21 Lightening Online Business Ideas for Creating Blog Content
- Use Your Twitter Stream to generate ideas: one of the smartest online business ideas was twitter. That is because they are the only major social media that will allow your audience to share their thoughts without being asked. I explain how to do that in detail here.
- Read your Monday Morning Updates from Facebook. You would be amazed of the ideas you can get from this.
- Linkedin Group Discussions can help generate some fantastic online business ideas for content.
- Follow the blogs in your keyword phrases who are on the 1st 2nd (2-20) pages. Look at the keyword phrases you are targeting and Google them. This is also a great way to get ahead of your competitors.
- Create metaphors from famous people and movies: Look at what I wrote about Robert DeNiro and Michael Jordan
- Combine two different blogs to make one post. Create a mega post by tying several posts together under one theme.
- Create a argument post against or to counter a popular post about someones blog post: Just be careful because you want to make a valid argument otherwise you end up looking as a stupid attention grabber.
- Take a lesson from a classic book i.e. You Were Born Rich: The key here is to use the not so visible and published concepts. Do you realize that the most famous person in the world Michael Jackson (RIP) has unheard of songs? And I mean these songs have been out for 30 years on albums that weren’t super popular. Same for Stevie Wonder and the same goes for authors. I am not saying plagurize but write content based on the concepts and credit them as the source.
- Watch Youtube and create a written version of the content you see presented and add your own concepts and ideas.
- Listen to podcasts and custom fit a video or written version to your blog content.
- Find 3 of the most retweeted content in your niche and make a article series from them.
- Create written content from any webinars you have done. You can also create your version for your niche from a webinar.
- Create a survey and ask your readers what they would like to read.
- Look at the top 10 Google trends in your niche and make a combination of the results post. For instance a trending topic could be freelance writing and go green blogging. So you create a post called “7 ways to freelance writing with a green blog”.
- Look at your Twitter lists that you follow and the ones that follow you and generate articles.
- Watch the most commented posts on the top 5 blogs in your niche and create a detailed countdown to the top 10most commented posts.
- Ask for THEMED guest blogging. That means it is one thing to write a guest post but another to write in relation to their theme. A SEO expert needs to be posting their theme and angle on your blog. Here is another way to look at themes. Focus on bloggers that have micro niches. Not just SEO but SEO for a particular profession (in relation to yours) or a specific area of SEO (linking and article marketing masters for instance).
- Make a top ten funniest things in your niche.
- Blog about a blogger. For a year I did Seth Godin Sundays. Just because I like marketing genius Seth Godin. I wasn’t trying to impress him or get anything from him I just think he is cool.
- Create the ANTI blog subject series. I have yet to meet someone that didn’t like something happening in their niche. So blog about it. You don’t have to be negative towards someone or the subject itself. You can actually talk about what you DON’T like and then delve into the details of what you do like.
- Read manifestos. I like Johnathan Fields Firefly Manifesto. You could get a ton of ideas from a post like that.
