Over the weekend I downloaded Lynette Chandler's brand new 2013 Free Blogging Calendar from Blog Energizer.

If you need Blog Help, this is one resource you'll want to download right away. I've been using her blog planner downloads for years myself, but this year it's even better than ever.

The new 2013 blogging calendar includes both November and December 2012, so you can get started immediately as soon as you download it.

Now is a GREAT time to start getting organized for the New Year. It can be challenging coming up with blog topics and content ideas consistently, and figuring out a workable publishing schedule. Lynette's Free Blogging Calendar is the perfect solution though, allowing you to easily map out your ongoing content strategy...

The calendar is full of fun observances and holidays which will give you tons of great ideas for month-long themes, series or topical blog posts.

This month (November) is American Diabetes Month and this Wednesday (November 15th) is "Clean Your Fridge Day" - both of which give me ideas for content on my low carb blog. "International Men's Day" is observed on November 19th, which is a great segway into the top holiday gifts for men this season - just for example.

In addition to all the great content ideas, this free blogging calendar is set up as a sort of checklist to improve your productivity and marketing. Each week you'll have space to plan out your blog posts, guest posts, emails, offers/p.s. - and there is also a place to check off each of your social media updates for those content pieces.

She also has a color-coded "efficiency marker" built in where you can keep track of what you're working on most: tasks that make money, tasks that don't, tasks that are set up for future revenue, etc. Working in the orange and yellow zones will improve your profit potential quicker, giving you an easy way to monitor your efficiency.

This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, which should spark some great content around the web! Don't miss out on all of these EASY blog content ideas. Go ahead and download the 2013 Blogging Calendar today and get started.

Topical themes can be great for cross blog conversations, memes, infographics, engaging social media discussion-starters, and so much more. There are lots of ways you can get creative with this free blog planner.

You'll be much more productive with a blog planner and publishing schedule. And more productive equals more profitable. This one free download will have you struggling MUCH less with content ideas and scheduling, and free you up to experience more FUN and more PROFIT with your blog...

Happy Blogging!

Best,

I was just checking out Book Cover Genius, which is a whole slew of templates & tutorials for both print and Kindle book cover design.

It was just released TODAY, and it's less than $10. Yes, seriously.

Let me just say, I don't have a designer's bone in my body. I created the book cover you see to the left in about 20 minutes (which included at least ten minutes of me just staring blankly at the screen, lol).

Really, I was just playing around with the book cover templates to see how they worked. My example here doesn't do the templates any justice at all...

You can check out some real work here.

For less than ten bucks you not only get 20 book cover templates you can easily edit in Photoshop or Gimp, you also get access to a software program (with detailed video instruction) on how to create your own Kindle or book cover using public domain images - or image attribution. There's also thousands of royalty-free images, Gimp Video Training and tons more included. Click Here To See

The price is currently only $9.90, which I haven't quite figured out yet considering how much a single book cover design is worth - not to mention the hours and hours of training included in the package. It truly is a steal.

If you're publishing books, or plan to, or want to get into book cover design even, check out Book Cover Genius today - because this is the best deal I've ever seen!

And yes, these templates and tutorials can easily be used for print books, ebooks, Kindle books - you name it.

Best,

p.s. The (terrible) cover design example above is for my Domain Name Guide. You can click that link to see an even worse example (lol). Here's the kind of quality you can expect at Book Cover Genius, though: