PB047: Writing Challenge: Write a ‘How I Do It’ Blog Post

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Write a 'How I Do It' Blog Post to Grow Your Readership Today's episode is all about how to write a very simple but extremely powerful style of blog post - the 'How I Do It' post. Smart woman researching info by Ryan Jorgensen on 500px In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: Why 'How I Did It' blog posts are more powerful than other posts The powerful difference between 'How I Did It' and 'How I DO It' posts Real life examples of successful 'How I Did It' and 'How I Do It' blog posts - from my own blogs and others How to come up with ideas and write your own 'How I Do It' blog post to grow your readership Further Reading and Resources for How to Write a 'How I Do It' Blog Post to Grow Your Readership Tips about writing different types of posts (these are previous podcast episodes): Write and Publish a List Post Writing Challenge: Create a Link Post for Your Blog How to Write an Opinion Post to Draw People in to Your Blog How to Write a Post That Contains a Call to Action How to Write a Review Post Examples of 'How I Do It' blog posts: The post I mention that Vanessa (my wife) wrote about travelling to Bali with Young Kids $72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned How to Build an Efficient Social Media Workflow to Increase your Traffic Vanessa’s ‘How to Style Your Bed’ blog post  A Powerful Exercise inside Google Analytics to Set You Up for a Successful Year of Blogging Step By Step How to Do a Head Shot on a White Background  More examples of 'Step By Step' (How I Do It) blog posts on the Digital Photography School Blog Nicole Avery regularly shares 'How I Do It' posts on her blog, including her family morning routine, her kids homework boxes and how she preps food for her 5 kids’ lunch boxes each week. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there. This is Darren from ProBlogger and welcome to episode 47 of the ProBlogger Podcast. Today, I want to give you a writing challenge. It's been a while since we've done one of these and they're always popular. Today, we're going to talk about creating a how I do it post. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/47. It has been a while since we've done a writing challenge. In fact, the last time we did it was in episode 28, which was day 28 of the 31-day challenge that I ran at the start of the podcast series. We've actually done five of these in the past. If you want to go back and listen to some of the previous podcasts, you can go back to episode 2 where we talked about writing list posts, episode 7 where we talked about writing link posts, episode 19 where we talked about writing opinion posts, episode 23 where we talked about writing a call to action post, and then in episode 28 where we talked about writing review posts. I will put links back to all of those episodes in today's show notes. The thing I love about these particular episodes is that a whole heap of ProBlogger readers went away and did the challenge. They created a post on a particular type of post. We had a whole heap of people sharing their list posts and their link posts in the comments on those show notes. That's what I want you to do today. Today is not a theoretical podcast, it's a challenge. Are you up for that challenge or not? If not, you might want to stop listening, but if you're up for a challenge and you want to write a post today and then come back and share that post with us, then here's what I want you to do. Write a post that is a “how I do it” or “how I did it” post. There are two variations really today. This is a very simple style of post,