A blogger’s job is never done. To be successful, you need to churn out compelling, useful, and unique posts week after week.
But just when a deadline is staring you in the face, it writer’s block. It threatens to take away your blogging momentum—and your blog traffic and income along with it.
What can you do when you’ve run out of things to say?
Kickstart your writing by turning to the blog post ideas in this book, compiled by three blogging aces who’ve published hundreds of posts between them on websites such as The Huffington Post, Copyblogger, WIRED, and Inc.
The 21 ideas in this book are seeds for blog posts that will grab attention, drive engagement, and make you an unstoppable blogger.
Danny Iny (@DannyIny) is the founder of Mirasee, host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best-selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich, and creator of the acclaimed Audience Business Masterclass and Course Builder’s Laboratory training programs, which have together graduated over 5,000 value-driven online entrepreneurs.
All of this grew out of humble beginnings; he started out just like most online entrepreneurs, with an idea and message to share, and no idea how to do it. He made several wrong turns – which he calls “plot twists” in the Audience Revolution – before really understanding the Audience First paradigm, and how to apply it to online business.
And when he did, it was like lighting a match to a fuse. Back in 2011, he started Firepole Marketing with less than nothing; he had no traffic, no subscribers, no relationships with any influencers in the industry, and over a quarter million dollars in personal debt, left over from his last failed startup.
In just a few short years, he’s transformed Firepole Marketing into Mirasee, grown the business to multiple-seven figures in revenue and a team of 30+ people spread all over the world (including his talented wife) on a mission to support very special global community of 50,000+ loyal and inspired entrepreneurs.
Danny has maintained a passionate commitment to learning and transparency, freely sharing lessons learned from great successes, major challenges, and even his personal life to support the online entrepreneurial community as a teacher, speaker, angel investor, and advisor to many of the top leaders in our industry, who have Danny on speed-dial when they need help with their business or strategy.
This little book certainly lives up to its promise. For each of the 21 ideas, there are lots of real-life examples from the authors plus hypothetical examples to show you how you can generate blog content. There is also a summary at the end of each section, which makes the suggestions easy to follow and implement. I have a writing tips blog and I've already used some of the suggestions for my own posts. One of my favourites is the 'mash-up' in which you take two seemingly unrelated ideas and combine them in a meaningful way (e.g. 'Five things Wimbledon can teach you about writing') and the round-up, where you compile the best information from other sources into a single blog post. I'll be returning to the tips in this book again and again. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all bloggers.
I tried several of the tips given and they did help. Right now the only thing is battle is the allocation of time between my work and that of my company's work. I've read it several times.
Originally Published on www.shanayatales.com This one was quite an odd pick for me. I typically don't gravitate towards such books, or even blog posts for that matter. The only reason being - I am almost never short of ideas for posts; I am just eternally short of time. Now, if there was a book/post/podcast on time management - that is something that I would be more likely to pick up.
Nonetheless - a friend recommended it, and I decided to give it a shot, though I was really really skeptical. But as I made progress with it - I realized one thing - this one did not have the most path-breaking ideas - but it had so many of them - that I found it hard to read this - and not write, not blog.
So while I did not use these exact ideas (though they were very good), I felt extremely motivated to tackle my backlog with a vengeance.
Which is why, I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to blog, but is either short of ideas or time. Because if you are short of ideas - this one has those in abundance, and if you are short of time - this one will fill you with enough inspiration to get off your butt and start making the time.
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Good, practical ideas for blog posts. Since my problem isn't finding ideas, but putting off writing about them, my immediate takeaway was to create an editorial calendar. This little book will be a great go-to resource when struggling with writer's block. I received a free copy of this eBook. (Thanks!)
Danny & Jim break down 21 ideas for blog ideas in an easy to understand manner and give you actionable steps on how you can implement them. I recommend this for anyone who is looking for ideas on what to write about next, whether you are a blogger, author, or just looking for something fun to journal about.