The response to my post Ten Ways to Crank Out Killer Posts in Ten Minutes or Less was fantastic! I feel some very warm fuzzies towards my readers for being so smart and coming up with even more ways to write attention-grabbing posts in less than ten minutes.
As promised, I’m collecting your great ideas here in a new post with a link back to each one of you!
(Oh, and time spent on this post? Guess…)
From Cathy Stucker:
Post a favorite resource and link to it. “My favorite source for photos/keyword research tool/WP themes or plugins/whatever…â€
Post a photo, with or without comment. A number of bloggers do “Wordless Wednesday†posts with only a photo.
Take a list post you did in the past and expand on one of the list items. Give more how-to and/or link to a tutorial or other resource. For example, what do you use to set up a poll as suggested in item number 6? Tips?
Post the results of the poll you did in suggestion number 6. Include commentary on the poll results, and comments submitted by those who responded to the poll.
From Justin Kownacki
Glossaries: Define a buzzword for your target audience, then back it up with links to practical examples.
From Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach
Take what happened during the day and relate it to your medium. It’s amazing how many parallels I can draw between making money online, say, and my mooses, Twitter Budgies, kids and the rest.
From Carolyn
Requests for clarifications can make great posts. This is especially useful when you don’t fully understand a sentiment or concept you read, say in a book. Sort of an excerpt-based question, part info, part question. But you really have to be wondering. Also, the more controversial, the better.
From Joanne Pauwels
Create a quick post of “famous quotes†on a specific keyword in your niche, then ask readers if they have any favs (for future posts, of course!)
From Alan
Review a product/service/website in your niche that you are already familiar with. Develop a ‘review rubric’ and you can streamline this process.
Create an interview template and send out emails to those you would like to interview. It takes ten minutes to write an introduction and format the post.
Copy/Paste any interesting email exchanges you may have. Hate mail? Question and answer sessions? Philosophical ramblings? [Note from Michael: make sure it's cool with the other people in the email conversation first]
Link drop! If you are a heavy bookmarker, pick 5 of the most interesting sites you have bookmarked in the last week/2weeks/month, and write a few sentences about them.
Photo by Leo Reynolds