Well everyone, I'm giving away my secret to how I get some many blog ideas! The secret is open your eyes, look around, listen, and write down or record everything.
You see when ever I am talking to someone who has a question...Guess what? That is a blog post! If one person wants the answer, then others do also. I see something funny to me...Guess what? That is a blog post! I'm angry about something...Guess what? That is a blog post! I have a question...Guess what? Wrong! I search for other posts about that!
But, you get my point. There are great blog ideas all around us, you just need to recognize them as such. Life is full of things we can blog about, but you need to learn how to harness them and put them into words for the world to see.
You are an expert at something and people ask you questions everyday. If you can answer them in words, then transfer those words to your blog and start posting! I'm not really anyone special to come up with new blogs everyday, I have just learned to observe the world in a slightly different way, and you can too.
Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8738
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
http://www.ifoundyournewhome.com/
Update: Two days after I wrote this blog, another post was written and they were doing a show about blog ideas and I thought it could be such good information, that I'm putting a link on my page to that post The Answer To "How Do I Get a Great Blog?????" !!!!!!
Jason - Had I not gotten four e-mails this week asking me how I come up with ideas, i wouldn't have written this one! I really don't mind, but I figure I would send my answer out to the masses.
Todd, One is never idea poor, what's difficult is getting the time and the focus to get out what's in our head... and our ever growing post-do list. Right now, it's about two weeks long... and it has been for some time now.
Am exhausted just thinking about it.
cheers
Howdy Todd
Very very good post. Your very right, ideas are everywhere you are.
Have a good one
Todd, i just started to blog, thanks for sharing how easy is to have blog ideas. regards. lupe from burbank
Aurelia - Hmmmm, that gives me a blog idea - lol
Gary - Buy a voice recorder that comes with voice recognition software for your computer. You say the post into the voice recorder and the software transcribes it for you. Then all you have to do is some minor edits and post away. Saves a lot of time!
Patricia - I'm worried that you haven't sobered up yet. I haven't seen that blog about your settlement - lol
Bryant - I was surprised by your wife even a couple months ago when she said she had writers block. I didn't think it was possible with Alligators in the back yard! That should be good for at least 4 or 5 posts.
Dale - We just have to open our eyes are realize it!
Rick - I would stop writing about the ducks at this point. Sad loss it was!
Mehmet - Hope it helps you in your blogs in the future!
Bridget - If you come up with an idea while driving and don't have a voice recorder. CALL YOURSELF and leave a message. When my wife is in the car, I've had her write down and idea or two for me, so I can drive. I'm lucky I don't drink despite what the content of my blogs says.
Ilyce - I look at this way, if one person is asking so our others. One more client could be waiting for the answer before deciding who to hire.
Kathy - Yes, my wife proof reads every blog of mine! She doesn't proof read my comments, but she should sometimes. Thanks for the mime one; she wasn't so sure on that one herself. That is one of the ones she was shaking her head on when she got done with it.
Lupe - Hope it gets you many more blogs in the future. Just listen and look, they are truly everywhere.
Tony - I think a blog is just an extension of our selves and if we can pass on our knowledge to others through our blogs, then it also saves us time. A client isn't on the phone. You can tell 25 clients a day the answer to the same question and not get a thing done, but if 25 people read your blog. You have spent 20 minutes telling 25 people the same thing.