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Several of the checklists below come from My Checklists book, along with decades of hands-on experience writing books, building websites, promoting products, creating marketing campaigns, coaching clients, designing publishing systems, and helping entrepreneurs turn scattered ideas into organized action.
Use these checklists to move faster, avoid mistakes, organize your thinking, and see what needs to be done next. Whether you’re working on a book, website, business, brand, marketing campaign, product launch, media page, or personal project, the right checklist can save you time, reduce confusion, and help you take action with more confidence.
And if you’d rather have help applying these ideas to your own project, that’s exactly the kind of consulting work I do. Review the checklists that apply to you, take note of what needs attention, and reach out if you want help turning your next steps into a real plan.

AI & Productivity Checklists (3)
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Use this checklist to get better answers, stronger ideas, and more useful results from AI tools. It helps you write clearer prompts, give better instructions, and guide AI toward the kind of output you actually want.
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Use this checklist to plan, write, edit, repurpose, and improve content faster with the help of AI. It helps you turn ideas into usable articles, emails, posts, videos, scripts, and marketing material.
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Use this checklist to save time, organize your work, make better decisions, and get more done with AI as your assistant. It helps you use AI for planning, research, brainstorming, writing, follow-up, and daily business tasks.
Personal Brand Authority, Joint Venture & Business Growth Checklists (5)
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Use this checklist to strengthen the way people see you, understand what you do, and trust your expertise. It helps you organize your message, content, proof, website, media presence, offers, and reputation.
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Use this checklist to strengthen the way people see you, understand what you do, and trust your expertise. It helps you organize your message, content, proof, website, media presence, offers, and reputation.
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Use this checklist to plan and promote a product launch with more structure and less chaos. It helps you think through your offer, audience, message, launch content, email sequence, sales page, timing, and follow-up.
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Use this checklist to prepare for joint ventures, partnerships, collaborations, affiliate promotions, and cross-promotional opportunities. It helps you clarify your offer, audience, partner fit, responsibilities, promotion plan, and follow-up.
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Use this checklist to identify hidden problems, leaks, mistakes, and missed opportunities that may be costing your business money. It helps you spot issues in marketing, sales, pricing, follow-up, operations, customer care, and productivity.
Book, Author & Publishing Checklists (6)
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Use this checklist when you want to write a book quickly without getting stuck in overthinking, perfectionism, or endless outlining. It helps you focus, move fast, and get your ideas into manuscript form.
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Use this checklist to walk through the major steps of preparing, publishing, and promoting your book as an independent author. It helps you stay organized from manuscript to cover, layout, upload, launch, and beyond.
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Use this checklist to organize your book idea, structure your chapters, plan your content, and move from blank page to finished manuscript. It helps you write with more clarity, direction, and momentum.
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Use this checklist to build or improve a website that supports your books, brand, expertise, and reader connection. It helps you showcase your work, promote your books, collect leads, and give people a reason to contact you.
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Depending on the topic of your book, book launch parties have occurred at open markets, wine stores, delis, niche retail stores, people’s homes, at offices, hotel conference rooms, restaurants, and more. Here's an awesome checklist to help your book launch party is an over-the-top success!
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Use this checklist to plan how you will promote your book before, during, and after publication. It helps you think through visibility, outreach, interviews, websites, email, social media, and sales opportunities.
Website, Funnel & Traffic Checklists (6)
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Use this checklist to plan, organize, build, and improve a website that actually supports your business or brand. It helps you think through pages, structure, content, navigation, credibility, calls-to-action, and usability.
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Use this checklist to turn your website into a stronger authority platform. It helps you add the proof, content, structure, trust signals, and positioning that make visitors take you more seriously.
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Use this checklist to identify ways to bring more people to your website through content, search, links, email, social media, video, publicity, and promotion. It helps you stop relying on hope and start building traffic intentionally.
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Use this checklist to create a focused landing page that guides visitors toward one clear action. It helps you improve your headline, offer, copy, visuals, form, credibility, and call-to-action.
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Use this checklist to create a free resource people actually want in exchange for joining your email list. It helps you choose a strong topic, package the content, present the offer, and connect it to your larger business goals.
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Use this checklist to map the path someone takes from first discovering you to becoming a lead, buyer, client, or customer. It helps you connect your offer, landing page, email follow-up, content, and sales process.
Domain Name Checklists (2)
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How do you register, transfer or forward domain names to a website hosting company? There’s a lot to learn about domain names that you might not be aware of. Well, look no further than the awesome checklist I’ve prepared for you! Read through the topics for new information about domain names. The checklist was designed to teach you the most important aspects for searching, registering, transferring and working with domain names.
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I’ve been registering domain names for more than 20 years and over that time, I’ve learned a few things that will assist you when registering any domain name. If you anticipate using a domain name for a long time, register for several years when you first purchase it. You can feel reassured that your domain will not expire every year because ...
eMail & Audience Building Checklists (3)
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An ASK CAMPAIGN is a laser sharp marketing strategy used to find out what your clients really want to know and how you can provide it. You, simply, allow them to ask a question about a topic you are an expert in. After you collect 20-100 questions from your clients, you then proceed to answer the top 10-20 questions at a tele-seminar call while your audience can hear your responses to the top questions you chose to answer.
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Use this checklist to grow an email list of people who want to hear from you, learn from you, and possibly buy from you. It helps you think through opt-ins, lead magnets, forms, landing pages, traffic sources, and follow-up.
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Use this checklist to plan and send email newsletters that keep your audience informed, interested, and connected. It helps you create useful content, stay consistent, promote your work, and build trust over time.
Content Creation Checklists (2)
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Use this checklist to build a repeatable system for creating articles, videos, emails, posts, downloads, and other content. It helps you move from random content creation to a more organized publishing routine.
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Use this checklist to turn one piece of content into many useful assets across your website, email list, social media, videos, and marketing channels. It helps you get more mileage from the work you already created.
Media & Publicity Checklists (4)
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Use this checklist to prepare for interviews as a guest, expert, author, speaker, coach, or business owner. It helps you organize your talking points, stories, offers, bio, links, and follow-up before you appear in front of an audience.
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Use this checklist to create a page that makes it easier for podcasters, media hosts, event organizers, and interviewers to feature you. It helps you present your bio, topics, questions, photos, books, links, and contact information in one place.
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Use this checklist to assemble the materials people need to feature, interview, promote, or partner with you. It helps you organize your bio, photos, book covers, logos, topic ideas, social links, press information, and credibility pieces.
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Use this checklist to find and pursue publicity opportunities without relying only on paid advertising. It helps you think through interviews, media outreach, local news, podcasts, articles, events, expert positioning, and follow-up.
Video & YouTube Checklists (3)
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Use this checklist to plan, create, publish, and promote videos that support your brand, business, books, products, or services. It helps you think through topics, scripts, recording, thumbnails, titles, calls-to-action, and distribution.
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Use this checklist to create short videos for platforms such as YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook, and other fast-moving content channels. It helps you deliver quick tips, hooks, lessons, stories, and calls-to-action.
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Use this checklist to set up, improve, and grow a YouTube channel that supports your message, authority, content, and business goals. It helps you organize your channel, videos, playlists, branding, descriptions, thumbnails, and promotion.
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More Checklists Included In The Book
The checklists on this page, above, are just a sample of what’s actually inside My Checklists book. I placed many of my most useful business, marketing, publishing, website, AI, media, and productivity checklists here so you can start using them right away.
But the full book includes 106 practical checklists designed to help you organize ideas, avoid mistakes, launch projects faster, improve your marketing, create better content, build authority, and run your business with more clarity.
If you like the checklists on this page, get the book and see what else you’re missing.

There's Are More Checklists Inside My Book ...
AI Usage Checklist
Advertising Checklist
Advertising Copy Checklist
Analytics & Metrics Checklist
Audience Building Checklist
Audience Monetization Checklist
Audio Recording Checklist
Become Famous Checklist
Book Money-Making Checklist
Book Publishing, Printing & Distribution Checklist
Brand Collaboration Deal Checklist
Brand Partnership Contract Negotiation Checklist
Business Startup Checklist
Business Tax Deductions Checklist
Coaching Business Checklist
Community & Membership Checklist
Computer Essential Skills Checklist
Content Creator Influencer Checklist
Creator Business Model Checklist
Creator Media Kit Checklist
Customer Care Checklist
Daily, Weekly, Monthly Marketing Checklists
Decision Making Checklist
Domain Registration Checklist
Domain Name Transfer Checklist
eBook Creation Checklist
eBook Marketing Checklist
Email Account Setup Checklist
Email Broadcast Checklist
Email Sending Checklist
Event & Trade Show Checklist
Idea Validation Checklist
My Networking Tactics Checklist
Online Community Building Checklist
Online Course Creation Checklist
Online Reputation Checklist
Operational Systems Checklist
Opt-In Web Form Creation Checklist
Outsourcing Checklist
Patreon Community Checklist
Personal Growth Checklist
Personal Health & Energy Checklist
Personal Productivity Checklist
Photography Checklist
Podcast Guest Appearance Checklist
Podcast Show Checklist
Press Room Checklist
Product Ambassador Checklist
Product Sponsorship Checklist
Public Speaking & Presentation Checklist
QR Codes Checklist
Retreat / Workshop Checklist
Selling Online Checklist
Side Hustle Skill-Building Checklist
Skool Member Community Setup Checklist
Social Media Content Repurposing Checklist
Social Media: Facebook Marketing Checklist
Social Media: Instagram Marketing Checklist
Social Media: LinkedIn Marketing Checklist
Social Media: Pinterest Traffic & Marketing Checklist
Social Media: TikTok Marketing Checklist
Social Media: X Marketing Checklist
Strategic Thinking Checklist
The Entrepreneur Success Checklist
UGC (User Generated Content) Creation Checklist
Video Content Ideas Checklist
Video Recording Checklist
Webinar Checklist
YouTube Go Live Checklist
YouTube Video Uploading Checklist
Zoom Setup & Hosting Checklist
That’s why I created My Checklists book — to give you a practical library of business-building tools you can turn to whenever you need to plan, organize, launch, promote, improve, or get unstuck. Get the book, use the checklists, and start putting more of your ideas into action.
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