4 Content Creation Tricks That Help Avoid Writer's

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If you are using Social Media to grow your business

then content creation should be a big part of your strategy.

Content marketing is important with Social Media

because it helps you establish yourself as someone people can get

to know, like, and trust.

Soon they will start spreading the word about all your great ideas.

Without content marketing you don't really have a platform to build your

audience with.

The problem we all struggle with is how to keep turning out good

articles for our audience regularly.

Here are 4 tips you can start using today to avoid this problem once

and for all.

1. Create a simple content calendar

The first (and most important) thing you can do is create a simple content calendar for yourself.

It doesn't need to be fancy.

In fact I just have a note called "Content Calendar" in Evernote.

If you don't know what Evernote is go check it out.

It basically just lets you store your notes and ideas.

Then you can find them later.

Very Simple and Easy.

I just love it.

What is a content calendar?

It is just a way for you to plan out in advance what you will be writing

about in the future.

I block some time and sit down to brainstorm on new articles ideas for

1 or 2 months in advance.

I put a date with the article title next to it.

That's it!

In fact this is how I came up for the idea of this very article you are

reading.

I actually had it on my content calendar for over a month now.

Here is what my content calendar looked like for March 2015:

Here is what my content calendar looked like for March 2015:

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I didn't have to sit and think "What do I want to write about this

week?"

no no no.. I already knew it well in advance.

Creating a content calendar is the simplest thing you can do

to avoid getting writer’s block when you sit down to create your next content marketing masterpiece.

2. Choose a Monthly "Theme"

Picking a monthly Theme for your content can make things easier too.

You will find you probably have a lot to say on a particular topic.

You can probably break those ideas into 3 or 4 different articles.

So do that!

Right now my monthly theme is content creation for social media.

I have a lot to say about it (since I actually do it).

You can see an earlier video

where I talk about using tools to keep your social media streams updated with fresh interesting

content for your audience.

My next article will be about repurposing your content to get

more mileage out of it.

All these articles follow the same theme of content creation.

3. Tie Articles Together with teasers

One nice thing about having a content calendar and following

"themes"

is that you can finally start tying articles together.

Since you already know what you will be writing about next week (from your content calendar)

you can add a teaser to this week's article.

It gives your audience a taste of what's to come.

They know what to expect from you in advance.

Plus it will flow a lot more naturally because the articles are following a

consistent theme.

4. Create a Simple System for yourself

Now that you already know what to write about in advance

you shouldn't be suffering from writer's block anymore.

The final step is to just develop a simple content creation system for

yourself.

Mine looks like this:

Monday: Create a rough-draft of your article.

No proofreading. Just get your thoughts on paper.

Start with a basic outline

Tuesday:Proof read it

Wednesday:Final proof read and post to blog.

Add Pictures.

Now you know that every Monday

you need to create a rough draft of the next article on your content

calendar.

You don't need to proof read it.

Just brain dump your ideas.

It just requires a lot less thinking.

You will produce higher quality content.

As a bonus you can work ahead.

Got a vacation coming up?

no problem.

You should already know (from your content calendar)

what you will be writing.

Just double up the work one week and you can take a week off.

Pre-schedule your articles to go out in advance and you are all set.

Hopefully I sold you on using a content calendar, picking a theme,

and creating a simple content system for yourself.

It will make a huge difference in the amount of thinking and stress you

go through

when trying to think up that next killer article

that will get lots of shares and retweets across the social media

landscape.

Stay tuned for my next video

where I show you a sneaky trick for tripling the effectiveness of every

article you write.

You are going to love it.

If you want more tips like this

Head on over to

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where I show you

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