How to Come up with Topics for my Company Blog

 Promote Products and Tools You Love

In building up a reputation as being an authority in your chosen niche, recommending reliable products and tools is a great way to build trust amongst readers. It is the sign of a business that feels comfortable with who they are when they can take the time to share knowledge with their audience. It’s also pretty easy for the writer — all you need to do is choose some relevant resources and share them with people in a great format.

Raving about something you use regularly that helps your business run smoother isn’t a difficult task for most of us. Your readers will feel that your post is very valuable, simply because it comes from your actual love of the product. This post should be written with a conversational tone, like one friend talking to another and your readers will eat it up.

Take some time to look over the products and tools you use in your day-to-day business operations —  is it possible to come up with an 800-word review of the features and benefits?

Take a look at their competitors — do they measure up to the same standards, or do they go above and beyond? How about creating a comparison table? Readers love interactive content like infographics, charts and tables. They are easy to scan and add immense value to your post. 

Conducting a research exercise may uncover new products for you to try in the future, which can also be a boon to your business. You can then write about those products in a later post. 

This is an easy way of creating amazing resources of relevant tools and products for your audience. And you could even choose to monetize the posts with affiliate links! Just be sure to share with your audience that you may receive payment if they purchase the product, but that you only endorse products that are very worthy of your liking.

FAQ’s

Frequently asked questions posts are a great way to provide your readers with the content they need to make a purchasing decision. They are also a surefire way of creating content that’s user friendly, and easy for the writer too. By mining keyword research and the ‘suggested searches’ on Google, you will have a list of top 20 questions people want answers to in no time.

Readers love FAQs as they are easy to read and like we said above, answer all of their questions. This type of content will be easily shared and stored as a bookmark, so that your readers can come back for the answers when they need them.

Covered your core topic already? Think about crossover topics. For example, if you run a blog on photography, create an FAQ post on a related subject like shooting videos or Instagram marketing. Cross-pollinate your expertise and promote your post on related forums and open source content platforms such as Quora.

Raid Your Inbox for Topics for the Company Blog

If you’ve recently sent an extended and interesting email, consider summarizing it for a large audience by talking about the issues that got you typing in the first place.

For example, if you are consulting on a new website feature, create a post out of the research you conducted in helping you come to this business decision. Or collate all the different conversations you’ve had with designers and developers into a ‘how to’ post. Your readers will be interested in this type of post, as it gives them some background on your process and how you come up with your ideas and products.

Similarly, if you’ve signed an email petition about a subject you care about, consider sharing the campaign on your blog to increase exposure. Be wary of politically sensitive issues, as you don’t want to alienate your fans.

Recycle A Post

Go back into your blog archive and pick out a post that got a lot of hits a few years ago. There may be a way for you to update the content and apply some copywriting tricks to make it seem like brand new.

• Use Google Keyword Planner to find long-tail keywords you can use to change the SEO focus of the text.
• Check any updates to the industry and rewrite the paragraphs to suit, advertising that the post had been updated with the latest insights.
• If it is a detailed post about days gone by, write an update based on how you have developed over the years since.
• Utilize the #TBT (throwback Thursday) hashtag and share an updated nostalgia piece.
• Add new data to the post and consider turning it into a pillar post, and link other relevant blog posts to it.

Embrace Internet Culture

If your content is a bit flat, look up some broader trends and come up with a way you can revitalize your content.

For instance, create a list of memes which perfectly sum up your reader’s feelings towards a specific topic — this is the type of content sites like Buzzfeed are famous for. You can find many free content generation tools that can help you create customized meme imagery. This is a great idea for more humorous and light-hearted content that’s easy to knock up.

Why not create a top 10 list of videos too? For example, if you run a blog about interior design, create a list of videos that will inspire people to tackle their kitchen in 2018. Listicles are one of the most shared type of content for a number of reasons. They are easily to scan and let the reader quickly skim the post without missing out on much. People also love rankings and are interested in seeing what you consider the “best of” on your list.

Create a roundup post of the most influential social media users in your industry. This roundup post could be the beginning of fruitful partnerships and sponsors. At the very least, send them a link to your blog in the hopes that they repost the link to their fans. Engaging with influencers is always a great way to get in-depth thought knowledge for your posts and it may help you come up with more post ideas for the future. As well, these thought leaders could be potential leads for your business.

User-Generated Content

Create a branded hashtag on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter and ask your followers to respond to a question with their photos and comments.

User-generated (UG) content is a great way to drive traffic to your blog, and there are many ways you can inspire your fans to take part. You could run your UG campaign as a competition and offer a prize for the best submission. Alternatively, you can send discount codes for selected entries that use the hashtag on their social media profiles. Once you have gathered together a list of great responses, take screengrabs and share the content in a series of posts.

When you’re too overwhelmed to spend a lot of time crafting fantastic content, look for ways you can ‘double up’ and still achieve something special. As far as you can, welcome audience participation, and always keep them at the center of everything that you do. Check out this previous post for 20 other blog post topics.

You don’t have to create topics for the company blog on your own

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