How to Create Content When You are Stuck
SHOWNOTES
In the world of blogging, content marketing, and online entrepreneurship, sometimes one of the biggest challenges we face is trying to figure out WHAT TO TALK ABOUT.
I know I’m not the only one who has spent the better part of a morning staring at a blinking cursor on a computer screen and feeling discouraged. It happens.
When I’m really stuck, I have a go-to list of exercises and resources and I’m going to share those with you today.
💡 Go to Amazon bestsellers section and look in the comments for questions that might help you.
💡 Type on any search query in Answer the Public and discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas.
💡 Enter your subject in Portent Idea Generator and it will give you clickable headlines.
💡 Take a peek at what’s trending on YouTube and Google Trends.
💡 Go see what topics Dummies Research have published books on.
💡 Search through Alexa Flash Briefings top sites by category
💡 Use Social Bearing a search engine powered by tweets.
💡 Explicit searches in Google.
e.g. [topic/niche] + forum
[topic/niche] + discussion
[topic/niche] + community
[topic/niche] + blog
💡Leverage Twitter Advanced Search. Even if you are not a big Twitter user, when it comes to looking for ideas, it’s a gold mine and worth having an account if only for that purpose.
💡Pick up the phone and call a customer or client and ask them what they want to know.
💡Work on something completely different: catch up on that online course you never finished, read a book (fiction, even!), listen to music, organize your workspace and go for a walk and listen to a podcast that is outside of your niche.
💡Use the Voice Typing feature in Google Docs and just start talking about something. Something is bound to come out of that.
💡Write morning pages.
💡Create 3 months of consistent, compelling and strategic content in a few hours with the Front Row CEO Content Planning System.
💡Go into a Facebook group that is filled with your ideal customers, click on the search bar and type in "I'm struggling with" or "I need help with". (Be sure to use quotation marks.) See what pops up and let that guide you in your content creation.
If you aren’t feeling motivated, you might be a little burned out and/or this pandemic might be zapping all of your umph. On days like this, acknowledge what is happening and trust that the fire in your belly will return. In the interim, try some of the stuff I mentioned, or just WALK AWAY for a little bit.
RESOURCES
Amazon bestsellers section
Alexa Flash Briefings top sites by category
Also search on Google:
