More Thought Starters

1. Consult a legal pad that you carry with you to jot down ideas for moments like these
2. Retrieve notes you took at an industry trade show (this may cover several weeks of blogging)
3. Review the list of keywords you were provided when your blog was installed; these are long tail keywords that help you drill down into your business
4. Make a list: 11 must-ask questions about your industry, 19 things people love about one of your leading brands, and so forth
5. Drill into speeches you’ve delivered for nuggets to turn into articles
6. Look through our blog categories and write in one you’ve neglected – or establish a new category
7. Read your trade association’s website, pick one part that resonates with you and write about it, including a link to the trade association - after you post, email your trade association to request a reciprocal link
8. Go to a search engine, type, “what to blog about” and read articles in the results pages
9. Add a Google News Alert related to your industry; comment on new articles that you read as a result
10. Use Google Trends to dig into your industry for blogging ideas
11. Find out what’s hot by visiting AllTop.com and putting your industry into their internal search box
12. Review a book about your industry (and post a link to where the book can be purchased)
13. Read your competitor’s blog (you can write a better article than they do!)
14. Use guest posts from a customer, manufacturer’s rep or employee
15. List 100 ideas, no matter how idiotic they seem, just write without editing until you have 100; you will find several great article ideas buried in the list (with a tip of the hat to Earl Nightingale for this idea)