8 Tips for Writing a Blog

Everyone is telling you it is all about content marketing and making sure you have a blog.  Well if you are involved in #social media or thinking about jumping in, remember it is about the #content you can offer your followers. 

Where do you begin?

1. When thinking of what you should write about. Make the content of interest to your audience or who you want to attract. Your followers want to learn from you. So offer them relevant content.
   
2. How to find the content that your readers might find useful or that is trending?  An interesting tool is #Google Trends. You can type in words and see how they chart. You can break it down by region, country, city, days, months, years and even terms.  Try it, this is a very cool tool.
   
3. Creating a story or making it personal.  The reader wants to get to know you, what makes you tick and the path you traveled. 
   
4. Lists are easy ways for your readers to scan what you are writing about. There is so much information on the web that a reader wants to be able to get to the point quickly.
   
5. Add photos and use #color when bolding words. This breaks up the #content and will make it more interesting and easier on the readers eyes.
   
6. Have a great #Headline.  A good headline will attract 80% of your readers. You can search online for key points on writing headlines to attract readers.
   
7. Write often. Remember consistency is very important. If you appear once and the reader enjoys your post, and you don’t post for a while, the reader will forget you.
   
8. Jump in!  It is scary to start writing but it will only get easier once you begin to write.
   

Do you have a blog and what do you write about?  Leave a comment, you might have some great insight for the next reader.  Thanks!

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