Top 2 Ways To Brainstorm For Blogging

In this article I am going to illuminate a few quick and easy ways you can get ideas for your blog in a hurry, and how to turn these ideas into cold hard cash quick! Everyone who walks down the perilous path of the pen (or the pixel!) knows that before too long, no matter how much passion you bring to the table, the ideas start to go south…and STALE. This is unfortunately the spot that most blogs (and the bloggers behind them) intersect with frustration and failure in a major league way. So let’s take a quick look at what the big league (and big buck) blogs do, to augment their articles and amp UP their productivity with minimal time, energy and effort invested. Read on!

Find Em’ and Flock Em!

This is my favorite approach to building blogs in a new niche and doing it in rapid fire turn around time. Flock is a FREE browser that has some build tools that make most hardcore bloggers drool with delight. Very simply, you can take 30 minutes a day and find GREAT content, resources and information around the web, RIGHT click on the story and bring up the Flock blog post editor….with one simple stroke of your mouse finger, you can send that content RIGHT up to your OWN site (once you take 2 minutes to configure your post preferences) and have a new news story showing “live at 5″ at the tip top of the totem pole that is your own domain. A few quick best practices are these: Simply add an opening paragraph of commentary to each story you use this way, as it will add “uniqueness” to the content you are collecting, plus of course it adds your own spin, which is important to stand out from the pack. ( and the original post) I can literally do 20 of these before lunch, and can get it all done while watching Flava of Love Season 3 re-runs, my favorite all time TV show.

Clip it and Stick it!

Clip-marks is even EASIER to use than Flock, and does many of the same things in other unique ways. Again, ( and we can do this easily while watching Days of our Lives) we are simply firing up our favorite RSS reader, finding good content relevant to our niche ( or just pulling from our subscriptions) and “clipping” our content to the native tool by highlighting it, and hitting CLIP! You can then paste this either into your account, or in a similar style editor as before, then posting it quickly and easily to the websites of our choice.

Both of these great tools take the problem of attribution and formatting out of your hands as well - giving the original source of the content a nice big thank you in the form of a clear link back, making other publishers in your niche appreciative of your efforts (as you are giving them a valuable link, and a plug) all while building your own big buck blog in the process. Don’t be surprised to see YOUR content rank VERY highly in the search results real quickly using these free and almost effortlessly effective ways of collecting content. I love them both and am betting you will too.