2010年8月7日星期六

3 Steps For Never Running Out of Blog Ideas

Missed or late blog postings occur primarily from not having prepared content ahead of schedule to accommodate unforeseen business roadblocks, not from lack of ideas. Procrastination, unexpected situations, emergencies, and brain cramps may be the catalyst to encourage missed deadlines, but these are not the problem.
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Having experienced all of the above on at least one occasion, I decided it was time to change tactics from being passive-inclined to action-inclined.

Speaking with other bloggers on strategies used to meet scheduled blogging times and specific methods to avoid running out of ideas, I came away with some great advice, the more productive of which I wish to pass on to you, beginning with...

BOI File - bank-of-ideas
Have you ever had a great blog idea suddenly pop into your head only to just-as-quickly lose it within the next few seconds, after unexpectedly getting sidetracked by someone or something else?

Trying to recall that great thought which briefly skirted your mind can be frustrating enough while you strain to remember, but knowing the more you try the further away it seems to disappear into oblivion can drive a person crazy.

Our best thoughts, ideas, and concepts can suddenly pop up unheeded and without warning at some of the most inopportune times of the day. When they abruptly appear, the trick is to not let them forever die on the threads of our memories.cheap nfl jerseys

Learn to memorialize your ideas the moment they materialize by any means possible whether with pen and paper, a voice recorder, cell phone or blackberry. And time permitting, promptly transfer the information to your computer blog work area for future quick reference.

A small innocuous voice recorder serves my purpose fine. I now use it frequently since discovering over 17 different accumulated ideas fuelling my idea bank by the end of the first week of trying this method.

Any one of your thoughts memorialized and tucked away in your bank-of-ideas could be the catalyst to kick-start those creative juices into overdrive during a mental slump, brain cramp syndrome, or a bad case of procrastinitis.

Consider this a first step towards enabling yourself to never come up short of blog ideas.

DBIT File - draft-blogs-in-transition
Without much effort, any one of those saved ideas may blossom into a first draft full of insightful copy.nfl throwback jerseys

When an idea has grabbed my attention I immediately begin typing to exhaustion about anything that comes up about the idea, usually finishing with six to eight pages staring back at me on the computer screen. Amazing, considering a thought memorialized in my bank-of-ideas could produce so much blog material.

By allowing myself to freely go with the flow on the idea and instantaneously type out everything that comes to mind on the subject, I am often left with more than enough material to continue working this rough draft to the next level, but at this point I save and file it away for now.

Whenever I reopen the draft file again, it is to cut, hack, and rework all the pages of content until I am left with at least two separate blogs on the same topic from the one initial idea.

On a good day I will settle for at least two blogs from all the pages typed, but on a great day I am overjoyed when I can squeeze out three.

Arriving at this point means continually working the drafts to completion, as finished blogs.

With no rush or deadline hanging over your head to finish quickly or keep to schedule, you will discover working without pressure can be very enlightening as well as rewarding.

You might even get used to it once you can sit back and view your accomplishments.

Going from this second step of preparing a number of drafts to work on, time permitting, takes us to the third and most important final step.

BRTP File - blogs-ready-to-post

The most significant change I made in the fight against running out of blog ideas, is to always maintain a reserve of five to ten ready-to-post blogs to accommodate any potential missed posting threats.

The biggest contributors to building your reserve of blogs are the 'bank-of-ideas' and 'draft-blogs-in-transition.'football jersey

Emergency situations, unexpected meetings, computer problems
and delays, brain cramps, procrastination, lack of ideas, whatever, should no longer interfere with your blogging schedule or undermine any attempt to come up with brilliant blog ideas, while sitting on five to ten fully completed blogs in reserve available for immediate postings.

Find a happy medium and prepare a reserve of blogs to suit your particular comfort zone.

Experience has shown five minimum in reserve will accommodate most long term emergency situations which may occasionally occur, but preparing more can frequently address other types of situations as well.

On occasion there may be developing situations which may require a certain topic be addressed in an upcoming blog, and there is no greater satisfaction and relief knowing a finished blog covering the necessary material is sitting in your reserve of blogs ready for immediate posting.

The overall formula may appear simplistic at first glance, but don't allow that to distract from the rewards and benefits to be had when you work on developing these good habits:


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