The other day, I decided that in July I was going to do a “One Blog Post a Day Challenge” and invited anyone who wants to grow their business to join me for free.
If you’d love to have 31 days of new content for your blog but think that there is no way you’ll be able to come up with ideas for 31 days of content, especially in a row…here’s where I want to assure you that it won’t be too difficult.
While I have a lot of different ways to come up with ideas for content…here is one that should make it easier for you for this challenge:
Come up with a series of posts that go together. July has 31 days in it, so write a series of “31 Days of ….” where the …’s have something to do with your niche.
Do you have a blog about Soccer? “31 Ways to Improve Your Soccer Game” and every day post about one way they can improve. Do you write about recipes? “31 New Recipes you Need to Try This Summer”. If you come up with something that’s related, it will be a whole lot easier to easily come up with a month’s worth of posts. Is your blog about travel? “31 of my Favorite Travel Destinations” or “31 of my Favorite Things to do at Disney World.” You get the point…
If there’s no way you can come up with an idea that has 31 posts, why not break it down?
Do a “list” of 10, then another one of 10, and then finally one of 11 posts. “Top 10 Most Expensive (but Worth it) things You Need for this Craft”, “My 10 Favorite PLR Providers”, “11 Stores that Sell Everything You Need”.
It depends on your niche of course, but I bet you can come up with anything no matter what niche you’re in. I just like that it makes it SO much easier to come up with the rest of the ideas once you have a title.
I did this quite a few years ago on this blog. I did 30 Days to a More Productive Business. Once I came up with the title, it really wasn’t too hard to come up with a list of ideas, and as I was writing them I’d come up with more. It was an easy way to have a lot of content in a short time. I’ve done this on other blogs as well, and find that once you have a title it’s pretty easy to have a decent sized list of ideas.
…and I’m happy to say that I did what I was going to suggest you do. As the month goes on, you keep a list of all of them, so that someone can go back to your first post at any time and see all of the posts at once. This first post of tips now lists all 30 tips so someone can click on any of them to read the ones they’re interested in.
So really, you’ll have 32 days of content, as before you start Day 1, you’ll have an “Introduction” post that talks about what you’re going to do, and then will list (with a link to each blog post as they’re available) all of the 31 posts!
At this point, I haven’t even started thinking about what I’m going to write about yet…so I’m going to try to come up with something summery since this will be posted in July. So that’s my next task, and should be yours as well. First you decide to do a “One Blog Post a Day Challenge” for July, and now come up with a series of 31 of something. Once you have something you think could work, try listing at least 7-8 ideas in your head. If you can do that easily, you’ll probably have no issues coming up with more. If you can’t even come up with those, you might want to come up with a different idea. I’ll be doing the same, and will come up with my subject for the month of July.
