5 Ways to Get Blog Post Ideas
Blogging has become such an essential ingredient to your marketing mix that you really want to leverage from your business blog by producing quality content.
Whether you are a blogger for a few years, a few months or even only a few weeks, you need a strategic plan for your blog. The purpose of this article is to give you a plan based on what experts recommend, for producing quality content for your business blog.
5 ways to produce quality content
- Plan your posts by taking the list of categories that you have on your blog and make 5 sub-topics for each category. Add these topic ideas to your Editorial Calendar and time yourself while you’re writing the posts.
- Keep a running list of ideas to write about. You will receive ideas from conversations, books, other blog posts, photos etc. I use Excel and a notebook to record my ideas but there are other tools available like Evernote.com
- Schedule time for blogging, remember this is an important marketing activity. It is recommended that you post 2-3 times per week and comment on other blogs twice a week.
- If you are really short on time, write a series of posts and queue them up for future dates.
- Invite guest bloggers. These could be people in your community like your team, vendors, colleagues, customers and thought leaders in your industry. Consider posting requests on Blogger Linkup – www.bloggerlinkup.com
These are a few good ideas, but obviously there are many more. Please comment and share what is working for your blog.
If you use these ideas as part of your content marketing tactics, it will soon become part of your working routine every week. And remember that blogging is a marketing activity and marketing is part of investing in the future of your business.
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