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ContentRobot has always said that business blogs are easy to start, but hard to keep going for the long haul. Mostly, biz bloggers get writer’s block, feel like they’ve said all they need to say, or just run out of ideas.

SEO Optimize recently posted 50 Blog Post Ideas for Business Blogging, and this handy list will help you find inspiration for that next story.

We especially liked these 10 angles:

1. Envision the future of your industry by extrapolating the current developments How does the current economic crisis effect your industry? What does it mean for your customers, partners, clients? Then expound.

5. [...]

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With the warmer weather hitting the Northern Hemisphere, our thoughts may be turning to playtime rather than blogging.  So, how do you keep that blog stoked?

Blogging can sometimes be as easy as sitting down at the keyboard and start typing and a post appears, but sometimes it’s not so easy. It’s a matter of working on your mindset (as well as your writing skills). Here are some things that can help you, think like a blogger:

Think about :

• How many posts you want to write per day / per week
• What the topics you want to focus on, [...]

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In our last few posts we have gone back to basics, as our clients have been clamoring for better approaches to blogging. Today, ContentRobot offers some inspiration for generating ideas for your stories in hopes to create conversation and that all-important buzz.

1. State Your Beliefs What do you believe in? By telling these types of stories, you can connect emotionally to your readers. Help them to see into your (or your company’s) soul, they’ll know what you are thinking and why.

2. Be a Newsbreaker Let your readers know about what’s happening at your company or in your industry first. By having the [...]

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Lately, our clients have been asking us what makes up a good blog post and how can they get some inspiration for creating interesting and relevant content.

What is Good Content?

What is going on in your industry right now? Look for interviews given by leaders, tips, opinion pieces, research, news, and posts from bloggers. Who are the main players in your field? What are their positions for popular issues? What context can you provide?

These all can spur ideas for your posts. While you might not be “scooping” big news, you should concentrate on generating thought leadership by stating your own [...]

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Did you create a document today? ContentRobot bets you wrote it using Microsoft Word.

This easy-to-use, ubiquitous software, allows business people to compose their thoughts and produce fairly decent looking documents, complete with formatting (think bullets and bolding) and pretty pictures.

It’s so simple to cut and paste your document into your blog software, but its a disaster to author blog posts using Word. Why?

Microsoft copies all of its formatting to the blog’s WYSIWYG editor. And while it might look OK in the authoring window, it creates messy HTML and ugly posts.

If you are curious, you can click to view the HTML [...]

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