Why You Should Content Batching as a Creator

Many of us are bloggers, content creators, YouTubers or in short Creator. We have been creating the content in order to stay relevant and work with the changing trends. However creating daily content without taking break can lead to the burn out.

So how do you get to avoid this creator burnout and how can you handle this in order to stay in the game?

Answer: Content Batching

What is Content Batching?

When it comes to creating content for the future or for scheduling, we make use of the content batching approach. You create small piece of content or complete content in advance for the future consumption.

This process of creating content in advance and reusing it for various means is what we call as - content batching.

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You can batch your content based on the day or the week. Some of the time you may have to do the content a lot in advance or also learn to break existing content into the small parts. That always helps out recreating different content output out of the content batches.

How do you perform content batching? What are the methods?

There are many methods to make out the content batch. You can create long content first and then break it down into one small content to add depending on the platform. like say Instagram requires the small content. And the YouTube gets the whole full content. That's one method. You can use the Trello to do that for proper process or mindmap like approach.

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Another method is when you connect small pieces into one big long form content. You can perform the content batch 2nd method to clear up the same old quick posting routine. By posting longer content you can also have the longer watch time.

What method works for you depends on how you choose to create content and break it into pieces or connect it in the long run.

How does content batching helps creators?

How does the batching helps the creators or bloggers or the writers in general? By doing the content batching you get to work on lot of content in advance. You get to separate the content in short as you need later. This helps you save time and also good for the planning content long term.

Creators often run out of the ideas and they make short content which could later become part of the long form content and vice versa. You may notice that when you get to adjust the content and get to present it differently. It saves you time and also it can be easily monetize with time.

Conclusion

I have been writing content in advance and also learning to batch content on various platforms. It helps to batch content and also schedule the content along the way. Many creators, bloggers and the writers are doing it to save their time and also get to monetize helps them.

Do you content batching and scheduling?