Blog Post Ideas

To channel your creativity, map out an editorial calendar to provide structure for your writing.

Science has shown that going for a walk or a run is an effective way of getting out of your head and generating new ideas.

Change the location where you write - go to a park, a restaurant with outdoor seating, or even a writer’s retreat.

Expose yourself to new cultures and ideas at a restaurant, museum, or event, or by actually traveling to a distant land.

Interview with Vanessa Van Edwards, published author and behavioral investigator at Science of People.

Asking your audience isn’t just a shortcut to new ideas -- it shows you’re responding to their problems and actively involving them in your writing.

Talking to personal friends, online “friends,” colleagues, or even family members can help you come up with new perspectives and story ideas.

Interviews, with one person or several, are one of the best ways to inject new energy into your blog, creating a win for you, your interviewees, and your readers.

To be totally hands-off on an article, request guest post submissions and let someone else do the writing for you.

Curating a round-up post means less work for you, and appreciation (and traffic) from the people you link to.

Interview with Matthew Turner, author of The Successful Mistake and other books.

From books and magazines to movies and television, mass media provides endless sources of ideas.

Mixing ideas from mass media with learnings from your subject matter gives you a solid formula for a successful post.

Get your blog out of a rut by sourcing ideas from the latest social media and celebrity trends online.

Embed media elements such as photos, tweets, graphics, and videos into your posts to liven up your words.

Interview with Nate Cooper, Edupreneur and author of "Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and Wordpress."

Find a website, blogger, or company that you love, and do a case study analyzing what you love about them.

Highlight a product or service that frustrates you, rant about why that is, and what you would do differently.

While no one can see the future, go out on a limb and make some bold predictions for your niche.

Conduct an in-depth product review of one of your favorite things, or review previous articles from your archive to see what’s changed

Tell, teach, and involve your readers by walking them through a How-To project

Interview with Scott Ginsberg, Ripley's Believe It or Not's world record holder of wearing his nametag; author of over 30 books, 7 musical albums, 3,000 articles, and TEDx speaker.

When things go very right, show people the hard work that led to your success.

When things go very wrong, it’s an opportunity to be humble and show what you learned from the experience.

When all else fails, dig deep and connect with your readers on a personal level by sharing a powerful story from your life.

Blogging is about being receptive to the world around you and translating those ideas into words. Now you’re ready to get to work with not only enough creative inspiration for your next few posts, but also a framework to keep you going for months on end.

We provide a lot of examples in this course. Since websites tend to change URLs and webpages get lost, we organized all of the links here, which will be updated as needed!

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