If you've made a commitment to blog regularly- in order to strengthen your personal brand, attract more clients, or establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry, perhaps- but you're having trouble coming up with things to write about, we have some quick and easy ideas to help you generate blog post topics.
- Email friends, family, and current clients and ask them their top questions about your industry
- Read a leading industry resource. If you agree with a point, write a post about it. If you disagree, write a post about it
- Search a hashtag related to your industry on Twitter and see what questions people are asking
- Any time someone emails you a question, turn your email response into a blog post
- Search Quora for topics related to your work; write responses to these discussions or questions
- Set up Google Alerts for keywords related to your work; use the results you get to guide your blog's editorial calendar
- Use Google's Keyword Planner to find related keywords for your industry; write a post addressing the topics you find
- Brainstorm a list of upcoming holidays and tie them back to your business- for example, May Designs might write a post about May Day (because of their name) or Earth Day (because of their environmentally-friendly product
- Play off upcoming pop culture events or entertainment events- like the premiere of 24, the finale of Scandal, or the Superbowl)
- Look through your old posts and see if there are any points that you missed or could expand on. Consider writing a Part II
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