PB093: How to Create Blog Posts that People Remember

Do you want to create content that lives on in th ememories of those who read it? If so - this episode is just for you. This episode is brought to you by the ProBlogger Training Event. Sign up to be notified when tickets go on sale here. Tickets go on sale 27 April 2016. Create Content that Makes a BIG Impression on Your Readers I get to meet a lot of ProBlogger readers at conferences and often when I meet one who has been reading for a while I ask them if there's a blog post or podcast that we've published that stands out in their memory. It struck me recently that a number of blog posts get mentioned more than others and it got me wondering why? In This Episode In this new episode (which you can listen to above or on iTunes or Stitcher) I share 7 types of blog posts that seem to create memories in your blog readers. We talk about: Story Posts: The Number 1 Reasons My Blogging Grew into a Business Playful Posts: 5 Things You Should Know about My Dad the ProBlogger Emotive Posts: Dear Youtube: You Broke My Heart, An Open Letter to Amazon Associates Program and My Open Letter to AdSense Inspirational Posts: 12 Blogging Income Streams and How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World Opinion Posts: (see examples above) Personal Posts: Tips on Getting the Family Blogging Balance Right and A Story I told About My Own Health Journey (podcast) Vulnerable Posts: How NOT to send an Email: A Day We'd Rather Forget But a Story We Need to Tell. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view I've put the examples of the posts that I mentioned as examples in the podcasts above but would love to see examples of such posts that you've written in comments below. Good day and welcome to episode 93 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind ProBlogger. Today’s podcast, I want to talk about how to create content that lives on in the memories of your readers. It’s a special topic content because it helps to build your brand and it helps to build a personal connection with your audience. Today’s show notes are at problogger.com/podcast/93. I can’t believe we’re at 93 already, almost at a 100.  Today’s podcast is actually brought to you by the ProBlogger event. It’s my own event. We’ve been running it now for, I think this is now our seventh year. Those of you in Australia, many of you have been along to that event. Last year we had 750 bloggers and speakers. We did have quite a few people fly in from around the world, some of our speakers but also a few attendees. So if you are overseas, we do welcome you at this event, and we hope to try and arrange some sort of a virtual pass for you this year if you can’t make it live. But if you are in Australia or if you’re willing to come—it’s a great place to come—the event is on the 9th–10th of September this year. Tickets are going on sale on my birthday, 27th of April, so just a few weeks away now. You can subscribe to get updates about our speakers which we’ll be starting to announce over the next week or so, and our schedule. You can get those tickets over at probloggerevents.com. We’ll link to that in the show notes. There’s also a Facebook group if you want to do a search on Facebook for attendees of that event. So we do limit that just to Australians or people willing to come out to the event in Australia. It’s purely for an event kind of discussion, so it’s not a general work for everyone. Okay, let’s get into today’s show. Speaking of events and conferences, I do get to go to quite a few of them. I’ve got one coming up next week, actually, in Sydney. One of the things I love about going to events to speak is I get to meet ProBlogger readers, and that’s a great opportunity, (1) because you get to learn who’s reading your blog and that enables you to serve them bett...