MBA2490 How to Make Time For Content Creation in Your Business

0:09Heyo, welcome to the$100 MBA show, no fluff, just the good stuff with our practical business lessons. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zinhome. And in today's lesson, you will learn how to make time for content creation in your business. So many people say to me, Omar, I know the power of content marketing. I want to create videos. I want to create a podcast. I want to start blogging again. But where am I going to get the time? How do I make time to create content for my business? Well, today's episode is for you. First of all, we all know that content creation is crucial for building our brand, whatever business we're in.

0:46It's an important practice so that we can engage with our audience and through that engagement, drive growth. But finding time to create it can be tough, especially when you're juggling a million other things in managing your business. Trust me, I know I've run this podcast for nearly 10 years, publishing over 2 ,400 episodes while running two seven-figure businesses. So I'm a little bit of an authority on this topic. so I'm happy to help you out to make sure you have time to create the content you need to grow your business. Let's get into it. Let's get down to business. First things first, you need to recognize that this is important, that you need to prioritize creating content for your brand.

1:25Some people say they want to create content, but they don't actually believe they need to. This means treating content creation as a core part of your business strategy, Not just an afterthought, not just some sort of tactic or little hustle you're doing on the side to push the ball forward. At Webinar Ninja, my software company that I built over 10 years and recently sold, we realized that consistent content was a key part of our growth. Listen, when you're out of sight in the market's eye, you're out of mind. And because we knew this was so important, we made it a priority by dedicating specific times each week solely for creating content.

2:02These times in our calendar were non-negotiable. They're like a meeting. So make sure you're prioritizing this if it's important. If it is important, make sure it's on the calendar. If it's not on your calendar, it doesn't actually happen, right? It doesn't really make any sense in your mind if you just tell yourself, hey, I need to create more content, and then you don't even actually put it in your calendar, meaning it's never going to happen. So whatever you want to create, even if you want to just start small with writing one blog post a week or a newsletter once a week, then put it in the calendar.

2:32Block book three hours to outline and script your blog post. This is called time blocking, and it's a very, very productive productivity hack. So for example, every Tuesday and every Thursday from nine to 11, I'm going to work on this task, this content creation task. This is what I do for the podcast, by the way. I have different time blocks for planning the content, for scripting the content or outlining it, and then different time blocks for me recording the content. So step one is prioritizing it and proving it's a priority by putting it in your calendar and making the time for it. Okay, listen, you have to make time for it.

3:13Otherwise, you're going to fill this time with other busy work in your business. Understand, if you don't make time for it, it's just never going to happen and it's never going to give you the positive impact you need. Listen, if you believe content is going to grow your business to get you more revenue, then you can make more money to hire more people so that you can be able to offload those tasks or keeping you busy. So get off the hamster wheel by investing in content. So that's step one, making a priority. Step two, don't do this alone. As much as possible, get the other parts of content creation off your plate.

3:48So what I like to do is I like to just focus on the content creation. So that's my secret sauce. That's my magic. This is what I love to do. This is what I feel like I can add the most value in is the actual content, the actual creation of the ideas and then the implementation, which in this case for this podcast is recording the podcast. If I'm creating a video, then shooting the actual video, you get the point, the content creation and the shooting of the video. Now, that's not all you have to do to create content. You need to edit the content. You need to make sure if it's audio that the sound is mastered and it sounds great.

4:24You need to render this content and put it in a suitable file, MP3 or MP4 if it's a video or whatever it might be. You need to upload this content somewhere. So if you have a YouTube channel, you need to upload it to YouTube. If you have a blog post, it needs to actually get put into your blog. It needs to be scheduled or published. It needs to be marketed and so on and so forth. There's all these other admin tasks and non-admin tasks like editing. This is a craft. If you could just focus on the creation and let somebody or some people take care of the rest, that is going to make it possible. This is going to make it so much easier for you because you can only just focus on one thing and everything else gets taken care of by the rest of the team.

5:05Now, you might be saying, where do I find these people? Well, you can find an agency to do all this work for you and even schedule these posts and publish them on your social media if you want to promote them. I'm talking about any content. So let's say you publish a blog post, creating a tweet or post on X and promoting that piece of content. So first thing you want to do is look at your current team. Is there anybody on your team right now that can actually help you with some of these tasks? So the best way to do is to list all the tasks you have to get done in order for this content to get produced and published and be out in the world.

5:38Write it all down, circle the stuff that you're going to do, which is the content creation part. And then you can go ahead and outsource or ask somebody on your team to do some of the thing. Who can do this? Who can be trained to do this? Maybe they don't know how to do it now, but you can train them, buy them a course on Udemy or something like that and get them to learn. We've done this on our team several times. We've hired freelancers when we didn't have somebody on our team to work on something as just a project to see if they're able to do it, whether it's a video editor or post-production person, or you can hire an agency that focuses on this.

6:09Just look up social media content agency, and you will find an agency in your area that can help you out. They don't even have to be in your area. They could be anywhere in the world. But the point here is that there's plenty of these people around. This way, you can focus on what you do best while still maintaining a steady stream of content. Next, leverage templates and tools. Through the years of publishing this podcast, creating over 2 ,400 episodes, we have created systems, templates, tools that have significantly streamlined our content and creation process. Templates provide a structure that you can follow.

6:45This reduces the time of you spending thinking about a format and letting you focus on the content itself. For example, for a blog post, you might have a standard template that includes an introduction with a nice hook that will get the reader engaged, some key points followed with some supplemental examples or stories, and maybe a nice wrap-up conclusion. For social media, you can use graphic design tools like Canva, which is free, to create visually appealing posts quickly with pre-made templates that you can customize. So use systems, templates, tools to make your life easier. Repurpose content.

7:21Now, you got to be careful with repurposing content. You don't want to be hacky about it, meaning there's some people that do this wrong and the quality suffers in the process. But as long as when you're repurposing, you don't lose quality and you keep your standards high, you should be all right. So what's an example of repurposing content? Well, say, for example, you created a one hour video or tutorial or you did a webinar for one hour. There's going to be some really great key moments inside that one hour. You can probably find 10 to 12 one minute clips you can pull out. And again, an agency could do this for you or somebody on your team and use those one-minute clips as promotional content for the actual video on your Instagram reels or for your YouTube shorts or whatever it might be.

8:08You already created the content. Now you're just repurposing it for promotion on social media. Another amazing example that I absolutely love is Arnold Schwarzenegger's podcast. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a podcast called The Pump Club. And Arnold, at the start of this podcast, in the trailer as well as the first few episodes, makes it clear that what you're listening to is not actually Arnold. It's an AI voice that was trained on Arnold's voice, and it actually sounds exactly like him. You should check it out. And basically, they feed this AI the weekly newsletter. They say, this is our weekly newsletter.

8:44We publish it every single week. But if you don't want to read the newsletter, you can listen to it on the podcast using Arnold's AI voice. He's very upfront about it. He makes it clear it's AI, but repurposes his newsletter into a podcast that sounds incredible. So repurpose your content in a way that doesn't lower the quality, but in fact enhances your work and gets it out to more people. My last tip when it comes to making more time for content is making sure you don't overwhelm yourself at the start. You want to take baby steps because in the beginning, you're not only doing the work, but you're also learning the systems, creating the templates, managing the team, figuring this out, getting comfortable.

9:26You're still new at this. So you might want to publish three blog posts a week or publish a daily video on YouTube. You want to go gangbusters. But at the start, nail the systems, nail the cadence, and nail your consistency and reduce the load. So instead of doing a daily video on YouTube, do one video a week. Nail that. Make sure you have enough time for that. Don't overwhelm yourself. Maybe you need to start with one video a month. It doesn't matter as long as you start doing it consistently, whatever you choose, once a month, once a week. And then once you know the system, you have the procedure, you have your team behind you helping you throughout the process, you've seen how you made it a priority and you start to see a return on investment.

10:11Okay, let's up the ante a little bit. Two videos a month, three videos a month, once a week, but don't overwhelm yourself at the start because it might get you to stop doing it too early on without you having consistency and a chance to get used to it. That wraps up today's episode on making time for content creation in your business. Remember, the key is to prioritize your actual need to create content for your business, to schedule it, to leverage tools, to outsource and use your team or hire some players like an agency to be able to help you out to repurpose some of the content so that way you're not, you know, overwhelming yourself.

10:49And of course, pace yourself at the star. Thanks so much for listening to the$100 MBA show. If you love this podcast, if you want to show your support, the best thing you could do is just follow the show. Click that follow button on Spotify or Apple podcast to get our next episodes automatically. That sends a signal to the algorithm to say the show's all right and allows us to get more listeners and get more reach. Thank you in advance for just clicking that follow button. Before I go, I want to leave you with this. One of the best things I learned in content creation is batching. Batching means doing the same thing all at the same time.

11:21So I don't plan and then record my podcast in the same session. I plan all my sessions in one shot. So I'm just doing planning. So I plan four or five episodes and then I outline all my episodes at one shot, four or five episodes. This is a different session. And then I then record all those episodes in one sitting. Batching allows you to get more done because you're just focused on doing one type of task. You're not content switching and you're not fatiguing your brain by going from planning to implementation. This is incredibly powerful and huge when it comes to content creation. Thanks so much for listening, and I'll check you in the next episode.

12:00I'll see you then. Take care.