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		<title>Generating Content 101 &#8211; Just Start Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yazmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you like me? Do you find yourself getting stuck with what to write on your blog. Aren&#8217;t there plenty of people out there already doing the same thing &#8211; writing the same information? Maybe even doing it better than you? Yes, there are. However, there will always be someone better than you, smarter, wittier. ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you like me? Do you find yourself getting stuck with what to write on your blog. Aren&#8217;t there plenty of people out there already doing the same thing &#8211; writing the same information? Maybe even doing it better than you?</p>
<p>Yes, there are.</p>
<p>However, there will always be someone better than you, smarter, wittier. The percentage is so low, it&#8217;s safe to say no one is ever the top dog. Yet, you can still help your customers and clients grow with the information you do know, crafted and molded just for them.</p>
<p>And there are reasons people will continue to come back to your blog to read what you have to say. Maybe it&#8217;s the way your write, or how you write it. Your funny or direct point of view. Or simply, you might just break it down for them in a way they can understand&#8230; in a way no other person has been able to do for them.</p>
<p>But you can&#8217;t discover what that is until you start writing.</p>
<p>Brainstorm and jot down your ideas for blog posts. Write those things you know a bit about. Once you start putting them on paper, you will have a better idea for blog posts. There&#8217;s plenty of content fodder in our minds. Our ideas are fleeting and sometimes we just need a reminder of what that good idea was.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=yazminmedia-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=moleskine%20notebook&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;sprefix=moleskin%20no%2Caps%2C184"><img class="aligncenter" title="Moleskine Notebooks" src="http://yazminmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/moleskinenotebook-500x333.jpg" alt="Moleskine Notebooks" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>Need a place to keep your blog post ideas? Pick up a notebook or open up a free <a title="Evernote" href="http://evernote.com/evernote/" target="_blank">Evernote</a> account.</p>
<p>Just. Start. Writing!</p>
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		<title>Finding New Blog Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yazmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the services I've recently started providing is what I like to call "<a href="http://yazminmedia.com/services/" title="YazminMedia - Services We Provide - Web Design, E-Commerce &#38; Database Development, Blog Management, Content Management Systems, Search Engine Optimization" target="_top">Blog Management</a>". Basically, you send me your original content in whatever format you have it saved - be that a Word document, a PDF file, an Excel spreadsheet, the restaurant napkin, whatever...</p>
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<p>One of the services I&#8217;ve recently started providing is what I like to call &#8220;<a title="YazminMedia - Services We Provide - Web Design, E-Commerce &amp; Database Development, Blog Management, Content Management Systems, Search Engine Optimization" href="http://yazminmedia.com/services/" target="_top">Blog Management</a>&#8220;. Basically, you send me your original content in whatever format you have it saved &#8211; be that a Word document, a PDF file, an Excel spreadsheet, the restaurant napkin, whatever. I then scour through it for editing and split it up into blog posts that I leave scheduled on your blog according to your posting schedule.</p>
<p>With that service, I also keep an eye out on what is going on with your company on the Internet to supplement your content with other information related to you or your business. This works well for many companies, especially small business owners who are wearing more than one hat, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Since I provide this service of reading through documents and creating blog posts from my client&#8217;s content, you would think that when it comes time to blog on my own web sites, it would be a piece of cake. Let me tell you&#8230;that is far from the case.</p>
<p>After hemming and hawing regarding content, I usually end up not writing a thing. (Hence my lack of blog posts, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.)</p>
<p>But have no fear! I ran across this excellent blog post for those of us having trouble coming up with new content. You can check it out here: <a title="Creating New Blog Content - A Simple Guide by Spyre Studios" href="http://spyrestudios.com/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-new-blog-content/" target="_blank">Creating New Blog Content &#8211; A Simple Guide</a>. An excellent way to approach content for your blog or web site for those times you are just stuck on writing your next words.</p>
<p>Or do you have other ways you break your blogging stop log? Share them with me in the comments&#8230;I need all the help I can get!<!--:--></p>
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