What to write in your first blog post
How to Write Your First Blog Post - Ideas & Tips
so chances are if you're watching this
video you have already started your blog
and if you haven't I will leave a link
down below to a special tutorial that I
have but once you actually have that
domain and you have your hosting and
you're sitting there I'm hooking up this
baby blog and you don't know what comes
next
you might think okay great now I need
blog posts okay great what blog posts
should I be writing in this video I will
be giving you a very important tip on
exactly what kind of blog posts you
should be writing first on your brand
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of the biggest mistakes I see people
make about the first blog posts that
they publish on their brand-new baby
blog is simply the fact that they forget
that the blog that they're writing is
not actually about them it's about the
readers so a lot of times we will kind
of gravitate towards writing a blog post
about you know why I started this blog
or how I got here or kind of all about
the author themselves and by the time
people land on your blog especially if
you're new I hate to sound mean but they
don't love you yet they don't really
know you they don't know your brand and
the only person who is going to become
an instant dedicated fan is let's be
honest your mother so what you want to
do is you want your very first blog post
to be all about your read
you want to inspire them and guide them
and help them so here's my advice for
you grab a pen and paper you're not
gonna want to miss any of these steps
first things first you're going to want
to write down your niche you never want
to forget what it is you are writing
about and who it is you are targeting
trust me that sounds very simple but
it's very easy to get distracted and to
kind of start to write about other
things that don't totally work in with
our brand or don't totally have you know
everything a hundred thousand percent to
do with our niche so make sure that you
are very clear in defining who it is
you're targeting and what it is you want
to teach the second thing you're going
to want to do is write down three things
that everyone who is in that niche
should know so if you are writing about
knitting and somebody comes to you and
says I don't know anything about
knitting I'm a beginner I don't know how
to make a stitch I don't know what size
knitting needles I should buy there are
different sizes right what should I do
and that's what you're going to want to
write that list for write a list of
three things that every knitter should
know every single person and then you'll
write blog posts about those things
the third thing you're going to want to
do is make sure that every single one of
the three blog posts that you're writing
create a very comfortable and safe
learning environment when you think
about it most bloggers not all of them
but most successful vloggers are less
journalists and more teachers what we're
doing is we're taking a category or
taking a niche that we're really
passionate about and we're creating this
safe learning environment for you to
learn how to master whatever that
category is so if you're writing about
how to knit XYZ or how to do this stitch
or how to knit a scarf you want to make
sure that you use a tone and you use
vocabulary that makes the reader feel
like this is a safe place where they're
not gonna get laughed on you want them
to feel like this is a place they want
to go to because you're enthusiastic
about teaching them and you're never
gonna make them feel like not knowing
all the answers is really just a
shortcoming of theirs so be very clear
and be very defined and
everything's step by step especially if
you're in that sort of niche the fourth
thing that you're going to want to do is
really focus on establishing your
authority and that really just means you
want to show them you know what you're
talking about
so this kind of ties in with step number
three in the sense that you want to be
very clear and you want to give them
very actionable steps so kind of break
things down for them very easily that's
kind of step number three but this step
number four is be very clear and don't
leave anything out so you want to break
things down but you also want to make
sure that you don't make the project
feel so overwhelming that they're not
able to complete it you have one goal
and that is to make readers leave your
site feeling like they have accomplished
something or feeling the inspiration to
accomplish it later at a different time
that's your entire goal as a blogger if
you want to be successful if you want to
grow business you're not going to be
doing it by only taking the best photos
or only having the best social media
strategy it is truly all about how you
make your readers feel so let me give a
quick example here of how you would take
all these different tips and how you
would write your first blog post so
let's pretend that we're in the Knitting
category and our niche is all about
knitting baby stuff because let's be
honest knitting baby stuff is like the
cutest thing on the planet alright so
maybe the first blog post that you would
write about is all about the different
types of yarns there are out there and
then what's really safe or what's gentle
enough for baby skin I don't know
anything about that so I can't really
give examples but I know that there are
different types of yarns and that some
are probably best for babies so if your
niche is all about knitting stuff for
babies and you want to teach somebody
who's desperately trying to create a cue
project for a newborn but doesn't know
the first thing about it you need to
explain to them you know all about the
different types of yarns and what yarns
are going to be best for the baby soft
skin
the second plug post I would probably
write would be something like the five
most basic knitting stitches that you
need to know I would hazard a guess
there's a lot of different stitches out
there I have no idea but I'm assuming
that if you're going to make a hat or if
you're going to make a blanket they're
going to
different stitches that you use for
those two different things so that would
be the second blog post I would probably
write the third blog post I would
probably write would be something about
how to knit a baby burp cloth or how to
knit a small baby blanket or something
like that so obviously those are
projects and projects are hard but I
would hazard a guess that a blanket is
probably a lot easier than baby booties
or a baby dress so that's gonna wrap it
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blogging to win calm I am so excited
that we have opened this for the summer
school is getting out we're gonna be
heading down to the pool this is just an
exciting time for me and I feel like
even if you're gonna be having your kids
at home and they're on summer vacation
now is the best time to focus on you
know beginning to work on that framework
to building that blog for the fall and
Beyond so even though your kids are at
home right now now's the perfect time to
kind of do that homework late at night
or whenever you have just a little bit
of me time 10 or 15 minutes you can
watch a lesson a day or so that by that
way by the time they get to the fall and
they head back to school
you are already mentally prepared and
you already kind of have an idea of what
you really want to work on in the fall
to build your own blogging business so
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Alison Lindstrom I'll see you next time
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