*
How to Start a Blog – Brainstorming Ideas – Video Tutorial #1
Want to know how to start a blog? I can help!
I’m so excited! I am starting my new video tutorial series on “How to Start a Blog” and it is designed with the total newbie in mind. It will also progress into a “what to do next” type of series.
This “How to Start a Blog” series will include: brainstorming, keyword research, finding a niche, choosing and purchasing a domain, setting up a hosting account, pointing your domain, how to install WordPress, backing up your sites, how to use FTP programs, choosing and installing a theme, widgets and plugins, RSS feeds and mailing lists, and other tools that will help you analyze and run your blog … and probably much more!
If you or someone you know is new to blogging or would like to start a blog please sign up for my RSS feed and follow along with the lessons.
I would be very happy to answer any questions so please ask away … either in the comments section or through my contact page.
Enjoy the first video (I’ll get better at this as I go … I promise! LOL).
Notes and Outline from this lesson:
Today’s Lesson is on Brainstorming
- Write out ALL ideas you have had for a business
- Write out ALL of the things you are interested in (i.e. sports, hobbies, what you do in your spare time, what you like to read about, material possessions you have or want, etc.)
- Write out WHO you are (i.e. woman, divorced, engaged, parent, mom, soon-to-be step mom, Christian, like to help and teach others, tall, etc.)
- Write out what you are experienced in (i.e. list cars on eBay, cell phone business, direct sales, sales, marketing, people, etc.)
- Write out ALL of your causes or passions (i.e. politics, environment, advocacy issues, etc.)
- Write out EVERYTHING that comes to mind
- Nothing is silly to add to the list
- Do NOT try to figure out if you could make a business out of this (that’s another step we will get to … I promise)
- Once you are done, you should start to rearrange your list putting the top 5 – 10 towards the top (they don’t need to be in an exact order) and then try to filter on down as you see fit
That’s it … that’s your homework to get done before moving on to Tutorial #2.
Hope you enjoyed it and please leave me your questions and comments. Your feedback is very valuable to me and I’d love to help you in any way I can. *SmiLes* Suzanne
Update/Edit: I mention that if you already have a blog or a business that you can skip this step. I have since changed my mind. If you have a blog or a business that isn’t as successful as you’d like it to be … one reason might be that you haven’t YET discovered your “niche.” This basic exercise might help you narrow down or become more specialized in what you are already doing. So I think everyone should give this a shot … including me!
Glad you're here! I wrote my first eBook, "Blogging Idol Secrets Revealed," and it's my FREE gift for those who supported me in the Blogging Idol competition (and for my new online friends too LOL).
Go download it and learn how I drove new visitors and grew my RSS subscribers by over 800% ... in 30 days flat! Let me know what you think of the book ok?
Go ahead and write your post as you usually would and when you’re finished be sure you click the “save” button. Then look in the right hand column and find where it says, ”Publish immediately”.
A lot of times we think we’ve got the perfect “niche market” when what we actually have is a product we’re already selling (or would like to sell) … and now we’ve decided it’s a “niche market.” Derek Gehl said it perfectly when he said, “A niche market is a group of people who are searching the Internet for a solution to their problem – and not finding many relevant results.” Most people go on the Internet to find information … not to purchase something … so that’s what we need to give them.
