{"id":3992,"date":"2014-11-05T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2014-12-17T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:40:08","slug":"guest-post-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"How to come up with good ideas for guest posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9818.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"563\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9818.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"563\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever written a\u00a0guest post before?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Just write a guest post,&#8221;<\/em> they say.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s great for growing an email list,&#8221;<\/em> they say.<\/p>\n<p>I have a confession to make.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am 4 months behind on writing guest posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Every time I\u00a0go to write a post, I freeze up. Writer&#8217;s block. Procrastination. Call it whatever you want. But if you&#8217;ve ever TRIED to guest post regularly, you know exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>The last two guest posts I&#8217;ve written have generated over 1,000 new email subscribers to this site, but for some unknown reason it&#8217;s incredibly hard for me to produce them on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"525\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"525\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Writing for my site is easy. But writing for someone else\u00a0is terrifying.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should I write about?<\/li>\n<li>How detailed should the article be?<\/li>\n<li>Can I backlink to my site from the article?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;you know the drill.<\/p>\n<p>Well, recently I stumbled upon an interesting little hack that&#8217;s helped me get back on track and avoid all of these paralyzing questions.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a guest-posting pro or have never written one\u00a0in your life, use this to\u00a0come up with killer ideas for\u00a0your next article.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Next time you go to write a guest post, ask yourself this question:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9377.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"241\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A9377.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"241\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>So, if the person whose site you are writing for were hosting a conference and you were invited to speak to the audience, what would your speech be about?<\/p>\n<p>Asking this question removes writing from the equation and forces you to focus on the audience you are &#8220;speaking&#8221; to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s workshop a quick example.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are a food blogger invited to speak at a marketing conference that Noah Kagan is putting on. Those are two seemingly unrelated industries. Food and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>What would you talk about?<\/p>\n<p>Could you still teach the audience something that would be interesting and relevant? You bet!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few different headlines you could use:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline 1:<\/strong> How to market your business like a restaurant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline 2:<\/strong> How I used incredible pictures to 5x my sales and how you can do the same thing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline 3:<\/strong> I work 80 hours a week. How about you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline 4:\u00a0<\/strong> Why I hate my job and how you can avoid the same trap<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline 5: <\/strong>Time management for restaurants<\/p>\n<p>Combine your industry of expertise with the topics that your audience is there to hear about.<\/p>\n<p>Make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Quit thinking about writing and start thinking about speaking.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A few days ago I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/members.blog.growthtools.com\/mentor\/\" target=\"_blank\">coaching<\/a> call with my friend Tony.<\/p>\n<p>He was struggling with coming up with topics to guest post on, so we spent 45 minutes going over exactly how he could use this method.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the call we covered:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to brainstorm a list of ideas to write about on other people&#8217;s blogs<\/li>\n<li>How to outline your post<\/li>\n<li>How to ensure the post is incredibly good<\/li>\n<li>How to do all of this in less than 30 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve included our entire coaching call as a free download inside the free resource center.<\/p>\n<p>To download it, [content_upgrade id=&#8221;4&#8243;]click here[\/content_upgrade].<br \/>\n[content_upgrade id=&#8221;4&#8243;]<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A97D8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"491\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/Skitch\/blog-graphs_key_1A0A97D8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"491\" \/><\/noscript>[\/content_upgrade]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever written a\u00a0guest post before? &#8220;Just write a guest post,&#8221; they say. &#8220;It&#8217;s great for growing an email&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}