5 Easy Ways to Write Content For Your Blog
August 12, 2009 | All Things WordPress, Blog Tips & Tricks 2 Comments
Have you ever found yourself stuck on what to write for your blog or someone else’s blog for that matter? That’s a challenge I face all the time and it’s the reason why I do not post more often. And it’s because I honestly do not have a plan of action on what I want to write about.
So I have come up with some tips that I think will help you and me get past the “writer’s block” and have a plan of action AND a blog post schedule that will put you on the right track to becoming a successful blogger.
- Create a topic series or a tip series and schedule the posts on a daily basis or a weekly basis. For one topic, you could interview other experts in your industry and get some really good content to post.
- Create and send out a survey to your industry and see what kind of topics of interest your audience would like to hear more about. This could be a goldmine for you! I recommend SurveyMonkey to create and distribute your survey.
- Repurpose your old newsletter articles or reports you have written in the past. They make for great blog articles!
- If you are an avid Twitter user, round up your best “tweets” and formulate blog articles from those. You would be surprised what you wrote a week ago could be your best article yet!
- Devise a simple blog posting calendar in Outlook or Google and set reminders so you can remember that you have a blog article due.
Lastly, if you do not already use WordPress for your blog (and/or website), consider switching to their platform. I am a huge advocate of the WP product and I will be offering training to those interested in learning the system from top to bottom. If this is something that interests you, email me at aletha(at)wordpresstowebsite(dot)com and I will inform you of the training dates when they become available.