Content Creation ~ Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs

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...]

Content Creation Series: Q and A Post

January 25, 2010 By Jackie Lee 17 Comments

One of my favorite content creation methods is using questions that come directly from my readers and answering them in a post. These kind of posts are fantastic for a couple reasons: you know you're giving information people want the answers to (because someone actually asked!), and the content is usually pretty easy because it's something you know and don't have to research ~ just answer the question. Setting up a Q and A post: You can set up a Q and A post any way you want it or any way … [Read more...]

8 More Ways to Use PLR to Your Advantage

January 22, 2010 By Jackie Lee 19 Comments

Today I want to cover some different ways you can use PLR in your business. If you're having trouble creating all the content you need for your business I hope this will help give you some ideas on how you can get it done a little easier. Before we get started with the ways you can use PLR I just wanted to address a question I have received about PLR (and apparently Nicole has been asked the question too because she did a whole video on the answer.) Since she's the PLR expert I thought I'd … [Read more...]

PLR Basics ~ An Easy Way to Create Content

January 20, 2010 By Jackie Lee 25 Comments

So far this month I've covered 8 different ideas for content creation. They have all been things you can write about on your blog (depending on the type and topic of your blog of course). Today and Friday I'm going to talk about a content creation method that can be helpful to those "non writers" out there ~ as well as the people who just don't have enough time to write all this content. Today we're going to talk about PLR. What is PLR? PLR stands for Private Label Rights. What this … [Read more...]

Content Creation Series: Op Ed Piece

January 18, 2010 By Jackie Lee 11 Comments

This is one of my favorite types of posts to write and I should probably do it more often. This is the post that is purely your opinion. Opinion Editorial post. What is an op ed piece? It's a post where you find something related to your industry and simply give your opinion on the topic. (on this blog it is often called a RANT) :) You can choose a news story, or something that's recently happened, a recent change in your niche, somebody who did a "dumb" thing. The things you can write an … [Read more...]