Blog Post Ideas:
21 Proven Ways to Create Compelling Content and Kiss Writer's Block Goodbye
Danny Iny
Jim Hopkinson
Alexis Rodrigo
Copyright 2016 Danny Iny, Jim Hopkinson, and Alexis Rodrigo.
All Rights Reserved.
The content and ideas in this book belong to the authors. Youre welcome to learn from it and apply it, but you cant share it, distribute it, or resell it without express written permission.
Limits of Liability, No Warranty, Earnings Disclaimer, and Your Success (Or Lack Thereof).
Readers should do their own due diligence and think carefully through their business strategy. The authors cannot guarantee specific outcomes and ultimately the reader is responsible for all results.
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Dedicated to the bloggers who keep pounding their keyboards and hitting publish, even when it feels like nobodys paying attention.
Blog Post Ideas Extras
Free PDF Cheat Sheet + Blogging Expert Interviews + Online Video Companion Course
Get a one-page summary of the 21 blog post ideas, access to interviews of blogging experts, and a discounted price to the companion course!
Free PDF Cheat Sheet
Always have 21 blog post ideas within easy reach with this colorful cheat sheet.
Blogging Expert Interviews
Successful bloggers reveal how they bust through writers block.
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Enrich your discovery of the blog post ideas in this book. The video-based companion course is a different experience.
- 60+ minutes of video instructions
- Entertaining and educational
- Video walk-throughs of sample posts
- Bonus interviews of bloggers whove become published authors
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Website Links and Further Reading Available Online
Since this is a book about blog posts, it refers to many blog posts.
To make your reading experience smoother, all links to websites and blog posts mentioned in the book are organized by chapter, in order of appearance, on this page:
http://www.mrse.co/blog-ideas-links
Happy reading!
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Welcome
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it - Richard Matheson
Its every bloggers nightmare.
You fire up your word processor to write your next great blog post and your mind is a blank.
You search the deepest corners of your brain but the well of inspiration has dried up.
Your blogging deadline is looming but your writing chops have disappeared.
Have you run out of things to say?
Is it time to quit your blog?
Relax, its just writers block. Every blogger goes through it. Just look at the thousands of blogs that are abandoned or neglected, without any fresh posts for six months straight or more.
But since youre reading this book, we know youll get through this. Your mind will fire up again. The well will fill again. And you will write good, even great, posts again.
We wrote this book for our fellow bloggers, content creators who know that your blogs success depends on your ability to churn out good posts and to do it again and again.
Blogging is relentless. Not only do you need to continually deliver creative content your readers will love, but you also have to deliver great content week after week, month after month. You have to be both compelling and consistent. No excuses.
If you let writers block, exhaustion, or creative ennui get to you, then your blog will fail. Your traffic will plummet. Your subscribers will forget you.
Weve been there and we know how hard it is.
Whos we?
This book is based on the work of Mirasees CEO, Danny Iny, the best-selling author of Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich. He started gaining prominence when he wrote 84 guest posts in 10 months. This feat also earned him the nickname, Freddy Krueger of blogging, because he seemed to be everywhere all at once.
Mirasees content crafter, Alexis Lexi Rodrigo, also contributed to the book. Her work has appeared on Freelance Folder, Vero, Business2Community, AWAIs B2B Writing Success, and Copyblogger, among others. For two years, she singlehandedly produced regular content for a software companys blog, YouTube channel, newsletter, and social media accounts.
Jim Hopkinson, Mirasees Course Director, also co-authors this book. He has written more than 250 posts for his blog and 75 posts for Salary.com, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, WIRED.com, The Huffington Post, Mens Health, Success Magazine, and many other sites.
Our company, Mirasee, works with small businesses and entrepreneurs like you who have a product, a service, or a message to share, and a genuine desire to help others with their unique voice. We provide in-depth training to help entrepreneurs build and scale profitable audience-based businesses.
WeDanny, Lexi, and Jimhave banded together to help you become an unstoppable blogger.
How to Use This Book
If youre reading this book before you actually need it, then you can read it straight through, from beginning to end. When you come across an idea you like, stop reading and go ahead and try it. This way, youll find out which strategies work best for you even before writers block pays you a visit.
But if youre reading this book in a moment of desperation, then read it like a cookbook. Skim through the recipes or ideasthere are 21 in alland choose the one you can whip up most easily with the ingredients you have on hand.
Weve included a speed rating to give you an idea of how quickly you can carry out each idea:
* One star means the idea takes a lot of planning, preparation, and/or time to implement.
** Two stars means the idea is easier, but still requires some time.
*** Three stars means the idea is super fast and will let you produce a new blog post in minutes.
Well point you to plenty of real-life blog posts, so you can see each idea in action. You can also find them all listed on this page:
http://www.mrse.co/blog-ideas-links
Youll also meet two fictitious bloggers throughout this book: Fiona Food Blogger and Tommy Tech Blogger. Theyll show you how the ideas can be implemented in diverse niches.
Finally, we end each idea with a Recipe for Success: the critical steps you must go through to carry out the tip.
To round out your experience of the book, weve created some Blog Post Ideas Extras for you.
Theres a free PDF Cheat Sheet, which is a colorful summary of the 21 blog post ideas in the book. Youll want to print it out and hang it in your workplace for easy reference.
There are video interviews of successful bloggers, who share their own strategies to overcome writers block.
And theres an online video companion course with over 60 minutes of entertaining instruction and walk-throughs of sample posts.
Get your access to these Blog Post Ideas Extras here:
http://mrse.co/blog-ideas-extras
If you want to be a writer, Stephen King says, you must do two things above all else: read a lot and write a lot. Reading this book is only half the work. To kiss writers block goodbye and become the successful blogger you aspire to be, you need to actually execute the tips we share, and write.
Go now, read. And then write!
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