{"id":6824,"date":"2010-08-04T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2010-08-04T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:29:28","slug":"13-fun-easy-ways-to-find-content-for-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/13-fun-easy-ways-to-find-content-for-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"13 fun, easy ways to find content for your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Figure<\/a>The next time you’re looking for a topic for\u00a0your blog, ask yourself these three questions,\u00a0suggested by small business marketing coach Sydni Craig-Hart in 5 Simple Steps to Generate Relevant Content for Your Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

1. What’s keeping your clients up at night?
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\n<\/strong>2. What’s the biggest challenge or problem they’re facing right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>3. What information and resources do you have to share to make their lives easier?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s what I love about those questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For each one, you can probably come up with more than one answer.\u00a0Three answers equals three blog separate blog posts. Eight answers? Eight posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are four more questions I’d like you to consider when trying to find content:<\/p>\n

4. What question have I received from someone recently in my email?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pay attention to ALL questions in your email.\u00a0When you answer, cut and paste it\u00a0into a new blog entry, and then elaborate and, if appropriate, link to resources.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

5. What’s the most frequent question beginners in my niche are asking?\u00a0If I’m a speaker, I’d ask myself, what’s the\u00a0Number One question\u00a0that beginners in my\u00a0audiences are asking?\u00a0
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\nKeep a running tally of all these questions, and use them when you need blog content. Never assume that just because\u00a0you know the answer, it isn’t interesting to others who follow you.<\/p>\n

6. What’s the one issue I’m struggling with right now and searching for the answer?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When I can’t find the answer to a question, I go to LinkedIn and ask.\u00a0Sometimes, only one or two people respond. But often, I receive several great answers that\u00a0can be woven into a blog post.\u00a0I’m suddenly smarter, and so are my readers.\u00a0 I’m careful to explain within the LinkedIn question that I want to blog about the issue.<\/p>\n

7. What’s the “hot new thing” or controversial topic\u00a0in my industry that everybody wants to know about? <\/strong>For example, people in my audience, mostly self-promoters, want\u00a0to know what they need to do to get a great return on their investment of time with social media.\u00a0They might know how to use Facebook. But they want to know how to use Facebook to make money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Patsi Krakoff, who was my guest expert on the teleseminar Time-saving Tips for Smart Business Blogging<\/a>, partnered with me to create a list of\u00a0101 ways to find content for your blog, a handout we offered to teleseminar participants.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sneek peek at six\u00a0more ideas on that handout:<\/p>\n

8. Invite your followers to ask you questions.<\/strong> Answer\u00a0them at your blog.\u00a0Become “The Answer Man” or “The Answer Woman.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

9. Find\u00a0inspiration in photos.<\/strong> Browse through photos on a site like iStockPhoto.com<\/a>. Look for\u00a0a cute animal photo, or a funny image, or\u00a0a photo that makes you think,\u00a0and write a post around it.<\/p>\n

10. Industry definitions.<\/strong> Create a list of industry definitions, particularly those that confuse people.<\/p>\n

11. Visit Craigslist.<\/strong> You might find interesting workshops, press releases or other material worth a comment in the small business, community or events categories for the cities nearest you.\u00a0(See How to Use Craigslist as a Global Publicity Tool<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

12. Don’t do it all yourself.<\/strong> Recruit\u00a0a guest blogger on BloggerLinkup.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

13. Show readers both sides of an issue.<\/strong> Write about the advantages\/disadvantages of something.<\/p>\n

How about adding to the list? How do you find content for your blog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next time you’re looking for a topic for\u00a0your blog, ask yourself these three questions,\u00a0suggested by small business marketing coach Sydni Craig-Hart in 5 Simple Steps to Generate Relevant Content for Your Blog: 1. What’s keeping your clients up at night? \u00a0 2. What’s the biggest challenge or problem they’re facing right now? \u00a03. What\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2,634],"class_list":{"0":"post-6824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-craigslist","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}