.
4. Click to Tweet
The folks over at CoSchedule actually made a Click to Tweet plug-in and charged nothing for it.
Blogger and WordPress.com users have to go to the ClickToTweet.com site to embed the Tweet into their blog post. This saves self-hosted bloggers time by eliminating that step.
Self-hosted bloggers who have activated the plug-in can incorporate a Twitter message right inside their blog post without even going to the site to do it.
5. CoChat on Twitter
CoChat leads Twitter Chats Thursdays at 4:00 pm Eastern Time. I participated in one about branding; they had one recently on how to write a strong Call to Action. Use the hashtag #CoChat to participate.
6. Free Templates
You will be offered a free template when you read CoSchedule’s blog posts. They vary depending on the topic.
I downloaded one that gave me power words to use in headlines and there was another free template that enabled us to write stronger call to actions in our conclusions.
While I understand you will have to give your Email to CoSchedule in order to get the free templates, you should type in your Email; they are a great blog to follow!
[bctt tweet=”5 of the ways CoSchedule helps you blog are free.”]Testimonial
According to best-selling author Michael Hyatt,
I use CoSchedule to promote every new blog post and to re-promote my most popular posts on a regular basis. It is a one-stop solution from within WordPress. It is simple, elegant, and an indispensable part of my toolbox.
In conclusion, Sophocles once said that success is dependent on effort. You can depend on CoSchedule for your success.
Before you go sign up for Co-Schedule, please share, so other bloggers can know about the merits of CoSchedule.
Readers, have you used CoSchedule? What aspects? What is your opinion of it? Would you recommend CoShedule to other bloggers? I look forward to your views.
