Stuck for blog article ideas? Ideally, you want to post to your blog at least once per week (2-3 is better if you are in a list building stage). Blog posts can be in the form of short posts, articles, videos, etc. But, what do you write about?
First, I recommend using a blog planning calendar. You can actually plan out the topics you will write about far in advance. In January I sit down with my clients to plan their writing topics for the entire year. Depending on what you’re promoting and what’s going on with your business, if you have a marketing plan set up, this should be pretty easy to do. I recommend you pick one topic for every single month and it will give you the format to build your content around.
Posting to your blog doesn’t mean that you need to spend hours and hours writing content. Blog posts can be as simple as two or three paragraphs. If you have a calendar to look at and you have a plan, then you know what you’re supposed to do each week and that makes it so much easier to write the content.
Here are 10 easy topic ideas to get you started:
- Read a book or story and write a review
- Brainstorm posts on the phone or with others
- Keep ideas written down in one place as you think of them
- Comment on other’s posts to develop ideas
- Describe a practice that makes you successful
- Put a call out to your social networks with a question, and blog the results
- Make thoughtful observations about good/bad practices
- Grab interesting/funny (related) content from others and comment on it
- Use multi-media formats whenever possible – photo, video, audio, text
- Hire someone to write your articles if necessary (check out HireMyMom.com to find a professional mom, who can help you).