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52 Instantly usable Blog post ideas to have your year covered [Works for ANY niche]!

December 23, 2019 by Jane Sheeba 15 Comments

52 Instantly usable Blog post ideas to have your year covered [Works for ANY niche]!

A New Year means a new opportunity. And for content marketers this means a lot.

If you are an online business owner or a content marketer, creating content is something you do regularly.

Planning your content ahead gives you an edge definitely. And I’m a fan of planning ahead.

When you plan your content ahead, preferably in bunch, you can batch process a lot – which is an efficient way of doing repetitive stuff and stuff that can be combined to similar categories.

Also, you can be sure you publish consistently when you plan ahead.

So how about planning ahead for a year?

There are many obstacles to publishing consistently. I discuss about some in this video here:

One of the main challenges you face when you plan content in advance is to come up with content ideas!

That’s a big, big challenge. And to help you with that, I have come up with 52 blog post idea templates that you can use to brainstorm for ideas.

Now, when I say brainstorming, I don’t mean you start from scratch.

I’ve done all the heavy lifting for you!

You just have to fill in the blanks, and voila you will have 52 content ideas that you can work on.

Assuming you publish one post a week, this should have you covered for the year.

And yes, before you ask let me tell you – these idea templates work for ANY niche, all you need to do is fill in the blanks!

Go on, plan your New Year’s content ahead and make the most out of your content marketing efforts.

Plus publish content consistently like a pro!

52 Instantly usable Blog post ideas to have your year covered [Works for ANY niche]!
  1. How to do _________ better than the others
  2. How ________________ has changed over the years
  3.  Why ________________ is so hard and what to do instead?
  4. _________________ is not as hard as you think if you follow these tips
  5. Why ____________ is better than ___________ and how to choose
  6. ____ Ways to __________
  7. How to master the art of _______________
  8. _____ Things to know if you are a _________
  9. How _______ plays a crucial role in _________
  10. Why _______ is so important for your ________________
  11. How to fix ________ before it ruins __________
  12. Advanced guide to __________________
  13. ______ Things about _________ no one told you
  14. ______ Working tips for busy ________
  15. ________ Handy tricks to make _______________ easy for you
  16. The beginners guide to _________________
  17. Simple, yet effective ways to __________________
  18. How to position yourself as a ____________________
  19. How to make _______________ easy for you
  20. _____ instant fixes for _____________________
  21. What is the importance of _____________ in _____________
  22. ___________ Tools that will make ____________________ a piece of cake!
  23. How being blind to _______ makes you a _______
  24. How to get rid of _________ in your _________
  25. Why you must learn to _______ to succeed in ______
  26. _______ Inevitable traits of _________________ you need to know about
  27. ______ Ways to use ________ to improve your __________
  28. How to eliminate ____________________ from your ________
  29. How can you benefit from ________________ 
  30. _______________ Vs ______________: A Faceoff
  31. The DIY way to ________________
  32. All you need to know about ____________!
  33. How to be patient and persistent to succeed in  _________________
  34. _____ Ways to be a pro in ___________________
  35. How to beat __________ with your ___________________
  36. _______________ Unconventional ways to do ____________________
  37. Why ___________________ is intimidating and what to do instead
  38. A complete guide to _____________: Look no further!
  39. ________ Mistakes that are killing your ________________
  40. ________ Pitfalls to watch out for to succeed in _______________
  41. How to beat _________________________ with your ______________________
  42. How to develop your _____________? A step by step guide
  43. ______________ Handy resources to help you with ____________________
  44. The pros and cons of _______________ you need to know!
  45. How to make the most out of _______________________
  46. ________________ Free tools for __________________
  47. Here’s the secret to _______________________
  48. Major ________________ mistakes that might destroy your __________________
  49. How I ___________________________
  50. _____________ Crucial factors that contribute towards _________________
  51. ______ Reasons why you should ____________________
  52. ______________ Myths associated with ___________ and here’s a reality check!

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Content Creation, Content Marketing Tagged With: content creation, content marketing, content strategy, content types, create blog content, create content consistently

How to make your guest blogging campaigns a success?

September 23, 2019 by Jane Sheeba 6 Comments

How to make your guest blogging campaigns a success?

Top bloggers earn thousands of dollars every month. While everyone goes gaga over the money that they earn, no one notices the effort that goes into it.

Successful bloggers work day and night to get more visitors and subscribers. Not only that, success needs proper strategy as well.

The perfect blend of hard work and strategy helps the bloggers gain more and more subscribers by the day who visit the blog frequently to read the latest posts on the blog.

As this gains momentum, profits begin to flow in. And if everything goes well, you can start earning top dollars as well.

The importance of guest blogging for bloggers

If you have just started your blog and want to take it to the top, you need work on several things.

Writing good blog posts only isn’t going to take you anywhere if nobody is reading it.

You need to make sure that you can reach out to more and more people so that they can actually get to know that your blog actually exists.

You need to promote your blog and your blog posts as much as possible. While there are many ways to do this, guest blogging is a technique that offers fantastic results.

It can help you reach out to a much wider audience and help build awareness. Visitors get directed to your own blog and you can get new subscribers and more leads.

It helps build trust and also gives you quality backlinks that improves your
blog’s SEO score. Overall, guest blogging has far-reaching benefits if done the right way.

How to make guest blogging work for you?

Guest blogging isn’t all about writing content for another blog. If creating a backlink is all you want, you needn’t do much.

But if you want good traffic, more subscribers, and actual profits from guest blogging, you need to strategize your guest blogging campaign.

You need a plan and quite a lot of effort and time to make guest blogging click. It may be a difficult path, but not one that you cannot tread. Here is a guide that will help you achieve success with guest blogging.

Set up your goal

Set up your goal

Before you do anything, set up your goals. Without a fixed set of goals, no strategy can survive.

If you do not know for sure what you want out of guest blogging, you will never be able to achieve the results, let alone excel at it.

So, the very first thing that you ought to do is decide what you want to achieve using guest posts. Goals vary from person to person.

Guest blogging can be effectively used to:

  • Drive targeted traffic to specific pages/posts/landing pages, etc.
  • Build brand awareness
  • Improve SEO score
  • Expand email lists
  • Ascertain oneself as an expert

One or more of these goals can be achieved via strategic guest blogging.

Choose an interesting topic to write on

Choose an interesting topic to write on

Once you have decided what your goals are, you should focus on choosing the topic of your guest post. This should be relevant to the services or products that you actually sell or the blog post that you want to link back to.

Choosing a relevant topic is essential because you want targeted traffic to your website and blog and not an influx of useless traffic just for increasing
footfall.

By driving targeted traffic to your blog or website, you significantly improve lead generation and conversion rates. The more the leads you can convert, the more will your profits be.

If you are driving traffic to your blog for more ad impressions and ad clicks, getting relevant traffic will greatly increase the chances of getting more ad clicks, and thus, more
profits.

Choose your target sites

Choose your target sites

Once you have a topic ready for your guest post, you should start your research on websites or blogs where you want to put a guest post.

Your priority should be authority blogs or websites relevant to your product or blogging niche. The website or blog should accept guest posts and allow backlinks as well.

You can do your research on Google. Make sure that the blogs/websites that you choose engage with their audience via comments, social media, etc.

This improves chances of getting visitors back to your blog/site. Also, ensure that they allow writer credits and author bios.

Get connected to the blog owner

Get connected to the blog owner

If you send in your pitch (guest post) to an unknown blog owner, your pitch may not be seen at all.

This is because blog owners receive hundreds of pitches every day, many of which are irrelevant or of poor quality.

Naturally, they tend to overlook pitches from people they do not know. So, if you want your guest post published, get to know the blog owner personally.

You can do this by following their social media profiles, interacting with them on a personal basis, and tagging them in social media or blog posts.

This way, they will know who you are, and when you put forward your pitch, they are more likely to publish them on their blogs and allow backlinks to your blog.

Write powerful content

Write powerful content

Any guest post that is not well-written is sure to fall flat, even though you may publish it on a high authority website or blog.

If your content cannot engage the readers and offer them useful information, idea, or guidance, readers will avoid reading them, let alone clicking on your backlink to get directed to your own blog or website.

So, writing powerful content for the guest post is essential. You have to research a lot and have a solid draft ready at first.

You can, then, convert it into a full-blown guest post that can impress readers and get them hooked on.

Ideally, your pitch should also contain a stellar headline to capture the reader’s attention, call to action phrases, relevant keywords, and images.

Create a striking landing page

Create a striking landing page

Creating a backlink to your blog/website isn’t enough to get visitors attracted.

The landing page/pillar post where you want to direct the traffic from the guest post must also be well made.

It should be compelling and keep the visitors glued. The better the landing page or pillar post is, the more are your chances of getting new subscribers, leads, and conversions.

Use your bio to build an email list

Your author bio is very important and do not fill it up with unnecessary stuff like your hobbies, etc.

To make the best out of the author bio, add a lead magnet and link it back to your website or blog.

This way, readers who have liked your content will know exactly what to do next.

Clicking on the link magnet would take them to the landing page of your website or blog where you could provide them with some free information, free downloads, or anything you think the user might find useful and interesting.

Use an opt-in form to enrich your email list or use a subscribe button get subscribers right away. This will convert one time visitors to your subscribers or help you reach out to them directly via emails.

Re responsive

Communicating with your audience is an excellent way to convert them into coveted subscribers or leads that convert.

That is why, it is very important that you reply to comments on your guest post, on your original blog post, and even on social media.

Frequent communication increases chances of viewership and subscriptions, both of which are very important for any blog to succeed.

Promote your post

Promote your guest blog post

Promoting your guest post is as important as promoting your own blog posts. You cannot leave everything to the blog owner and hope to achieve the results you are looking for.

You have to put in your own effort as well. This means that once your guest post is published, you have to

promote it like you would do with any other post. Use the usual marketing tactics like social media, email marketing, etc. This will draw more traffic to your blog and the website/blog that published your guest post.

The owner will surely like the added influx of traffic and you can become a regular.

Continue with guest posting

Continue with guest posting

Writing just one guest post isn’t enough. The more guest posts you write, the more traffic will you be able to draw to your website or blog.

That being said, remember never to compromise the quality of your guest posts. Quality posts are an absolute must to ascertain yourself as an authority.

And the more you write, the better will people know you and your brand. Try to contribute to more than one blog or website to increase your online presence exponentially.

Using guest blogging to promote your blog isn’t a cakewalk. But with the right strategy and hard work, you can make guest blogging work for you.

Just find yourself a relevant topic, whip up a killer content, and use the right strategy and you will see the difference from day one!

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Guest Blogging Tagged With: content creation, content marketing, guest blog posts, guest blogging, guest blogging campaigns, guest posting, publish guest posts, submit guest post

How to stay stress free and create content for your blog?

June 10, 2019 by Jane Sheeba 1 Comment

How to stay stress free and create content for your blog? 1

At times, it seems content writing is sucking the life out of us.

You don’t want to write the next article or blog post because you feel stressed and drained.

Your brain is hammered. But your readers are always impatiently waiting for your next piece of writing. They want more content.

It happens to most content writers – even the best of us.

But content creation doesn’t have to feel like this. There are always better ways to do things.

There are smarter ways you can use to create content endlessly – without feeling stressed.

I create a lot of content myself – articles, blog posts, sales pages, email copies.

So, I have spent a lot of time pondering over my writing process and how I can make it feel friendly and easier for myself.

There has to be a systematic approach.

The demand for more content is only picking up more steam every year. It’s time to step up your game like I did.

So, without much ado, here is a list of tips I have compiled for myself to remain stress-free throughout the content creation process.

If you’re anything like me, you too should find these useful.

Here’s a related video that you might find useful:

Pick a Time and Place to Write

Before you start writing, you need to find a time and place to write.

You simply can’t expect to write great stuff when you don’t feel like writing or sit in place where your thoughts are interrupted.

Variety, as you know, is the spice of life.

When you feel like writing is becoming a routine task you can’t handle anymore, the first thing you should try is to pick a time when your productivity is at its height and a place where you feel fresh.

The best part about writing is that you can write just anywhere. It just has to be a new favorite.

Step out of your home or office and try new places.

You may like to write in a park, library, bookstore, art gallery, bar – or your aunt’s house.

Find out your best hours for writing and try writing in a new place and hopefully, you’ll fall in love with writing all over again.

Set Realistic Expectations

Many time, content creation overwhelms you simply because you set unrealistic limits for yourself.

Evaluate your content writing goals.

If you’re a one-person army, you should really check out whether the writing goals you have set for yourself are realistic.

Creativity is an important part of the content creation process. If you put too much pressure on yourself, you may lose the spark to create great stuff.

So, don’t be afraid to reduce the amount of content you are creating now.

Instead of focusing on pushing out more content, you should pay more attention to the quality of content you create.

Most people believe that users on the web have a great appetite for content, and so the more you give them the better.

Whatever niche you operate in, your audience is looking for content that can change their lives for the better.

If you believe you’re compromising the quality of content in order to publish more, you need to slow down.

Follow a Writing Template

Using a writing template makes the content creation easier and faster. You can create and use a writing template each for blog posts, sales pages, emails, press releases etc.

For example, a blog post writing template will be your base structure to build upon.

Every time you write a new blog post, you can revisit that template and get the job done without getting stressed.

A typical format for a blog post should include elements like headline, hook, image, body and conclusion.

Based on these fundamental elements, you can create a detailed template which outlines all the important parts and points of a good blog post.

Likewise, you can create a writing template for each content type that you create or plan to create for marketing purpose.

Talk (Rather than Write)

Talking is a lot easier than writing. At times when you are in a mood to talk (rather than write), just record as you speak.

Recording is an excellent technique to create all kinds of content – blog posts, sales pages, checklists, courses, quizzes etc. Use a recording app on your mobile phone to record.

Later, when you are done talking, you can easily transcribe the stuff as text.

There are multiple tools that you can use to convert your speech into written content or document file.

Using the recording technique, you can also repurpose your existing content and create new write-ups. It’s a lot of fun.

Hire Professional Help

Sometimes, the best way to deal with content creation stress is to hire someone who is ready to do it for you.

There are plenty of good content writers you can choose from. And the best thing is that hiring a writer is not dependent on location.

While you are in one country, you can hire and work with a content writer from any corner of the world. Or, you can decide to work with a reputable outsourcing agency.

When you work with someone who is open to your content ideas, you can also ask them to share their own suggestions and instructions.

They’ll be more than glad to join in and grow together with you.

Just remember to take the time to look in good places and vet the content writers well before you hire one.

Your own professional circle or group of friends is where you should start the search from.

Keeping pace with the content needs of your audience can be stressful, but it doesn’t have to be so.

Provided you make a couple of changes to your approach and apply these tips, the process of content creation will become easier and more enjoyable.

You’ll be able to create more content in less time. And you won’t have to worry about stress anymore.

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Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Content Creation Tagged With: blogging tips, content creation, content marketing, create blog content, create content consistently, How to blog consistently

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