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3 Steps to Get Over Blogger’s Block

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Blogging for business growth is not just a writing exercise in which you cough up 500 words and call it a day. It starts with having a complete understanding of what matters to you, your niche, and your business.

When you understand the 3 components that make a blog post convert, you can use this 3-step process to generate article ideas, so you won’t be staring at a blinking cursor on a blank screen, cursing Blogger’s Block, ever again.

Blogging Tips | Use these three steps to get over Blogger's Bloc and learn how to write posts that convert.

3 Steps to Get Over Blogger’s Block: How to Generate Blog Topics that Convert

1. Write down the various aspects of ____ (business, relationship, career etc.) that matter to your ideal clients.
There are different ways to start this brainstorming, think about: your own experience/life story, current events, seasonal topics, your opinions on something happening in your field, or what riles you up about your industry.

Don’t constrain yourself to problems directly related to your products or services. Focus on what frustrates your audience in the broader category, and what inspires them. Make sure you get into their heads, and understand what they think, how they act, and how they feel – this is the ticket to making your content personal and relatable.

2. Drill down and relate the solution they are looking for to the essential components of your process and expertise.
From step 1, you have a list of challenges, problems, pains, and desires.

Now, we want to communicate why you are RELEVANT to your ideal clients by relating their challenges/desires to your process, skills, superpower, tools, and expertise.

You can write the most epic article on the planet, but unless people understand why your content is relevant to them, they don’t care.

When working with clients, I often start with designing a signature system, which is a great way to articulate “what you do and how you do it,” so you can confidently communicate your products’ or services’ relevance to your ideal clients.

From your signature system, you can break out one step, or one point within a step, and turn it into a post by first leading with the problem it solves.

Pro Tip: If you have a 7-step system, and each system has 3 points, you can easily come up with 21 or more posts to write! Also, one step, or one point, may solve multiple symptoms, so you can write one post about each symptom that each point solves… do the math, it’s a goldmine!!

Sometimes your solution may focus on the root cause of their problems, and the correlation may not be apparent to your readers. That’s why we want to cast a wider net in step 1, so we can drill down and relate their daily frustrations to your offering.

If there are a few steps between what they think their problem is, and the solution you offer (it happens often in the personal development space), you may have to start from the symptoms, educate your readers on the root cause, and relate the root cause to the solution you provide.

Your content needs to articulate their “symptoms” – the thing that they are actively seeking solution for – and how your process, tools, experiences, and talents can help solve their problem.

3. Look at your marketing plan holistically, and orchestrate your content to support your marketing effort and sales cycle.
Now you have a long list of stuff to write about, we need to filter and prioritize.

Your marketing calendar and sales cycle can inform when you write what. You can also fold in seasonal topics, current events, personal experience, or client stories to make the content timely, relevant, and relatable.

Example: If you are launching a program, the content leading up to the launch should build awareness, get those who are interested in that particular topic to engage, build trust, and boost your expert status.

Using content to support your marketing effort also means more than just publishing a blog post. Promoting the post to reach the right audience is just as important, if not more so, than writing it.

Promoting content on various social media platform may mean writing them up slightly differently to suit the format and the audience.

Even with the variation, we need to ensure that the different pieces work synergistically with each other to communicate a cohesive message, an aligned narrative, and your personality.

The most important thing you need to know about the fear of “running out of ideas” – YOU WON’T!

The more you write the more ideas will be sparked.

Through the process of writing out your thoughts you will gain deeper understanding of your area of expertise. As you get more clarity, you will have more to share and you will develop a unique perspective that will attract the right clients to you.

This is the clarity-action upward spiral – you get enough clarity to take action, and when you take action, you are required to take a stand and make decisions, which help you gain more clarity.

When you dig deeper into your topic, when you see how your talent and experience relate to your ideal clients’ lives, you will be able to articulate your expertise and point of view from more angles.

The key is, you have to start somewhere to build that momentum. It is about having the “Turning Pro” mindset, to sit down and do the work even if it’s not love and light all the time.

When you write more, you may feel like you are repeating yourself. You may find yourself talking about the same principles from two dozens angles. You may get bored. You may feel like you need to switch gears and talk about something else to “stay fresh.”

Don’t worry about that! Stick to your guns.

In fact, you are probably onto something when YOU are bored about the stuff you write about. That’s a sign of you honing in on your message and a sign that a strong theme is emerging from your work.

Only you, your mother, and your cat will read everything you have written. The rest of the world needs multiple exposures, explained from various perspectives (only one or two will really hit home for each individual), for your ideas and message to sink in.

By introducing your solution from different perspectives, you will be able to get through to more people who interpret their challenges, pains, and problems in different ways.

You have to find your value and beliefs important enough for you to keep writing. Unless you are utterly connected to them and show your passion, your readers won’t care.

Author Bio: Ling

Ling is an Intuitive Brainiac. Through her unique blend of Business + Marketing coaching with a Mindset + Psychic Twist, she helps the highly creative, intuitive, multi-talented, and multi-passionate maverick solo-entrepreneurs distill ALL their big ideas into ONE cohesive Message, nail the WORDS that sell, and design a Plan to cut the busywork and do what matters, through her intuitive yet rigorous iterative process born out of her Harvard Design School training and 10 years of experience in the online marketing industry. Find Ling and grab her free “How to Find YOUR Winning Formula” Training Series at Business Soulwork.

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  1. Erika Swafford says

    This was just what I needed right now! And thank you for pointing out that one’s message will need to be repeated again in different perspectives. I hadn’t thought of that and felt like I’d already talked about my main points. Thank you!