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Reddit vs Quora: Lead Generation Outlook

January 30, 2018 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

reddit vs quora

This is a guest contribution from Olivia Ryan

If you wish to draw leads to your online business, online traffic should be your number one priority. Most online marketers focus on sources like search engines, well-known websites, and social media channels in order to get their leads. Taking this road is great but have you ever thought about how a Q&A website may influence your leads?

Through the means of a Q&A platform you can easily reach a lot of people, and more importantly, you will be able to engage with your target audience, which happens to be a very specific group. Q&A sites can improve your SEO, help you develop your business brand, and get you a lot of blog traffic.

The writer’s team from Aussiewritings.com made the following differentiation between these two awesome Q&A platforms:

What is Reddit?

Reddit is a platform dedicated to social sharing and entertainment where people can upvote (approve) or downvote (disprove), and comment on different threads. Reddit is alsoa community where people can talk about every subject from advanced topics like science and philosophy to silly topics like cute cats and dogs.

Generating Leads with Reddit

Reddit members expect any advertiser to be extremely transparent and authentic whenever he wishes to promote or sell something on Reddit. Using hard selling tactics is definitely not tolerated, and you will only damage your brand’s reputation if you try doing so.

No matter how fascinating your content is, you can’t use the same approach on Reddit as you would use on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter. If you fail to do that you might even get banned or your site blacklisted, so make sure you learn the basics.

You should know that the engagement takes place in subreddits. Subreddits are groups of people that are passionate about a certain subject.

In order to generate leads with Reddit, you should focus on supporting the subreddits that are relevant to your business instead of promoting or selling to them. You can even create your own subreddit.

Build Your Karma

Building karma is vital if you wish to develop a good reputation over time. The great thing about karma is that it allows you to post threads and links. Imagine posting your own thread and being able to ask over 150k entrepreneurs just about anything. You might even find new customers so make sure your threads are well-thought-out.

Pros of using Reddit:

• It’s easy to sign up for.

• Sub-Reddits are incredibly useful.

• In case you get banned you can create a new account and start over.

• By submitting links you get ranked in search engines.

Cons of using Reddit:

• If you want to submit more than one link you must wait 9 minutes before doing so.

• You won’t be able to post for a while if too many people will downvote your links.

• Extremely long hubs.

What is Quora?

Quora is a great Q&A site where anyone can get their desired answers. Nowadays, Quora is a major Q&A platform, as its monthly visitors exceed 100 million. Quora’s mission is to offer you first-hand knowledge of people that really know what they are talking about like doctors, military personnel, economists and other highly efficient professionals.

Generating Leads with Quora

Using Quora as a leads generator might really turn your business around. With a well-throughout strategy, you may generate thousands of leads per month. More than that, Quora will serve as a means to generate organic views while building a massive online community.

In order to achieve these objectives, you must know exactly how to identify the right questions and answer them in such a way that people will wish to follow you. Your number one priority is to create a massive online community, and Quora is exactly the platform that can assist you in doing so.

Write an Effective Bio

Having an excellent bio on Quora is an extremely important factor that will generate a decent amount of leads. A poorly written bio might be good enough for an amateur writer, but for someone who wishes to grow a business it’s definitely not enough. In order to generate business value from Quora, you must own a well-written bio. If not, the time you invest into answering questions might not generate a single lead.

Focus on Your Niche

Most amateur users ask questions that are related to topics like lifestyle and politics only to get more views and attention. Doing this might make a bit more popular but it will definitely not help you generate more meaningful leads. In order to get your desired results, you should focus on your particular niche. If you don’t, you will only low quality traffic which doesn’t really improve your business performance.

So, remember to search for all your business related keywords and answer only the questions that are related to that. Don’t waste your time on topics that are completely irrelevant to your business!

Develop a Strategy and Stick to it

Usually, most marketers tend to answer questions randomly. This goes on for a while, and then they disappear. In order to generate leads effectively, you must develop a well-thought-out strategy. The strategy should incorporate the type of questions you answer, the style of your answers, and the time needed to answer the questions.

So, after you’ve developed your strategy, simply stick to it. For example, you may bookmark all the relevant questions and answer them every Friday morning.

Pros of using Quora:

• You will meet many like-minded people

• Your answers and comments are appreciated by the community

• You will become a really open-minded person

• You will learn something new every day

• You get to meet famous people

Cons of using Quora:

• Lack of diversity (sometimes)

• Unanswered questions

• Quora might become addictive

In Conclusion

Both Reddit and Quora are great Q&A platforms that can assist you in generating more leads to your website. Investing time in creating massive online communities on both platforms will definitely make a great impact on the development of your brand. So what are you waiting for? Start answering questions!

olivia ryan

Olivia Ryan is a journalist who always tries to see the bright side of things. She likes to inspire people in her writings and to enjoy a mysterious beauty of twilight. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

E82: Achieving Smooth Sailing Business Growth With Lyndsay Phillips

January 29, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Lyndsay Phillips is the CEO and founder of Smooth Sailing Business Growth. She leads a rock star team to support entrepreneurs who are seeking fast paced business growth but finally have come to the realization that they can’t do it alone, do it all, and do it well. She is also the host of the Sailing To Success Podcast and Smooth Sailing Online Support TV.

Quotes To Remember:

“All successful businesses are consistent with their content marketing and branding.”

“You need to foster relationships along the way and nurture them.”

“You have to think about where people start.”

“It is all about moving them to the next stage that you want them to go.”

“Get support.”

“You need other members on your team to meet your goals faster.”

“Sometimes, you just have to take that leap of faith and take action.”

“A system that worked for you a couple of years ago may not work for you today.”

What You’ll Learn:

What are the core building blocks in having a smooth sailing businesses
What are the actions needed to be taken to leverage content marketing
How to utilize sales funnels to increase revenue
How to utilize podcasts to grow business
How to maximize revenue
How to continue to sail smoothly and not getting overwhelmed

Key Links From The Show:

Lyndsay’s Site

Sailing To Success Podcast

Smooth Sailing Online Support TV

Recommended Books:

No BS Ruthless Management of People and Profits by Dan S. Kennedy

It’s Okay To Be Scared – But Never Give Up by Jim Palmer

Support Breakthrough Success On Patreon

Please consider supporting Breakthrough Success on Patreon. I publish five episodes per week which I carefully prepare for, and I choose to not run ads in my podcast to enhance the listener experience.

I offer my patrons various perks, and even a donation as small as $1/mo would make a big difference for growing and maintaining Breakthrough Success.

You can support Breakthrough Success by going here.

E82: Achieving Smooth Sailing Business Growth With Lyndsay Phillips

January 29, 2018 by Marc Guberti 1 Comment

Quotes To Remember:

“All successful businesses are consistent with their content marketing and branding.”

“You need to foster relationships along the way and nurture them.”

“You have to think about where people start.”

“It is all about moving them to the next stage that you want them to go.”

“Get support.”

“You need other members on your team to meet your goals faster.”

“Sometimes, you just have to take that leap of faith and take action.”

“A system that worked for you a couple of years ago may not work for you today.”

What You’ll Learn:

What are the core building blocks in having a smooth sailing businesses
What are the actions needed to be taken to leverage content marketing
How to utilize sales funnels to increase revenue
How to utilize podcasts to grow business
How to maximize revenue
How to continue to sail smoothly and not getting overwhelmed

Key Links From The Show:

Lyndsay’s Site

Sailing To Success Podcast

Smooth Sailing Online Support TV

Recommended Books:

No BS Ruthless Management of People and Profits by Dan S. Kennedy

It’s Okay To Be Scared – But Never Give Up by Jim Palmer

Support Breakthrough Success On Patreon

I offer my patrons various perks, and even a donation as small as $1/mo would make a big difference for growing and maintaining Breakthrough Success.

You can support Breakthrough Success by going here.

How To Skyrocket Your Productivity With The 50-30-20 Rule

January 29, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Productivity isn’t based on how much you get done or by how busy you are. It’s based on where you direct your time to achieve desirable results.

I’ve done a lot of research to enhance my work ethic. The most profound rule I came across was the 80/20 rule which states that 80% of your results come from 20% of your work. Find that 20%, spend more time addressing that workload, and you multiply your results.

The 50-30-20 rule even rivals 80/20 because it tells you where you need to devote your time. I see this new rule having a dramatic impact on my brand.

Let’s discuss what it is and how you can use it to grow your business.

What Is The 50-30-20 Rule?

We do a variety of activities, and without this rule, it’s tempting to label all activities as important. This rule sets a tiered structure that gives you a better idea of which tasks are worth doing. 50% is the top tier, 30% is the mid-tier, and 20% is the lower tier.

Here’s the breakdown of the rule.

50% of your time goes towards long-term goals that will pay off greatly in 3-5 years. Jeff Bezos thrives in this area. While everyone knows Amazon as the behemoth it is today, Amazon struggled to make a profit for many years. That’s because each time Amazon seemed to be on the verge of making a profit, Bezos would invest all of that profit and then some towards ventures with long-term potential.

These investments made Amazon into what it is now, but in the short-term, these investments frustrated Amazon investors because the stock stood still with small changes when Amazon didn’t make a profit.

30% of your time goes towards goals that will have an impact in the next 1-2 years. They’re not as long-term as the other long-term goals, but these goals are far enough into the future that you’ll reap big rewards from getting them done.

Finally, 20% of your time goes towards goals that have a short-term impact on your business. The impact for these activities will usually last 90 days and significantly diminish (or even completely fade) after those 90 days.

How Do I Apply This Rule

Stating a fancy rule with a string of numbers that add up to 100% is one thing. Actually implementing the rule for your business is completely different.

You need to list all of the tasks that you do for your business and categorize them. Most people spend the majority of their time on short-term goals. That’s why they get a string of short-term results that don’t hold significant long-term value.

Chances are you’ll have a big list of tasks that fits within the lower tier. It’s not bad to address this area of your life, but it’s bad to address it at the cost of long-term rewards.

You don’t need more tasks in the upper tier than you need in the lower tier. You just need to commit 50% of your time towards tasks in the upper tier and only 20% of your time in the bottom tier.

You can have one task in the upper tier and give that task 50% of your attention every day.

Solving The Distribution Problem

It’s common for people to have a distribution problem as they identify their 50-30-20. As mentioned before, many people send the majority of their time in the lower tier. That’s why short-term results are their way of life.

You may find a distribution problem as you list the tasks. You may discover that you’re in the lower tier for 4 hours per day. When you first write down these tasks, most of them will seem like dogma…you HAVE to continue doing them.

You have to schedule your social media posts, communicate with your audience, create content, promote your content, and do a bunch of other things.

Actually, you don’t.

You need to either delegate or remove most of your bottom tier related activities from your life. Discover which of these tasks are the most important to you, and take as much of that work off your shoulders as possible.

Yes, hiring employees is an investment, but it’s well worth it since you’ll get more of your time back.

50-30-20 Can Be Morphed

The upper tier is a minimum while the lower tier is a maximum. If you delegate most of your lower tier, you can change your approach to 60-30-10 so you invest more of your time towards long-term rewards.

Just never increase the time you spend pursuing the other tiers.

When you have your structure down (from now on, I’ll assume it’s a 50-30-20 since that’s what most people start with), you need to time yourself. You’re actually doing to apply 50-30-20 down to the minute.

If you work on your business for 5 hours every day, here’s the breakdown for each day:

Commit 2.5 hours towards upper tier activities
Commit 1.5 hours towards mid-tier activities
Commit 1 hour towards lower tier activities

Set a timer for all three of those tasks. If you work on the computer often, use a tool like Toggl to clearly track how much time you spend addressing each tier. This tool lets you break your time investments down to the minute. All you have to do is have it work in the background of everything else you’re doing.

In Conclusion

The 50-30-20 rule allows you to identify all of your tasks and prioritize which ones are the most important for maximum growth.

Your long-term goals will reap the most rewards, but it’s the short-term wins along the way that make the long-term goals possible.

What are your thoughts on the 50-30-20 rule? Do you have any tips for implementing it? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.

How To Become A Successful Part-Time Blogger

January 28, 2018 by Marc Guberti 1 Comment

It’s easier to become a successful blogger if you take the full-time route. However, it is also possible to become a successful part-time blogger.

While I see myself as a full-time entrepreneur, I must acknowledge that I am technically part-time since I’m a college student.

When you’re part-time, you don’t has as much time as a full-time blogger to commit towards your blog. That doesn’t necessarily put you at a disadvantage. This lack of time can actually be your greatest asset.

When you don’t have as much time, you get smarter with the time that you have. Mastering efficiency and effectiveness now will result in massive gains when you go from part-time to full-time.

Here are some tactics that will help you become a successful part-time blogger.

Knowledge Acquisition On The Road

The best way to speed your growth is to learn more about blogging and your niche as a whole. However, if you spend too much time acquiring knowledge, you won’t have enough time to write blog posts.

While I find time to read every day, you’ll also find it very effective to listen to podcasts or audiobooks on your daily commutes. Music will provide you with short-lived motivation (if your lucky enough to hear your favorite some on the radio), but listening to a podcast or audiobook will provide you with knowledge that will speed up your success.

To see the impact of this tactic, let’s say your daily commute is 20 minutes one-way. That means you’re on the road for at least 40 minutes every day. That comes to a total of 14,600 minutes (243 hours and 20 minutes) every year.

Finally, let’s say you listen to your audio content at 1.5 speed instead of the regular speed. I wouldn’t recommend making it too fast because you have to absorb the info as you drive, but 1.5 is doable.

That one decision cuts a 30 minute podcast episode down to 20 minutes. A 6 hour audiobook is now just 4 hours, but you’ll learn the same information.

In 14,600 minutes, you can listen to 730 podcast episodes or listen to 60 audiobooks assuming they all average 6 hours per audiobook. If you can listen to audio content at twice the speed without getting distracted, you’ll reap even more gains.

That’s much better than listening to music that only serves a short-term purpose.

Delegation

As a part-time blogger, there are only so many hats you can wear. Marketing, web design, creation, and writing email copy are some of the many hats we can wear as bloggers. It’s easier for full-time bloggers to put on these hats.

Part-time bloggers thrive in a different setting.

Instead of wearing so many hats, they distribute the hats to others. In other words, part-time bloggers delegate many of their tasks. I delegate a wide variety of tasks, and if I didn’t, my blog wouldn’t be where it is today.

All of my freelancers combined work at least 40 hours per week. That number is going to multiply as 2018 continues to take its course. Guess who would have to do all of that work if the freelancers weren’t here to help.

That’s right, me.

And while it’s doable for the summer and breaks, this just isn’t possible during school. Especially since I’m still doing a lot for my content brand already.

Start delegating the time consuming tasks that you don’t want to do. With your newfound time, do something that generates more revenue for your blog. If you can hire a freelancer whose skill and workload helps you generate more revenue than you’re paying that freelancer, that’s a plus.

I have someone else handling my Amazon Book Ads, and I am making a nice profit even after accounting for my monthly fee and ad spend.

But for now, delegate one task whether the primary focus is saving more time or making more money.

Prioritization & Focus

When you delegate various tasks such as social media growth and scheduling your content, you’ll have more time. This is where priority and focus come in.

The way you use your extra time determines that outputs you get within your lifetime.

You need to focus on the priorities that will result in the most traffic, conversions, and sales. Those are your three greatest allies in the blogging world. Getting more traffic means you can convert more people. If you convert more people, you have more people to sell to.

And more sales means more revenue that you can reinvest, use to delegate more tasks, or put it into your nest egg.

80/20 Marketing VS Creation

People are great at creating valuable content. If successful content brands were solely based on creating valuable content, a lot more of us would be very successful.

But content brands don’t just rely on great content. They also rely on even better marketing. Marketing your content makes the difference between your work getting seen and your work not getting seen.

If your blog post doesn’t get seen, it’s not valuable. Even if you wrote thousands of words and did some epic research, your blog post is not valuable unless people see it.

How can a blog post be of value if no one has read it? The definition of value as a whole is dependent on other people reading the content and getting value from it.

With content marketing being so important, we now return to the 80/20 rule. I’ve mentioned this rule a lot through my writing, and chances are you’ve come across it often. Here’s how the 80/20 rule works in this case.

You need to spend 80% of your time marketing your content and only 20% of your time creating the content.

If you spend more time marketing than creating, you’ll eventually get a big boost in traffic. If you prefer to create content, you can develop systems for marketing your content and delegate the marketing to your freelancers. It’s more than possible, but you still need to follow the 80/20 rule.

If you create content for 10 hours each week, you need to assign at least 40 hours per week to your freelancers responsible for marketing your content.

Find Your Full-Time Sprints

Every part-time blogger needs to find certain gaps of time where they have the full-time blogger status. For me, those moments are during holiday breaks and the summer.

During these gaps in time, I’m sprinting hard.

I’ll plan out the sprint a few days in advance. When you have more time to play with, one of two things will happen:

Since you are a part-time blogger who performed under time restrictions, removing the time restriction will result in a decrease in productivity. Now you have more time to use, but you’re taking your time.

With the fire in your belly to permanently reach full-time blogger status, you use your current full-time sprint to accomplish far more than you would have accomplished as a part-time blogger.

Planning out the sprint ahead and utilizing those extra hours each day will make a big difference in the future. The more you care about the planning process, the more successful your full-time sprint will be.

Focus the majority of your time on revenue generating activities because those are the activities that will elevate you to permanent full-time status.

In Conclusion

Regardless of whether you’re just getting started or have been a blogger for a while, you can become a full-time blogger.

If you are not a full-time blogger yet, you’re not correctly investing your time towards blogging.

The moment you change your approach, you will change your results. Part-time bloggers may have less time, but you can create systems and utilize your time more effectively.

It’s not about how many hours we each have in a given day, but rather, how we’re using each hour.

What are your thoughts about becoming a successful part-time blogger? Do you have any tips for us? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.

10 Tactics To Think Of Epic Content Ideas

January 27, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

When you first start creating content, it’s easy to think of epic content ideas. The world is your oyster, and anything you can think of hasn’t been covered.

As you create more content, the ideas become more limited. Over 1,500 blog posts later, I have to make sure I don’t get too repetitive. I don’t see myself writing a “5 Ways To Get More Twitter Followers” type of article for a very long time, if ever again.

It’s easy to think of epic content ideas. It’s difficult to think of new ideas that you haven’t covered and that your audience wants. I can think of a blog post listing 100 blogging tips, but I already did that.

You can take a topic you’ve discussed before and discuss it in a new piece of content. If you chooses this route, you need to do so with a different flavor than before.

Regardless of your approach, these are 10 tactics you can use to think of epic content ideas.

#1: Read Blog Post Headlines

Blog post headlines allow you to discover what a blog post will discuss before reading it. You knew what you were getting from this blog post the moment you read the headline.

For some blog posts, it’s worth reading the entire thing to grab some key points. Hopefully, this is that type of blog post for you.

However, some blog post headlines serve better as idea igniters. If you run out of ideas, you can read blog post headlines in your niche to spark your mind.

I’ll read as many headlines as I need so I can come up with an epic content idea. However, to save time from this activity in the future, I often jot down 10-15 content ideas so I don’t have to perform this same activity every day.

#2: Read Email Subject Lines

This is a similar practice as reading blog post headlines. The main difference is that you read email subject lines continuously without igniting your mind. How many of us go through our inboxes and think, “Wow, there are so many potential content ideas lurking here”?

When I’m in the inbox, I want to respond to important emails and then get out. However, the inbox magic always seems to keep us in our inboxes a little longer than we anticipated.

Instead of completely wasting this time, have a mind that is open to new content ideas. Sometimes, blog post headlines make their way into your inboxes.

I’m subscribed to Medium, and they send amazing emails based on articles I’ve read in the past. One of the articles I received in my inbox was called 16 Things Your Successful Friends Have Given Up by Tim Denning.

Not only did I read the article, but I now have a content idea for the future. I can expand on this concept and write an article like “10 Things Your Unsuccessful Friends Haven’t Given Up” or “5 Things That Hold People Back From Success.”

Similarly to a blog post headline, an email subject line can give you several content ideas if you reword the subject line.

I wrote this blog post towards the end of 2017, so I had an email in my inbox with the subject line “The number one end-of-year practice that transforms my year.” I now have a few options:

“3 End-of-Year Practices That Work At Anytime Of The Year”

“The #1 Beginning-of-Year Practice That Can Transform Your Year”

“The Only Thing You Need To Accomplish Your Resolutions”

It took me a little less than a minute to write all of those ideas. I can follow-up with them at any time I desire, and I got them from my inbox.

You might find more success in your inbox because many marketers value their email subject lines more than they value their content headlines. The email subject line, similarly to a content headline, makes the difference between massive engagement and zero engagement.

#3: Listen To Podcasts

Unashamed plug to the Breakthrough Success Podcast 🙂

All joking aside, listening to podcasts (or audiobooks, but in this case, podcasts for your breakthrough), will provide you with a fountain of content ideas.

Audio content provides you with several unique opportunities for content consumption that videos and the written word can’t safely provide:

Walking in the grocery store

Walking your dog

Running (note: I briefly tried this, but it ruined my flow so I stopped)

Driving

When you want to rest and don’t want to look at a book or a computer screen

I write notes for each episode I listen to. As I write more notes, more content ideas flow out of me.

The amount of content ideas you’ll get from each episode depends on the type of podcast you listen to. The better the podcast, the more content ideas you’ll get out of the experience.

#4: Watch Videos

This tactic has a similar vibe as listening to podcast episodes. Many see YouTube as an on-demand platform to escape the hustle and bustle of work. Others use YouTube to learn new skills and implement what they learn.

You can watch your way to more knowledge by watching the right YouTube videos. I prefer to watch videos from a training course as I’m less tempted to drift off when watching a training course. All YouTube has to do is suggest one tempting video that’s off-track, and then I can fall into the wormhole of wasted time.

I recommend enrolling into several courses on Udemy. Several of them are free and won’t distract you from learning unlike YouTube (unless you only watch educational YouTube videos without room for entertainment).

#5: Write Down Ideas

One way to think of epic content ideas is…wait for it…write down ideas.

While this may seem like one of those no-brainer and not necessary to mention type of tactics, this one is important.

Just because you think of an epic content idea doesn’t mean you’ll remember it. With tens of thousands of thoughts going through our heads each day, even the greatest of ideas can get lost in the storm.

Writing down your ideas will prevent you from forgetting them. And when you look at those ideas, two things will happen. #1 is another no-brainer but #2 is where the magic happens.

You’ll remember the idea

Your mind will start to ignite more ideas based on the idea you just remembered

All you have to do is change, remove, or add 1-2 words to a content headline to come up with an entirely new idea.

#6: Consume Your Past Content

Similarly to how looking at past ideas will ignite new ideas, consuming your past content will help you come up with new content ideas.

To finish 2017 strong, I decided to listen to every episode I published on the Breakthrough Success Podcast (a little over 60 at the time). I listened to my podcast with iTunes until my podcast made it on Spotify. Then I got hyped and listened to many of the remaining episodes on Spotify.

Among the many tidbits I got from the episodes, one was that “all successful bloggers are full-time bloggers.”

With that one quote, I can think of several ideas:

How To Become A Full-Time Blogger

How To Work Like A Full-Time Blogger

How To Become A Successful Part-Time Blogger

What You Need To Do As A Part-Time Blogger

Note that I’m using headlines that include part-time and full-time. Including two important words within various headlines will give you more options as you think of epic content ideas.

#7: Read Books

Reading books has a similar theme as some of the previously mentioned tactics. Successful content creators often use books to gather new insights and present their findings in their content.

The best way to see planned out research in action is by…reading books. When you read a book, you’ll often see the author mention another book and a valuable insight from that book. This is planned out research, and while it’s presented in other forms of content, books seem to take this amount of research to the next level.

If you prefer audiobooks, then you’ll still get a lot of value from the experience. The important thing is that you read through as many high-value, niche-related books as possible. You’ll learn a lot and come across many content ideas.

#8: Watch Training Courses

This tactic is worth saying, but I won’t go deep into it. The idea is very similar to other tactics discussed. I recommend you use Udemy and SkillShare to find free courses to get the gist. While I prefer Udemy, others prefer SkillShare.

#9: Hire A Freelancer To Gather Ideas

Here’s where things get different. Most of these tactics have focused on you consuming content and headlines to come up with the ideas.

If you find yourself pressed for time, you can hire a team of freelancers to gather ideas for you. They can even do the outlines so you know where to take the content next. That way, you can spend less time thinking about epic content ideas and more time writing epic content.

Better yet, you can spend more time marketing your brand. Many people are great at creating content, but few of these same people are great marketers. Marketing your content allows your brand to get found and aids you on the way to becoming a full-time content creator.

You can hire freelancers to conduct a variety of tasks beyond idea generation. Just because something’s hard or time consuming doesn’t always mean you specifically have to do it.

#10: Create A Survey

Hiring a freelancer to gather ideas is one way to remove this task from your workload. While hiring a freelancer for this task serves its benefits, you can also ask your audience for ideas.

The best way to ask your audience for ideas is through a survey. If enough people in your audience take the survey, you can then make conclusions about what type of content they want more of.

While you’ll get some ideas right out of the gate, this feedback will let you know where to direct your idea igniting mind. If your audience wants Facebook advice, you know that you need to focus on thinking of Facebook ideas instead of thinking of Pinterest ideas.

You can create a survey through Survey Monkey or Google Forms.

In Conclusion

Thinking of epic content ideas is no small feat. The extra time you take to think of an incredible content idea will result in better content. That better content will attract more people to your brand and ensure your existing audience wants more of your content.

What were your thoughts on these tactics for generating more content ideas? Do you have any tactics for us? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.