Internet Babel

Anyone who owns a niche blog and attempts to post prolifically knows how hard it can be to keep up regular quality of content. You may find yourself running out of post ideas now and then.

Here’s some ways to find inspiration…

Social networking sites – Sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon with constant interesting content can be great sites to visit to help aid fresh post ideas. There is constantly fresh new articles and stories posted so not saying you should copy those but just use them to inspire new ideas. Such as if you see a post on something you feel passionate about and strongly disagree with, if it’s related to your blog… post your opinion on it. And if you don’t have a blog on something you feel passionate about… make one!

Other blogs – Again, a great way to inspire thought. Go take a gander at some popular blogs and see what they’re talking about and post your opinion on it. Maybe you see an inexperienced blogger post on something and they get something wrong or give spurious advice and it’s mass read, bring this to attention.

Forums – Another social retreat to help inspire ideas. Take a look at what topics are popular and which you have an input on. This is also nice strategic posting as if you do this a lot you will always be talking about popular things in your niche at that time. But I’d recommend only doing this when you’re stuck, try and come up with truly unique things whenever possible.

TV – Watching TV can help. If you put the news on and see some interesting stories… I mean, you never know what topics will be covered so always check out the latest news. Sometimes you can get lucky and a big story can break about what you blog about, which doesn’t sound like a big thing but if you blog about something to an obsessed few, it can be.

Audiobooks and books – Probably one of the easiest and biggest ways to provoke immediate thought in my opinion. Listen to and read things from people you admire. If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur you’d be surprised what passionate thought listening to some classic motivational books can inflame. I don’t mean sit down like an obsessive freak, just shove one on the background as your working on something else until you hear something that inspires you. I recommend Think and Grow Rich. And the same with regular books, just have a quick read to get some inspiration, it can go a long way.

So if you’re ever stuck for posting again, just try any of the above methods. I’m sure you’ll have a ton of ideas soon enough.

Oh, and the picture incase your wondering. I know it’s a bit irrelevant given it’s boxing, but it’s just a classic picture of someone at the height of their inspirational power and Ali was and still is an inspiration to a lot of people so I thought it was the perfect picture.