This can be on your site or on someone else’s. Here’s a tweet Andrew sent to gauge interest in “Growth Hacker is the New VP of Marketing.” You can share a seed of an idea on social media to see if it’s something people might like- a strategy used to great effect by Andrew Chen. You can drum up ideas by listening to the topics discussed by others, the questions they ask, and the areas that interest them. Wherever you get feedback from others-in blog comments, on social media, via email replies, etc.-use these places as idea centers.

Other tools that might work include Pinterest, Stache, Curator, and Octobox.Ģ. You can also use a tool like Evernote, which comes with a bookmarklet and browser extension for easy clipping and saving. We collect our ideas on Trello and review our ideas list on a weekly basis to see what strikes us. All of these whims and breadcrumbs can be just the thing you need to put together a complete blogpost later on. When an image grabs you on a blogpost, clip it and save it. When an idea pops into your head, jot it down. Here is a bit more depth into the strategies that we’ve tried and the methods that other bloggers might use to come up with new blogpost ideas.

We save all our ideas-no matter how small.

We spend a lot of time reading, thinking, and sharing the stories and ideas we love.

We aren’t shy about taking inspiration from others.

To recap, here are the ways we curate ideas and come up with our blog content. We had a lot of fun sharing our blogpost idea strategies in a post for the Social blog (a bonus blogpost idea: Write about your idea process!). 7 Strategies for Coming up With More Writing Ideas In general, these can be split among the following three categories. When it comes to collecting ideas for new blogposts, I’ve found three systems that tend to cover a pretty wide variety of thoughts and ideas and should help get your mind around what to write.

How to Come Up With Blogpost Ideas That Will Go Wild on Social Media Let me know if you have any extras you think could have made the list. I’ve captured as many helpful resources here as I can. The blank page must be conquered.Ĭoming up with an endless supply of blogging and writing ideas would be great, right? Fortunately there is a solid list of useful strategies, techniques, and questions that can always keep a blogging idea on the tip of your tongue. Having all the best blogging tools and resources, having a plan to share your amazing content on social media, having everything in place to put your marketing strategy into action still requires one thing: You must create the content to be shared, loved, and engaged with.

The ultimate list of blog post ideas