If there is anything we all learned from American Idol, it was Simon and the team saying “Make the song your own”. Sure – we all get ideas from one another, but it’s probably a good idea to make the concepts you read about from others totally your own and not plagiarize.
Providing a practical business or social media application is one of the best ways to create brand new content – especially after you have tested.
So the art of stealing other’s ideas on the web has certainly been going on for quite some time, and now there are even personal attacks going on within the blogging community in response to tweets. Isn’t it amazing how people react and respond to the written word?
Make your words count and blog with purpose, while not getting caught up in the fray of criticism of others. Here are suggestions
1. Offer insight and tips for social media users.
2. Share a piece of knowledge from your industry.
3. Have you made a new software discovery? Let others know how it worked for you.
4. Write about a service you provide and why others need it.
5. Tell others about the benefits or unusual features of the products you sell.
6. Show photos of real people using and enjoying your products.
7. Write about how you solved a difficult customer problem.
Yes, the rule of thumb is to make blog entries novel length and blog a lot, but contrary to the normal rules, life at the Marketing Dock doesn’t seem to work that way and surely we don’t want this reputation:
From the Urban Dictionary Blog Definition 1. “A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life.” And Bloggers= “Modern day hippies”.
Blog #2 “those written by people who are experts on a topic they’re writing about, and their posts can be very useful to other people who are working on similar things. Such blogs are very informative, and have a purpose.
