Need a Little Inspiration?
Generating a consistent stream of interesting and insightful content online can be a grind. I’ve been feeling a little tapped out lately. The monotony of COVID restrictions, waiting for spring to arrive for good, and other factors are contributing to a sense of stagnation.
I went looking for a little inspiration to reignite my work in Q2. Here are some great places I found.
Be a Blog Reader
Subscribe to a variety of blogs related to your field and your target audience. Look to them for ideas that you can use for your next post. Sometimes you will find the same topic covered in different ways, giving you some good depth to draw from.
Be sure to look at the comments as well as the posts. There are often great gems in the comments that let you know what’s top of mind for your target audience.
Follow Aggregators
News aggregators pull blog feeds and newsletters together to provide a rich source of ideas around a specific topic. Just reading through the headlines can give you inspiration. Reading the posts can help with research around a specific topic.
Listen to Podcasts
Podcasts are really taking off. You can find them on every topic, even ones you never knew existed! Give some a listen. Sometimes just looking at titles and descriptions is enough to spark some new ideas.
Learn from Questions and Answers on Quora
The Q&A website Quora is a forum for just about everything. The questions and answers there will give you ideas.
Put that Email to Work
We mostly talk about the overload of email, but looking at all those messages as a place to mine for ideas makes the deluge seem a little more palatable. Subscribe to interesting newsletters. Click-through at least a few items every day.
Content Ideas Offline
There are plenty of offline ways to get some fresh ideas, too. A friend finds them walking in nature. Another gets energized with a little retail therapy. There’s inspiration all around if you open yourself up to the opportunities.
Go, and be inspired!
