Content Creation ~ Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs

5 Easy Ways to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas

March 11, 2011 By Jackie Lee 19 Comments

As a blogger one of your biggest responsibilities is coming up with new content for your readers. Whether you blog daily or 3 times a week there's probably going to come a day when you just don't know what to write. Here's a few ideas to help you get out of your writer's block rut. 1. Social Media: Go to your twitter and facebook friends and see what they're talking about. Ask a question ~ their answers and conversations can give you great ideas for blog posts. 2. Keyword Question Tool: … [Read more...]

Why I Gave Up On Google…

December 7, 2010 By Jackie Lee 33 Comments

This week we got a new puppy. As a mom and a dog lover that's pretty awesome. As an affiliate marketer ~ not so much. We all know the "how to train your puppy" niche is about as big as the "how to get your ex back" niche. However, I realized this in full force last night when I, without thinking, went to google and typed in "how to housebreak your puppy". You see, the first night we had our new pooch we put her in a crate (in the living room) and she HOWLED ~ no I take that back, she … [Read more...]

Free Blog Images ~ That Can Make You Money Too!

August 25, 2010 By Jackie Lee 25 Comments

I don't use a lot of images on this blog, but images can really add to a site. They look great and can serve to keep people on your site a little longer. They can also really bring home a point you're making in your blog post. Here's the rub... Where do you find great images you can legally use without paying for them? Sure you can scour through flickr and find images you can use, but I've got another idea. Allposters.com Yep, a poster store. They have thousands of posters on … [Read more...]

This Is What I Mean by Relevance

July 3, 2010 By Jackie Lee 10 Comments

Happy 4th of July weekend to my American readers. I had no intentions of posting today, or this weekend, however, the weather has changed and a picnic in the park before fireworks (which Hanna has been SERIOUSLY looking forward to) has become a cook out on the (covered) front porch. :) With that in mind I saw the ice cream maker buried in my cabinet and thought it would be fun to make some ice cream for tomorrow's cookout. I somewhere along the line lost the recipe book that came with … [Read more...]

Overcoming Writer’s Block

June 25, 2010 By Jackie Lee 19 Comments

At some point in your blogging business you're going to hit it... writer's block. I personally feel like it is more a lack of inspiration, but most people call it writer's block. Yesterday I sat at my desk for a couple hours banging my head, trying to force things to work, and the harder I tried to make it happen the more things got messed up and refused to work. I've got a couple things that I promised myself I'd have done by the end of the week. I've been completely uninspired to write them … [Read more...]

Title Keywords: Finding the Best Keywords for Your Blog Posts

March 22, 2010 By Jackie Lee 42 Comments

While I don't think keywords are the most important thing for a blog like this I do think it's always smart to add another possible traffic stream for you blog. With some quick and easy keyword research you can include Google and the other search engines to the possible ways you can get traffic to your site. We are not going to start our work with keywords. We're going to start our work, our writing, in our imaginations, in forums ~ where people who talk about your topic hang out, at twitter, … [Read more...]

How to Write a Blog Post ~ My Top 5 Tips

March 19, 2010 By Jackie Lee 28 Comments

Next week the challenge is going to be around publishing content on your blog, so I thought I'd give you a few of my favorite tips around how to write a blog post. 1. Use keywords in your post titles. Yeah I know I said we weren't going to do all this keyword research stuff for this, but the point is search traffic is awesome, so you might as well do a little. With that said ~ I'm NOT saying go out and build a list of keywords to write your posts about. I am saying go to the editorial … [Read more...]

Content Ideas: Getting Clear and Focused

March 5, 2010 By Jackie Lee 18 Comments

Image via Wikipedia I hope your mind maps are coming along. Today I thought I'd help you take them from ideas in a mind map to an action plan for creating content. If you're having trouble coming up with content ideas I'll again suggest the blog planner from Blog Energizer. You'll have to sign up for the service (it's free) if you haven't already. Then when you log in on the right hand side you'll see a a link for the blog planner and the blog calendar. They will help you by giving you … [Read more...]

Content Creation Series ~ Creating Podcasts

January 29, 2010 By Jackie Lee 29 Comments

Listen up those of you who don't like to write... today's another content creation day for you. We're going to talk about creating podcasts. Now don't freak out... this doesn't have to be complicated or hard and if you like to talk it can be super fun! What is a podcast? Quite simply it's an audio file (usually mp3 format) available for people to listen to and download from your (or another) site. Basically that means you're talking and you let others listen and download the … [Read more...]

Content Creation Series ~ Using Youtube Video

January 27, 2010 By Jackie Lee 17 Comments

We've covered a lot of different ways to write content, today we're going to look at how we can use video to create content. While the post title is using youtube video there's a lot of different ways you can do that, so let's dig in. Why use video? Video is the latest craze in content creation. A lot of people love video. It also provides the ability to interact with more than one sense at a time which can increase retention and focus. There are many people who learn better when they are … [Read more...]