@kristi-hines For me it’s not content ideas, but forcing myself to create the time–in start up mode, it seems every day presents a new opportunity and a new challenge.

Finding the time to write. It’s a real problem, since I’m a ghost blogger. I can always find time to write for clients, which means I squeeze out my own blogging to make sure I get everything done.

Content for me is a cinch. The challenge is structuring and pacing for widest effect. I know what my most popular topics are but I have pet topics too. So finding a formula that meets demand and still is interesting to me (in other words, finding balance) is a little tricky.

I’m also on the verge of taking a year’s worth of free content and developing a marketing strategy to monetize it — at last!

Writing for different audiences.  

Wow, finding time to blog is a clear theme here! How do you all deal with this currently? For example, someone told me recently that he found a plugin that enables him to blog more easily from his iPhone. What ways have you guys found to deal with the lack of time? @joanmuschampfagnani @ernohannink @erikdeckers @quirkytravel @redpointhq

@torontocarol  I think Zemanta is very effective for recommending free-use images (and other supplemental media) for your posts.

For me Writing is the biggest challenge, after that converting readers in to the permanent readers. actually i dont have a perfect time to write blog, when i though something some quality post i’ll post actually that’s killing my visitors. now only i manage the whole thing but still have that same challenge. 

Everything about blogging is challenging … writing the copy … editing … posting … fixing HTML when I accidentally deleted something … picking the images … and don’t forget promoting it on social media, responding to comments and maintaining the site. If we really thought through the ROI on blogging, many of us would quit … but then you get a response that inspires you and so you keep it going … exhausing!

The biggest for me is finding the time to get it done, then is content.
Kirsten – great resources, thanks.

@erikdeckers I find that writing for other people takes the edge off of my ability to write for myself. Often the well is nearly dry by the time I get around to writing for me. That’s why I had to prioritize writing for myself above writing for clients. 

My blog was my priority as I was building up my client business. Now that my client business is booming, I barely have time to do anything else. I’ve started setting aside writing days in my schedule so I can’t overlook this time or steal it for client use. 

Just when you start to get a balance and things figured out, your business changes and you have to start all over again. You gotta love this life or it will drive you right off a short pier.

TIME – TIME – TIME

If you can find a way that I can duplicate myself, enhance my staff’s ability to decipher ESP thought zingers, or plug my brain directly into the cloud and spit out instructions to 8 different people, that would work too. 

I enjoy blogging but everything we produce for my site must meet my standards.  This is our bottleneck. I have a passion to transform people’s lives through my blog but I only have so much time outside of my regular business. 

My biggest challenge is writing on a schedule. I always promise that I will write three times a week or two times a week. But I almost never get my posts up on time due to my busy schedule. It’s definitely something I am working on.  

Hi all,

If generating new content ideas, finding out what’s trending for your industry, or finding relevant bloggers for your potential guest posts are ANY of your problems – then try out this awesome free tool – Content Strategy Generator Tool

This free tool allows you to enter your [keywords] to reveal lots of information – such as…

The latest news & discussions about your [keywords]

Google Discussions – What’s the latest [keyword] talk in the forums?

Google News & Bing News – Hot off the press [keyword] news.

Digg – the most dugg content relating to [keyword], there is also an additional column for the most recent dugg content.

Reddit – The top rated reddits relating to [keyword].

Youtube – The most viewed videos relating to [keyword].

Topsy Latest Tweets – the most popular [keyword] related tweets in the last day, including twitter name and number of RTs received.

Topsy Latest Top Trending Tweets – this is then aggregated in the same way as the previous point.

Twittorati Search – the most ‘authoritative’ tweets relating to [keyword] based on the Twitterati authority score.

All Things Now – the most popular content Facebook shares relating to [keyword].

Yahoo Answers – questions relating to [keyword] filtered by questions with the most answers.

Wiki Answers – this is split in to two columns, the latest questions that have been asked relating to [keyword] and the top answered questions.

How Stuff Works – articles answering a problem relating to [keyword].

Blog Catalog – the latest blog posts relating to [keyword].

Fark – the latest and most popular items shared on Fark relating to [keyword].

Redux – discover further video content relating to [keyword].

Helium – The latest [keyword] articles shared on Helium.

It’s fast, effective and already proven really useful for me in generating new ideas and new topics for research articles to inspire fresh, new content. Check it out and let us know here how you like it!

Thanks,

Robin.

PS – if you’re still stuck, then there are tons of inspirational ideas here too.

Rob, I’ve checked out your blog – its great – but I know what you mean about getting active engagement!! Have you considered the commentluv plug-in whereby visitors are rewarded for tweeting/sharing your links and leaving good comments, in exchange they get a back link to their blog. It’s a fast way to gain traction in the early days. At the opposite end of the spectrum, have you ever seen blogs comments on HBR.com ( Harvard Business Review ). They are often 10 times more interesting than the original posts – and they’re pretty good in their own niche way! People argue/debate and try to outdo each other in an academic/consultant type way. Tons of comments on there, sparked by interesting posts. Just some thoughts for you Robin.

My toughest challenge has been that of getting Audience feed back And converting of few visitors to permanent readers. To address these great issues,I have decided to create interesting contents In my business blog,profits base that relates to my industry with the needs Of the customers in mind.

@angiezahner Im new to blogging and finding the correct content has been a challenge for me as well

I think my biggest challege is writing content i’m not an “expert” in as my job is in a new industry.

Time is a big factor in wanting to write my personal blog…and when I do find the time I run into writers block

the joy!

Hi all – I’m a total Newbie to Blogging I’ve two WP pages. I set them up and have all the pages sorted & now to Blog…I’m not sure how to even start or what subjects to talk about. Do I speak about what is of interest to me or do I speak about what may be of interest to others? Do I approach blogging like writing an essay or do I write as if conversing.Also, I’ve had a couple of really interesting emails from other WP users whose blogs I would like to share….but I don’t even know how to do this….lots of guidance needed for this newbie 

I have loads of ideas to write about, they just keep coming!
For not having done any creative writing for about 15 years I worry about how my work reads. No matter how many times I proof read a post there is almost always an error that a friend will pick up on. Where is it a spelling or grammar mistake, I worry about how a mistake will reflect on me as a blogger.
Does any one else have this problem? How long before you got better at it? Have you got any solutions or ways to improve my proof reading skills?

For me it is finding the time to blog. I am the social marketing head at my firm so finding time to write on anyone of my blogs is a challenge. But I think it is really important to continue finding the time. This brings me to my second point. If you are a new blogger, it is very important to continue writing and update your blog on a regular occasion. It may seem that no one is listening or reading what you have to say, but the only way they will is if they see you have been writing for a while. For me it took a while and for a long time my traffic was very low, and then all of a sudden BAM, traffic just started to increase. So if I can say one thing its…..write write write