Comments on: Marketing by Degrees http://futureperfectpublishing.com/2008/09/28/marketing-by-degrees/ Exploring new trends and possibilities in book publishing Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: orionwell http://futureperfectpublishing.com/2008/09/28/marketing-by-degrees/#comment-4337 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:01 +0000 http://orionwell.wordpress.com/?p=848#comment-4337 Hi Sarah -
It is easy to hit a wall with blogging. Here are some tips you can use to beat the block.
1. Get an RSS feed reader and point it to sites that talk about things in your topic domain. This often provides great ideas for a blog post. With the RSS reader you avoid the site surfing – the posts comes to you.
2. Interview people pertinent to your topic. I have found that people are very willing to do interviews for a blog. Send them 8-10 questions via e-mail. When they send back their responses, the post is practically written for you.
3. Invite people to be guest bloggers; perhaps writing one post per month.
4. Try writing reviews of books that relate to your subject area. These are generally easier to write than other types of posts.
5. Do a Links of the Day type of post. This is basically a list of 4-5 sites that you find really interesting and think your readers might, too. You can write a one sentence annotation of each link to give them an idea of what they will find when they click on it.
6. Do a “5 things . . .” type of post. This is a post that has a title like “5 Things You Should Always Do when [fill in the blank].” It is just a simple bulleted list. People tend to like these becasuse they are useful and easy to read.
7. Go to YouTube and add a video that highlights what you are talking about. The maxim that a picture is worth a thousand words definitely applies in blogging.
8. If you blog about things that are topical or in the news, set up a Google alert based on a useful you did about that topic. Then Google will automatically rerun the search and e-mail you the results based on a frequency you specify. You can get multiple posts by continuing to update a story with the new information you get from the alerts.
9. Monitor your topic or story on Twitter. You will often find new twists to a story, people you can interview or links to sites that provide great information you can incorporate into your posts.

Anyway, hope this helps.
Cheers,
- Tom

]]> By: Sarah Robison http://futureperfectpublishing.com/2008/09/28/marketing-by-degrees/#comment-4336 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:58:56 +0000 http://orionwell.wordpress.com/?p=848#comment-4336 Sorry if this is a little off topic but I was wondering how you come up with ideas on what to write about? It seems like you put a lot of work into this site and I was just wondering how you do it. As a website owner myself I often experience writers block. How do you get past it?

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