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Today’s episode is all about how to decide on the focus topic for your blog. Having a niche topic for your blog helps you focus but it also helps new readers find you and current readers to understand more easily what you and your blog is about. I share 15 questions that you can ask yourself that will help you work out possible themes for your blog and help you choose a niche to focus on. arrows target by Marco Varrone on 500px.com In This Episode You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today’s episode I show you how answering these questions can help you unlock what the focus topic of your blog should be: What interests do you have? What experiences have you hado you find yourself talking to your friends, colleagues, customers and even strangers about? What are your most frequeToday I want to give you 15 quick questions that will.
help you to define what your blog’s niche or focus should be. What I would encourage you to do is to jot down these questions and I will share them over on the show notes to work through them one by one and just simply answer them with a few keywords for each question. Hopefully, by the time you get to the end of the 15 questions, you will see some themes emerging which might give you some hints as to where to focus your attention in terms of a niche or a topic. So, let us get into them. They are relatively quick. Some of them are pretty obvious and some of them are a little bit different Country Email List Hopefully, we’ll give you some fresh insights. Question number 1 is one of the more obvious ones. What interests do you have? What is it that you find yourself thinking about when you have got the spare time? What magazines do you read? What hobbies do you have? These types of interests, whether they be work-related, life-related, or relational interests, might give you some hints as to what type of blog you might have. Question number 2, what experiences have you had? Experiences (of course) can be work experiences.
They could be your professional experiences. They might be personal experiences, relationships, hobbies, or experiences of travel. Also, think about the good experiences that you’ve had but also some of those tough experiences that you’ve had. What challenges have you overcome? Sometimes, the hardest times in our life are actually the times that are most formative for us. They actually give us insight into life that can be really useful for other people as well. I talked to one blogger recently who had gone through a divorce, and the experience of that really was something that she wanted to talk about in her blog. Her blog is for people going through that particular experience. Don’t just pay attention to the good experiences, the fun, the things that you’ve achieved. Also think about the tough times, the values, the mistakes, and some of those sorts of experiences as well. Question number 3 is what expertise aNicole Avery from Planning Queen (a great blog), Planning with Kids, one of her skill sets is that she is a mom of five kids, that’s an experience that she’s got but she is particularly good at organizing that family and you’d want to be if you’ve got five kids. She’s very productive and that’s an experience that she’s had, but she has also built up some expertise in that.
help you to define what your blog’s niche or focus should be. What I would encourage you to do is to jot down these questions and I will share them over on the show notes to work through them one by one and just simply answer them with a few keywords for each question. Hopefully, by the time you get to the end of the 15 questions, you will see some themes emerging which might give you some hints as to where to focus your attention in terms of a niche or a topic. So, let us get into them. They are relatively quick. Some of them are pretty obvious and some of them are a little bit different Country Email List Hopefully, we’ll give you some fresh insights. Question number 1 is one of the more obvious ones. What interests do you have? What is it that you find yourself thinking about when you have got the spare time? What magazines do you read? What hobbies do you have? These types of interests, whether they be work-related, life-related, or relational interests, might give you some hints as to what type of blog you might have. Question number 2, what experiences have you had? Experiences (of course) can be work experiences.
They could be your professional experiences. They might be personal experiences, relationships, hobbies, or experiences of travel. Also, think about the good experiences that you’ve had but also some of those tough experiences that you’ve had. What challenges have you overcome? Sometimes, the hardest times in our life are actually the times that are most formative for us. They actually give us insight into life that can be really useful for other people as well. I talked to one blogger recently who had gone through a divorce, and the experience of that really was something that she wanted to talk about in her blog. Her blog is for people going through that particular experience. Don’t just pay attention to the good experiences, the fun, the things that you’ve achieved. Also think about the tough times, the values, the mistakes, and some of those sorts of experiences as well. Question number 3 is what expertise aNicole Avery from Planning Queen (a great blog), Planning with Kids, one of her skill sets is that she is a mom of five kids, that’s an experience that she’s got but she is particularly good at organizing that family and you’d want to be if you’ve got five kids. She’s very productive and that’s an experience that she’s had, but she has also built up some expertise in that.