the quick and dirty guide to creating blog posts that your audience craves
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THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE
TO CREATING BLOGPOSTS THAT YOURAUDIENCE CRAVES
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Blogging Works!
82% of marketers who blog daily acquired a
customer using their blog, as opposed to
57% of marketers who blog monthly --
which, by itself, is still an impressive result.
(HubSpot State of Inbound, 2013)
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But Blogging OnlyWorks If.......
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You're creating blog poststhat your audience craves!
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How do you createthese types of blog
posts?
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WITH THIS SIMPLE
3 STEP PROCESS!
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Find YourAudience's Pain
Points
Step One
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A pain point is a problem thatsomeone is experiencing, or
struggling with
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WHAT ARE YOUR AUDIENCE'SPAIN POINTS?
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People are actively looking for solutionsfor their pain points. Find them on:
Twitter Quora Yahoo Answers Google
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Look for these words and phrasesto identify pain points!
“help me”
“how do I”“I need”
“how can I”“I wish there was”
“need suggestions”
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Write down keywordsthat people mentionwhen referring to their
pain points
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Brainstorm BlogTopic Ideas
Step Two
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WHAT TYPE OF CONTENT DOYOU WANT TO CREATE?
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“How to”
“Ultimate Guides”
Interviews with industryleadersList posts “Top 10 ____”
News & Current Events
SOME OPTIONS FOR BLOG POSTS
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ToolsForBlogTopicIdeas
Content Ideator
Quicksprout SocialMedia Analysis Tool
HubSpot Blog TopicGenerator
Portent ContentIdea Generator
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DON'T FORGET ABOUT THEPAIN POINTS YOU FOUND
EARLIER!Use the pain points to create
blog topics. Build your post
around the pain point.
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Choose ONE Blog PostIdea To Write AboutChoose 3-5 subtopics toinclude
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Search....
Research existing articles on yourtopic to use to support yourpoints.
Linking to supporting articles in your blog posts is great forSEO! Just make sure you only link to to high quality sites.
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Time To Write!
Step Three
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CREATE A BASIC OUTLINE OFYOUR POST
Intro
Subheading #1
Subheading #2
Subheading #3
Conclusion
Call to action
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STARTWRITING
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Write Freely!
Don't worry about editing. Justlet your brain flow.
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FORMAT YOUR ARTICLEOnce you've finished free writing, format your post.Break your content into sections with subheadings.Nobody likes sloppy content!
-- Introduction: Mention what the article will be about,and what specific issue/pain point it will solve for youraudience.-- Body: Get into detail about the topic, with greatactionable content. Use subheadings to organize thedifferent sections/subtopics-- Conclusion: Wrap up the conversation. Include a callto action to drive your audience to do something oncethey’re done! Subscribe to an email list, leave acomment, tweet you with responses, etc.
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EDIT YOUR POSTCheck yourgrammarCheck your spellingInsert any links tosupporting articlesMake anynecessary changesAdd text formattingandimages/graphics
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Use BOLD, Italics, &underlines sparingly
Getting too fancy will make your
content difficult to read.
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Add images, graphs, tables, and custom
graphics to make your blog post visually
appealing
50%
90% of information transmitted to the brain
is visual. Visuals are processed 60,000X
faster in the brain than text.
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Create an
eye catching
featured
image for
your post
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TOOLS TOCREATEGRAPHICSCanva
Gimp
Pixlr Photoshop
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PUBLISH!Do your happy
dance!
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