5 Creative Ways to Brainstorm Blog Posts That Convert

Everybody who writes a business blog wants their blog posts to “convert.”

In other words, they want their readers to become customers.

But almost nobody brainstorms blog posts from that point of view.  Which is kind of bonkers, in my opinion.

In my experience, most small business bloggers are thinking about what they can write about instead of what they can write about that will convince their readers to become customers.

That’s actually a really big distinction.

Some readers become customers by accident… but do you want to rely on that?

It’s true: some people reading your blog …

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Editorial Calendar vs. A Blogging Schedule

Having an editorial calendar for my blog(s) has changed my life.

It used to be that I blogged as the inspiration struck.  Lots of people do this, and on the surface of it, there’s nothing wrong with that. I had a schedule I tried to stick to, posting every Monday and Wednesday, or whatever, and at first, that worked just fine. Then, there was one day that I forgot (read: procrastinated) to write my blog post until the night before, so I was up late pounding something out. And maybe it …

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