PB081: 14 Types of Stories You Can Tell On Your Blog

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. 14 Different Stories You Can Tell to Get People Reading Your Blog Today's episode is about how to work out what to write about when you feel like you have nothing left to say. It's part two on this topic, so you might like to listen back to episode 80 first. I share 14 different types of stories you can use to get people excited about reading your blog, and resources and reading you can refer to into the future when you get stuck. 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: How to tell a personal discovery story How to tell an illustrative or analogous story How to share a success story How to share a story about failure How to tell someone else's story How to tell 'How I did it' stories How to tell a biography story - a story about someone else How to tell your autobiography - tell your own story from start to finish How to use images or video to tell a story How to tell a story using a case study How to tell a fictitious story How to share reader stories How to tell collective stories How to tell 'Imagine if...' stories Further Reading and Resources for 14 Different Stories You Can Tell to Get People Reading Your Blog Podcast Episode 80: What to Write When You Feel Like You’ve Got Nothing Left to Say Podcast Episode 38: The Biggest Lesson I Learned About Building a Profitable Blog in 2015 Podcast Episode 67: Why You Should Create a Product to Sell On Your Blog (and Tips on How to Do It) How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World How NOT to Send an Email: A Day We’d Rather Forget But a Story We Need to Tell Content Week Case Study: Carly Heitlinger of The College Prepster How A Simple Blog Led To Writing For Forbes, Mashable, and TechCrunch (and 7 Tips to Help You Do it Too!) Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts 12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year ‘Overnight’ Success] How to Craft a Blog Post – 10 Crucial Points to Pause Why Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog The Science of Storytelling: 6 Ways to Write More Persuasive Stories The 5 Things Every (Great) Marketing Story Needs Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there. My name is Darren Rowse and welcome to episode 81 of the ProBlogger Podcast. Today, we're going to continue on from my last podcast where I encourage you to tell your story as a way of coming up with something unique to say on your blog. That being a struggle that a lot of bloggers have is that everyone's already said it, while no one's already said your story. You can actually listen to that last podcast episode in episode 80. But today, I want to give you some different types of stories that you might want to tell on your blog. Some of these are stories that you could tell about your own story, but some of them are also other types of stories. I'm going to give you 14 of them. You can find today's show notes where I'm going to give you a whole heap of examples of these types of stories. You may actually want to open up this link so that you can pause the podcast as we go along and check out the examples. You can find the show notes at problogger.com/podcast/81 where I'll give you those examples and you can also share your own examples in the comments. Let's get into today's episode. Let's get into the 14 types of stories that you can tell. The first one is the personal discovery story. This is where you tell the story of you discovering something for the first time, a lesson that you've learned if you like. These stories are really great because they do allow your readers to see that you ar...