Blogging your business: 10 blogs you can write right now

Business owners, musicians, and even great web content writers have been stumped by the question, “What should I blog about?” While some may chalk their consternation up to classic writer’s block, the truth is that blogging isn’t only about solid writing. Nor is it only concerned about being interesting, informative, entertaining, addressing relevant topics, or promoting your business in a tactful and engaging manner.
No. It’s much worse than that. It’s all those things put together! And that, my friends, is what befuddles the average would-be blogger.

You may have found yourself a passenger in the baffled blogger boat on more than one occasion. You already know it’s generally recommended that you blog once a week. You dutifully set aside an hour or two every Tuesday to pump a few paragraphs out of your cluttered, overworked brain. You sit there, fingers poised in anticipation over the keyboard, glazed eyes staring blankly at an empty white document, and…nothing happens.

“Maybe I’m just not the blogging type,” you shrug. Don’t give up so easily!

Blogging is a fantastic way to connect with prospective clients, keep current customers and fans engaged, build a readership, promote your business, and maintain an online community of people with congruent interests.

Hopefully, the following will boost your inner writer ego and inspire that burgeoning blogger brain. Here, we’ve put together a list of useful tips, tricks, techniques, and ideas that will hopefully have you clacking away like a pro in no time.

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ATTN Young Writers: Get Your Article Published in The Washington Times Communities!

Are you an aspiring writer? Would you like to get published on a professional online journalism column that gets thousands of views per week? Jennifer Grassman, author of the column, The Business of Being Diva at The Washington Times Communities is offering you a fun and easy chance to get your work published and read by people all over the world. This will be a nice little tidbit to put in your resume, and definitely something to share with friends.

Here’s what you do:

  1. Write a review of your favorite CD. Any genre you want, but the more current and the more well known the band/artist, the better your hits will be. Your article should be 600 – 800 words long.
  2. Like The Owl’s Quill on Facebook, and Copy & Paste your article into a Message to us. Remember to include your Name, Email, Phone Number, and Major & School (if applicable).
  3. We WILL read your article carefully. If we think it’s something Jennifer’s readership will enjoy we will edit it and contact you requesting a short 1 paragraph bio and a hi-def photo.

Please be aware, you will be requested to grant Jennifer the non-exclusive right to publish your article online and promote it via Facebook, Twitter, and her various blogs and websites.  Basically what that means is you’ll be saying to her, “I understand that you’re going to publish my article online and I don’t expect payment for it. However, I keep 100% of the copyrights to my work and I will receive 100% credit as the article’s author.”

Good Luck!