When we see something around the web that’s relevant to a post idea we’ve been thinking about, a note gets added to that card. Different folks on our team have different systems, from Evernote to simple text docs, but everything gets dumped into our communal blog-focused Trello board.Īny time we get a post idea, we create a Trello card. We take notes on just about everything we see around the web. If you read something new every day, you’ll never run out of ideas to write about. I’ve written before about how much value I get from reading and learning everything I can about whatever it is we’re working on at the time.īut reading great books and blogs does more than help us run the business it’s also the single greatest source of inspiration for new posts.Īs an example, the idea for our popular post 14 Ways Our Remote Team Stays Sane Working From Home came from an Owner Mag piece I read about staying sane working solo. We use an organized system (and lots of tactics that we’ve refined over time) to generate far more ideas than we have time to write about. It’s no secret that content marketing has been the biggest driver of our growth for the last year.īut honestly, coming up with post ideas has been the easy part for many months now.

If you’re having trouble generating blog ideas, these ten tactics that we use will ensure that you never run out.Įvery so often, I’ll get an email like this:

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