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Business Blogging - 5 Tips to Help You Barrel Through Writers Block

Copyright 2004 Tinu AbayomiPaul

Its inevitable. Everyone hits the wall. Whether youve
been blogging ten weeks, ten minutes, or ten months,
eventually youll find yourself with absolutely nothing to
say.

Or so you think.

So what in the world do you do when youre stumped?

1- Talk about what youve already talked about

Pick a topic youve gone over before and give it some spin.

Try a new angle, like playing devils advocate. For
example, if you are a search engine journalist, and last
week your position was that most mainstream sites need
Google traffic to survive, try proving your point from the
con perspective, instead of the pro position.

There are dozens of ways to write about the same thing. By
putting your point another way, you might give someone in
your audience what a client of mine referred to as an
Ah-ha! moment. That's when they realize the true value of
the items for sale at your site to them and their business.

2- Talk about what someone else is talking about

If you want to have a popular blog, find other bloggers in
similar areas, and talk about what they said in their
posts. Friendly debate can often spark the soap-opera like
drama that will have both your audiences visiting both
blogs to see what the other fella had to say.

As an added bonus, if both of you are using Trackback in
your blogs, youve got yourself a mini-link party that
other people who are speaking on similar topics will want
to join..

3- Have yourself a good rant

The intimate nature and voice of blogs lends itself well to
the opinionated, angry ramble. But as a professional, dont
let yourself get too unfocused, and remember to back up
your opinion with facts.

4- Feature someone, something or somewhere

I like to call mine of the Day.

As I zip around the Net conducting my business and
research, if my attention is called to a resource or tool
that my audience might find useful, I hit my blog
bookmarklet and save that bad boy for later.

Then when I get too busy for a full blown tip, Ill crown
the resource, feed, tool, download or freebie the featured
Deal of the Day, changing the word deal to something else
more appropriate as needed.

After a while, my audience started to look for it as a
feature, as opposed to being upset at the interruption in
my mad, mad rambles.

5- Let someone else talk for a change

Invite a guest blogger, or post an article that offers free
reprint rights, the same way you would in a newsletter. Of
course you want to leave the resource box intact, or let
the guest promote their site, which brings me to the most
common complaint about this tactic.

But I dont want to send people away from my site.

Guess what? Youll never believe what I found out. Ready?

In a recent startling discovery, Ive found that 100% of my
visitors eventually turn off their computers or take
otherwise drastic measures that cause them to leave my
site. Apparently this is beyond prevention, though you can
stall them for hours sometimes with good content.

Of course you dont want to send them on their way
prematurely, but if youre a good blogger, and have done
what you can to make sure they sign up to your blog email
updates or site feed, theyll be back. Just be sure that
youre giving them a good enough reason.

In the meantime, since theyre going to leave anyway, it
might as well be somewhere that gives you some direct or
in-direct benefit.

So there you have it - enough material for five more days
of posts.

Happy Blogging!

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