102 Blog Post Ideas

When was the last time you sat down with paper and pen and wrote? I don’t mean you wrote a grocery list or scribbled a short note. I mean you sat and scribbled pages of notes. If you’re like many people, it has been ages since you put pen to paper.

This week I have taken pen to paper three times.

It has been freeing to use paper and pen. I hear it is a physiological high to sit and write with pen to paper.  Writer’s high instead of runner’s high – I love it! I wrote two presentations with notebook paper being torn out and flown around. I crumpled paper and prayed my favorite pen didn’t run out of ink. It was a truly inspiring experience.

Today I went to my favorite coffee shop and got a dirty soy chai. I took out my purple pen and the notebook my BFF sent me for Christmas as scribbled these 102 blog post ideas:

1. What sets your business apart from the competition
2. How to Select [insert your profession – real estate agent, blogger, mom, etc.]
3. Tips – Share best practices for your business or industry
4. How to Do Something
5. Quotes about Something
6. Quotes from Someone
7. Services My Business Offers
8. How to Start Something
9. How to Finish Something
10. Why I Do Something
11. Answer a Question
12. Opinion of something controversial
13. Opposite of what you do – I might do a post about why you shouldn’t be a blogger or why you need to quit social media.
14. Favorite television show
15. Top Things
16. Top People
17. Top Quotes
18. Top Television Shows
19. Top Industry Leaders
20. Most memorable events of my childhood
21. Weekly blog post of something – I do a weekly dating blog post, for example.
22. Guest blog posts
23. How to decide something
24. How to plan something
25. Ways to do something – ways to volunteer or live green, for ex.
26. Blog post round up – list the best blog posts you’ve read this week
27. Favorite books
28. Favorite cartoons
29. Favorite colors
30. Favorite photos
31. People you admire
32. Events that inspire
33. People that inspire
34. Interview someone interesting
35. Favorite authors
36. Favorite magazines
37. Favorite stores
38. Favorite pairs of shoes
39. Favorite presidents
40. Favorite bloggers (hint hint)
41. Favorite hashtags
42. Favorite tweeps (people on Twitter)
43. Why I Do Something (drink coffee, roller skate, etc.)
44. Ways to be a freelancer
45. Ways to eat cake
46. Ways to drink coffee
47. Types of coffee I have tasted
48. Why I love chocolate
49. Why I love this Celebrity
50. Reasons to love something
51. Reasons to love someone
52. Reasons to dislike someone
53. Reasons to dislike something
54. Reasons to Un-friend
55. Reasons to Unfollow
56. Reasons to Use Something (the light rail, for example)
57. Reasons NOT to use something
58. Commentary on a current event
59. Versus – cat vs. dog for example
60. How to Select
61. Why You Need
62. Product endorsement
63. Product review
64. Difference between two things
65. How to dis-similar things are similar (similarities of men and women for ex.)
66. Event review
67. Event promotion
68. Restaurant review
69. Movie review
70. How to be Something (How to be a Success, How to be an Investment Banker)
71. How to be a Friend
72. Why You Should do Something
73. How to Avoid Something
74. Why Something/Someone Failed
75. Why Something/Someone Succeeded
76. Why You Should NOT do Something
77. Similarities between two people or things
78. Travel or destination (Paris 101, for ex.)
79. What I did on my summer vacation
80. How to Prepare for Something
81. What we can learn from a person
82. What we can learn from an event
83. What we can learn from a place
84. How to Make Something
85. How to Destroy Something
86. Selecting Something (a new car, a name for a puppy, etc.)
87. Chronological
88. Photos only
89. Best of
90. Worst of
91. Persuasive
92. Comical
93. Share an experience
94. Things I think about in the morning
95. The last thing I think of before I go to sleep
96. What I listen to when I work
97. Choosing a new something (puppy, job, spouse, etc.)
98. Why X is better than Y
99. Types of Things
100. Types of people
101. Things that wake me in the middle of the night
102. Things I would do if I didn’t need sleep

I encourage you to try something different. Even if it’s not putting paper to pen. Take the bus. Ride the train. Take a new route to work. I can’t wait to hear what you do to create a new experience!

Share your blog post ideas below. Have you used some of the ones listed? Share a link the blog post. 

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