Do you currently have a schedule for updating your blog? How are you coming up with new ideas and topics for blog posts? These were just a couple of questions asked on Day #11 of ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. The action item was to come up with 10 blog post ideas and this made me start wondering how other people go about updating their blogs on a regular basis.
In general, I typically come up with blog post ideas throughout the day and store them “in my head.” By the time I am ready to publish a new post (I typically update my blog at night) it can be difficult to remember the great blog post I had drafted in my head earlier in the day. I think I am going to start carrying around a small notepad to help keep a written record of these great ideas I have. Another idea would be to simply start a draft each time you have an idea if you are a near a computer. This way you would have several topics loaded up and ready to go. How do you come up with your blog post ideas? Has anyone tried the notepad idea?
Another blogging discipline idea that came up during an Agency Training Seminar with Compendium Blogware which I attended as a representative of Fusework Studios was to develope a schedule for maintaining your blog. For example: Monday’s post would be about starting the week off and things you had going on that week, Friday’s post would be about a client success story that happened during the week, etc. In theory this sounds like an idea worth trying. Especially if you are a business with several bloggers on staff.
Any other ideas out there?
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