If your blog posts aren’t connecting with visitors the way you’d like, a few simple tweaks can help. Let’s look at three examples for an HVAC business blog. You can apply these ideas to any business.
Continue reading “3 Quick Tweaks for Blog Posts that Connect”Blog Ideas for Gift Boutiques
If you run a gift boutique, you may be wondering what kinds of things you can write about on your blog. It helps to put yourself in your customer’s shoes. What are they looking for?
Think of blog ideas that will help solve your customers’ gift-searching dilemmas. When you take that approach, you will come up with so many ideas you can’t wait to write.
Continue reading “Blog Ideas for Gift Boutiques”Brainstorm Your Blog: Tips for Busy Pet Care Businesses
Ready to start your pet care business blog? Coming up with content can feel overwhelming, especially week after week. Let’s look at a simple way to get started by brainstorming.
Continue reading “Brainstorm Your Blog: Tips for Busy Pet Care Businesses”Crunched for Content Writing Time? Write a One-Paragraph Q&A Blog Post
I’ve been asked how to write a short blog post to keep your business blog going when you’re crunched for time—as you might be now during the lead-up to Christmas. You can write a helpful, valuable, one-paragraph Q&A post answering a common client question. Lead with their question, as I did here. Then answer it quickly but helpfully, as you would if they were standing right in front of you. Pair it with a photo, and hit publish. Your blog will be active and visible, and clients will appreciate that one helpful tidbit you share. One paragraph is all it takes to answer a client question and share the answer with your current and future clients. Merry Christmas!
Continue reading “Crunched for Content Writing Time? Write a One-Paragraph Q&A Blog Post”Capture Last Year’s Highlights for Your New Year Business Blog
January is just a few weeks away. Are you wondering what you’ll be writing about on your business blog in the new year? Take some time this week to pause and reflect on the past year. The questions people asked, the lessons you learned, the highlights, challenges, surprises, and wisdom you’ll carry into the new year, those are all potential blog topics.
Continue reading “Capture Last Year’s Highlights for Your New Year Business Blog”A Simple Thanksgiving Blog Post that Strengthens Connection
November can be a busy time of year: holiday plans, family commitments, end-of-year tasks. It’s easy to put your blog on the back burner to simmer next to the turkey gravy.
But November is a great time to write a short, simple blog post of thankfulness. Clients love to see how they’re appreciated. And it’s a simple but effective way to keep your blog visible during a busy season.
Continue reading “A Simple Thanksgiving Blog Post that Strengthens Connection”Need Time to Write? Start with 10 Minutes
Many small business owners want to grow their blog. But it’s hard finding time to write. You’re busy growing your business. The good news is you don’t need to set aside hours of writing time. You just need 10 minutes at a time.
Continue reading “Need Time to Write? Start with 10 Minutes”Shorter Days, Shorter Blog Posts
It’s that time of year when the days become shorter. You are busy, maybe feeling a little tired. You have little time to work on your blog — and even less on the horizon with the holidays coming up. You’re just not able to write those long posts you want to share with your clients and prospects.
You’re concerned your blog will go into hibernation till January.
But you can keep your blog going by matching the rhythm of the fall season: shorter days, shorter posts.
Continue reading “Shorter Days, Shorter Blog Posts”Pumpkin Spice Blogging: Simple, Warm, Welcoming
The fall season is settling in. Perfect time to enjoy a pumpkin spice latte in a cozy nook while writing your business blog posts. When you write in a relaxed atmosphere, your blog posts are more likely to be simple, welcoming, and warmly engaging—which is exactly how your readers want to feel at this busy yet beautiful time of year.
Continue reading “Pumpkin Spice Blogging: Simple, Warm, Welcoming”3 Ways to Repurpose Last Month’s Blog Posts
One of the many things I love about blog articles is how they provide great material for other types of communication, like social posts and email newsletters, as well as round-up-style blog posts for those weeks when you are short on time.
Before you head into your next month of blogging, let’s take a look and see how last month’s blog posts can give you more communication mileage.
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Janet Eriksson 