I pull my blog topics straight out of my comments
The play
Extract blog topics directly from customer comments, emails, and group posts where real problems are stated in natural language.
How it works
- Monitor comments, emails, and group posts for customer pain points
- Identify sentences where customers describe problems they cannot solve
- Use those sentences as blog topics, preserving natural language
- Write blog posts targeting the exact phrasing customers use
- Good for
- Bloggers struggling with topic selection and content relevance
Try this first
Collect unfiltered customer statements about problems from comments, emails, and groups
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I pull my blog topics straight out of my commentsIf you are blogging and picking the topic is the part that stalls you, this is what I do. I hope it helps.
Somebody has already written it for me. OR - It is sitting in a comment, an email reply, or a post in a group where a woman is saying out loud what she cannot get to work.
When she tells me she cannot get her posts found, or that nobody opens her emails, or that she has no idea which affiliate program to pick, **that sentence is the topic.** It is also close to word for word what she would type into Google, because she is the same person in both places.
Keyword tools hand you the tidy version. They smooth her sentence into something that sounds like marketing, and then you write for the smoothed version and wonder why it does not land.
I still use the tools for information. They c
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