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Developing Custom Templates & Workflows Using Template Builder

We understand the importance of efficient content creation and its impact on successful marketing. Template Builder allows you to transform your team’s strategies, techniques, and insights into customizable, reusable templates. With a custom template, one content creator can craft templates based on recurring content needs, and these can be seamlessly utilized and adapted by anyone in the team, time and time again. This not only ensures a consistent quality and style across your content but significantly reduces the time and effort spent on content creation. 

The Template Builder offers flexibility, enabling you to create templates for various content types, whether you need something beyond our extensive collection or have specific requirements for a content type we do offer. From simple single-content pieces to more complex recurring content suites, the Template Builder is designed to efficiently customize and streamline your content creation efforts.

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Here are just a few examples of the templates you can build 

  • Press Release for Company Milestones – Ensure consistent, professional communication of significant achievements, streamlining the creation process and enhancing brand image.
  • User Guide and FAQ for New Features – Simplify the creation process for support and product teams, ensuring that all necessary details are covered.
  • Event Invitation and Follow-Up Emails –  Facilitate cohesive event communication while providing all the necessary event details and optimizing engagement and feedback.
  • Newsletter – Guarantee each edition maintains a balance of content that informs, entertains, and drives reader action.
  • Podcast Episode Script Outline – Provide a structured approach for engaging content flow, improving listener retention and simplifying the episode creation process.
  • Case Study – Standardize client success presentations, enhancing credibility and simplifying the production of these powerful marketing tools.

Building a Template, Step by Step

Building a template with Anyword is a simple and streamlined process, designed to bring your vision to life with ease. Here’s how it works: 

  1. Begin by sharing your vision for the template. What’s its purpose? What key elements must it include? This initial step is crucial as it sets the direction for the template creation process.
  2. Using your outline, we’ll generate a draft list of input fields necessary for your template’s operation. This list is just a starting point. We understand that capturing your requirements accurately on the first try can be challenging, so this draft is fully customizable. If you find something missing or unnecessary, you have the freedom to make adjustments—whether it’s adding new fields or editing existing ones.
  3. With your feedback, we then proceed to create one or more template blocks based on your specifications. Each block serves a specific purpose and comes with its own prompt, making it easy for you to organize and structure your template. Just like with the input fields, these blocks are not set in stone. You have complete control to add or remove blocks and to tweak the prompts to better suit your needs.
  4. Publish your template and give it a try. Remember, you can always edit and make adjustments as needed.

This process turns what could be a daunting task into a manageable, fill-in-the-blanks activity. By breaking down template creation into these steps, we ensure the process is not only doable but tailored perfectly to meet your needs. 

To conclude, the Template Builder simplifies content creation, allowing for custom template customization. It streamlines your workflow, ensuring consistency and saving time. Dive into the Template Builder today and empower your team to focus on creativity and strategy. 

 

ProTip!

If you build a Template that uses multiple asset types across channels, the following guide on Setting Default Tones of Voice  can help you and your team assign default tone of voices across each asset type and help you create full campaigns even faster.