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Where Did You Get Ideas?

Bloggers, where did they get those ideas to write? I don’t know about others (I am curious to know how you got yours).

I got ideas from various sources. Here’s my checklist:

Google Alerts

They feed me with a lot of information about internet marketing, make money online and with anything, you just name it. Depends on what terms you decide to be alert with. More or less, Google Alerts gives me a rough idea about what to write for that particular day. Google Alerts also introduced me to other bloggers that are in the same niche as mine. So, it is also helping with networking in a direct way. Visit Google Alerts and be alerted now.

Forums

Wandering around in a couple of webmaster forums gave me a lot of ideas. There are problems that some webmasters are facing, I’ll find those locking-keys and then translated them as a post in my blog. Not just problems, I share a lot of new information I got in those forums as posts in my blog.

Articles

I read a couple of articles each day from article directories. To be honest, I can only sustained at 2nd or 3rd articles. Not more than that, there are too many of them.

Questions From Readers

Yes! keep them coming! :)

Social Bookmarking Sites

This is an infinity-medium of information, a lot of ideas can be compile here. I always be here either looking for materials to read or in need of ideas.

Those are some of my ways to get ideas to write posts for my blog. How did you get yours?

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17 Responses to “Where Did You Get Ideas?”

  1. My ideas comes from YM.
    What are their problems, that becoming my topic for next post.

    Or,

    I just wrote according to my experience…

  2. I think with personal blogs I get my ideas a lot from memes. What’s going on in the Social Media world right now.

    Work wise, I make lists every now and again “What can I blog about”. And I have a huge list stored up and chip away at it from time to time.

    I like google alerts, but I do it in google reader where I do a news/blog search and then get the RSS of that and throw it in my google reader.

  3. Great post man. I’ve seen this form your twits. I usually get ideas from my readers comment and from forums :D

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  4. Magazines such as Wired, Other blogs, email newsletters, as a result of problems I have or problems I find out about…if it is a problems one person has, then there is bound to be another person with the same problem.

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  5. I am trying to contemplate on news mostly, and it is always something going on around the world!
    Some great articles came after researching controversial theories and beliefs, even rumors.

  6. Sometimes, the idea just comes out of nowhere..often inspired by surrounding around us :)

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  7. i get ideas from the posts of other people in my niche. so i try to go wandering from blog to blog when i lack inspiration. :)

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  8. My idea come spontaneous and just like waida..most of it came from our surrounding and simple reverse think.

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  9. its depend on some people. I always get form some blog and something popup in my mind.

  10. great post buddy……… great thing done………thx

  11. thanks for the information i will apply that.

  12. Google alerts is really great, when you want to write some niche blog. I use it really a lot…

  13. You can even write asking your readers to suggest what they want to read. There you go.. you just got another post!

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  14. where? when i read your blog. Hehe :)

  15. I get my ideas from sites that I found from google after my search ;)

  16. I get my ideas from my twitter followers, and also from forums and comments. I haven’t got Google alerts set up yet. Must do that because I am missing so much.

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  17. @Pangeran: Good Pangeran, solve others and share their problems.

    @Tertius: Making a list is a systematically good :)

    @Hussien:     Thanks Hussien! You’ve got a tons of loyal readers! :)

    @Adam: Yeah, forgot about magazines. Another great source of ideas.

    @votetheday: you must be dilligent! I don’t even have the perseverance to do the research :P

    @catzer & @WaidaKmy: that is hard skill to acquire, I admit that I’m not that kind of writers, lucky you have it :)

    @tunepal: yea, I still believe it depends on people.

    @zncustombuilding: no problem! :)

    @kouji:     no problem :)

    @Webkinz: yes, it is a smart tool

    @Ben: that is one nifty idea, but we must be one step ahead by knowing what our readers want without asking. There is a plugin where you can track what your visitors search in your blog. I’ll try to give details in the next post.

    @bantingboy: thanks!

    @Downloadic: another prove that Google owned us!

    @Joel Drapper: yea you should use the alerts. It helps me a lot

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