When you are done publishing your first article, take your time in publishing more articles. Articles that is on the same niche website should correlate with each other. This way, readers can easily navigate through the menu of niche-specific web pages that you created. Let’s say you’re making a knitting website and you want to reach out to other knitters in the web. You can do that by writing articles about knitting, like these:
- Knit & Purl: The 2 Basic Knitting Stitches
- Knitting: How to Cast On
- Knitting: Binding Off
- Knitting Stitch to Learn: Stockinette
- First Stitch to Learn: Garter Stitch
- Continental or English: Which Knitting Method is Right for You?
The articles above that are all about knitting can independently stand on their own, but together, they also work interdependently to fully explain the basics of knitting. Now you have six articles pertaining to a single topic, and that’s very good progress. There are many things you can do with a pack of niche-specific articles that correlate to each other.
Let’s think of a pack of articles as the building blocks for everything you create and sell on your website. Again, we will be using the knitting article as our example. If you have gathered enough articles about knitting, you can continue in making some of these:
- An instructional video that you publish on YouTube, Vimeo etc. A five-day Beginner Knitting Email Series
- A short e-book on Knitting Basics, you can sell or give away
- A set of five short instructional videos covering each article topic individually
- A chapter of an eBook that is more comprehensive on knitting, that might also look into factors of knitting such as needle sizes, determining your gauge, types of yam, and a few patterns for beginner knitting projects
- A series of short social media blips or tweets, that entice readers to click a link and read said articles on your site.
- The first chapter of the knitting how-to book that you plan to write
You can build your status in any field of expertise by simply writing articles and using them in all of your projects. These can help you in teaching people by way of your website or your blog.
Or, you can do what I do…
Write a long piece. Decide how to break it down into digestible segments.
Post them over the course of 2,3,4,5, or 10 days on your blog.
Then, you (could) offer the whole package as an eBook (for free or cost) to your subscribers- and potential clients/customers.
But, that’s just how I roll, Paul.
I like the way you roll, Roy! Rolling Roy! Has a nice ring to it!
What a great way to write, sorta like chapters of a book! I may have to try this with my sewing steps.
I am interested in seeing how that turns out for you, Martha!
Spot on. Focus, cluster of time, and get ‘er done. This is a great outline on how to get some good writing done.
In reality, it’s all about priorities. Nice job.
Thanks, Kathleen! Priorities are key! And having 10 Top Priorities is not really prioritizing…
This is a great idea, if you have a product to sell, this will help for inbound marketing.
Absolutely, Dee! Do you do this?
Thanks Paul
I will have to use some of those ideas to work my way up to posting twice a day. The video idea will take me half a day just to get the video together and uploaded.
I have spend some time today trying to get some follow me button to work on my wordpress blog. When I enable the widget, the sidebar goes blank.
Just another rabbit hole.
Blog on!
No one is saying you HAVE to post this much 🙂 Figure out what works for you, Doug, and go with it!