Content Creation Part 12

Coming Up With New Ideas

In our last section we shared with you an overview of a very simple, yet highly effective 5-Step #WordPress Content Writing Action Plan.

Step 1 was to create an ideas folder for your web content. Have you done that? If you haven't yet then do it now. It should only take you a few seconds.

For many people, the "idea" of coming up with new ideas on a regular basis seems easy enough, but the reality of doing it on a consistent basis is a completely different story. The process of getting started and turning something into a regular habit requires taking consistent action. It also helps if you know "why" you should prioritize doing something like publishing content on your site instead of doing something else that may seem more practical in the short term.

We talked about this "why" in earlier sections. If you need a reminder, just go back and read some of the earlier sections we sent you.

The good news, is that adding new ideas to your ideas folder on a regular basis will only feel like a chore until you "activate" the creative part of your brain that knows there are "infinite" topics to write about.

Once you connect that part of your brain with the other part that understands just how much leverage and exposure you could create for your business if you had lots of great content published on your site working for you 24/7 in search engines, social media sites and other web properties, you will discover that your brain simply won't stop coming up with new content ideas.

I promise you that if you just get started and follow the simple steps provided in this training course, you will soon find yourself reaching often for pen and paper, your laptop, your tablet or the memo app in your phone to jot down great post and post title ideas, as well as great concepts for articles, videos, downloadable PDF reports ... even e-Books you could publish on Amazon to get more exposure for your business online and drive non-stop traffic to your website.

Once your brain kicks into gear, it will start spitting out ideas non-stop at you, so you will want to have a place to collect, store and organize these ideas. Your ideas folder doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to be accessible. If you like writing things down with pen and paper, then get a note or memo pad that you carry around with you, an in-tray on your desk, a manila folder inside your desk drawer ... even a shoebox will do to start with.

If you like to store files electronically, then keep things simple. Create a folder in your hard drive and use a plain text application like Notepad to type your ideas into, then save these files with a title that will help you identify what you were writing about.

If you want to organize your ideas into different categories, you can create nested folders in your hard drive, or better still, use a tool like Treepad.

Treepad is a simple, powerful and very easy to use content organizer tool for Windows that lets you store, organize and work with different types of information and content. You can create unlimited subfolders and levels, move things around and more.

To learn more about Treepad, go here: [INSERT-URL-TREEPAD]

However you decide to organize your ideas for content, the important thing is not to procrastinate.

Once you have created your ideas folder, the next step is to begin adding content ideas to it on a regular basis.

IN SUMMARY

Once ideas start flowing you will need a simple system for keeping your ideas organized.

ACTION STEP

Create your "ideas" folder using whatever medium suits you best and then commit 5-10 minutes today to add as many ideas for web content as you can to your ideas folder during this time. You can just start and stop when you've had enough, or set a timer on your phone or computer, or a target (e.g. I will not stop until I have written down 10, 20, 50 or 100 blog post ideas.)

Note: "Thinking" about it doesn't count. Your ideas must be documented either physicallt or electronically. You will see why this is important in the next section.

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