What to look for when planning a blog post?
- Answer questions or problems that customers are searching for to answer
- Write about your industry - not your company
- Define who are your target personas
- Source internal product specialists for new information
- Reuse and repackage existing content and check with all departments to see what could be used.
- Curate relevant industry information
- Use creative tools like blog ideas generator, which help you to find compelling blog titles
Questions to ask
- What are the most frequently asked questions you hear from your prospects and customers?
- What do our buyer personas need help with?
- What do you wish people knew about your industry and your business?
- What are industry bloggers, social media, and your competitors talking about?
- Do you involve other departments for brainstorming to get to new blog post ideas?
- Which existing content can be repurposed to save time?
- Are you inviting guest bloggers?
Typical pitfalls
- Focus on topics which are not relevant for target persona
- You try to solve every problem with one blog post
- Try to do everything within your marketing department
- Overlook already existing sales material, which you can repurpose
- Curate content for the sake of doing it, without any added value
- You publish blog post irregularly and infrequently
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