Blogging: What to Post?
One question that I’m often asked by my customers is, “How do I find stuff to post to my blog?”
Seems really tough to some folks. I get that. I really do.
I have always had a love/hate relationship with writing. I’m a professional writer, so the words just flow out of my fingers, more or less, but even for me, it’s sometimes hard coming up with what to write on my own. In fact, I rarely use my own brain to come up with topics, in case you haven’t noticed.
At the end of my work day for Overcome Everything, it’s time for blogging, which I try to do Monday through Friday. Sometimes, that doesn’t happen. This week, I spent most of my life on the telephone between the re-launch of The ListBuilding Club and the “Listathon” which we did Wednesday and Thursday. Ahhhh!!! It’s so much fun, but at the end of a day like those, you’re just exhausted.
So, I don’t rely on my own brain, which is very tired by the end of one of THOSE days.
First, I go into my email. I get newsletters from Site Pro News, Media Post and several other sites about search and Internet marketing, plus Jack Humphrey’s Friday Traffic Report. I can usually find something interesting in one of those that will give me an idea for blogging. I read articles on the SEO sites and such, too, so it’s easy to bounce off one piece or another.
Or, I can go to You Tube and find a video to post, or I post a video of my own.
I can go into my member calls from Blogging4Boomers and select a bit of audio to publish.
It’s totally easy for me to find stuff to blog, and it can be easy for you, too. Learn something you didn’t know before. Catch up on the news in your niche. Make a video or find one on one of the video sites, or interview someone — an expert — and post that interview to your blog.
There are so many ways to blog, it really boggles the mind.
R.MOHANSUNDAR
January 24th, 2009 at 3:56 pm #
I found that this blog work is a neat one. The author speaks out frankly. I like his attitude.
Pat Marcello
January 24th, 2009 at 5:11 pm #
Thanks R. But…
Not a guy.
I seem to keep repeating that. LOL Maybe I need a picture of me on here.
– Pat
Katie Piatt
January 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm #
Good advice – sometimes I find myself telling people the same things over and over – that’s usually a clue that I should blog about that topic! Just because its something I know well, doesn’t mean everybody else does, so write it down and it might well help someone – and save me repeating myself!
Ginny
January 25th, 2009 at 5:28 pm #
Hi.
Great post. My father was a writer.
I wish his writing gene had been passed down to me.
However, the words don’t flow from my fingers quite as easily as yours.
Well they do, but whether or not they are grammatically correct or make any sense remains to be seen.
Ginny
Amanda
January 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm #
What I have found with my blogs is that the inspiration for really pounding out posts will come and go. Some days, I just feel like surfing the web. Other days, I’m really productive and can write article after artcile. The trick I use is to schedule my posts so that they are released at a steady pace. When I do that, I don’t feel so bad about just making note of a topic to write about in the future.
Josh
January 28th, 2009 at 6:59 pm #
Hey, thanks for this blog! It really helped me in a time of need I was so frustrated, its good to know I am not the only one!