Writing Content from Passion

Write content from passion and you will always have content to write. This advice circulates through all of the top writing sites and experts. Writing about the things that mean something to you personally helps to keep the creative juices flowing. Readers will be excited by the things that you are excited about writing.

The advice comes from a sound place, but the problem for many writers occurs in discovering that passion in the first place. Finding that thing that ignites your enthusiasm can seem impossible, even on good days. Discovering your passion can be as simple as following a few steps. Finding that passion will help to lead you to an almost limitless supply of content.

7 Tips for Discovering your Writing Passion

1. Make a list of all the things that you enjoy and that you are good at doing. Include gifts, talents, education, experience and hobbies.

2. Seek the wisdom of the people you trust. So many times you can get caught up in what you ARE doing, never see the potential for what you could be doing. Let others show you what they see in your potential.
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Five 2010 Content Trends

Welcome to the New Year!

It’s an exciting time of the year filled with resolutions, goal setting, planning, predictions and trends.

Speaking of trends, what about content trends for 2010?  How do you think content will change over the next year?

1.  Social Marketing – We’ve certainly seen the rise of several trends over the past couple of years and one that’s sure to continue growing is the trend toward more social interaction online including social marketing.  Tweets, Facebook posts and pages and even profile building are all content tactics to consider when planning your content strategy for the upcoming year.

2.  Mobile Content -  Several notable websites including Mashable and Entrepreneur both reference mobile content as a growing trend though the success you see from mobile content and mobile marketing will depend largely on your niche and your audience.  (A younger audience is more likely to spend time and search on their phones than an older audience.)

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