How To Choose the Perfect Topic for a Blog

16 Apr, 2007 | Written by John | under Blog Basics

Are you looking to start a blog but finding it hard deciding on a topic ?

At first it may seem such an easy question for you to answer, but choosing your blogs topic needs to go through a simple research and thought process which i include for you below to validate it's potential future success. Skip this process at your peril as it's vitally important…

Ok here's what you need to do…

Go get yourself a pen and piece of blank paper and go into a quite part of your house or workplace where your not going to be disturbed for a while and write down the answers to the following questions. Really think about each question before writing anything down and if needed travel back in time to your childhood where a lot of your answers are hiding…

1. What kind of things did you collect when you were a child ?

2. What kind of things do you collect now ?

3. What kind of things did you love doing when you were a child ?

4. What kind of sports activity did you love playing when you were a child ?

5. What kind of sports activity do you love playing now ?

6. What kind of movies do you like watching ?

7. What are your current hobbies ?

8. What is your first choice hobby at weekends ?

9. What musical instrument do you know how to play ?

10. What do you like doing when you go on holiday (vacation) ?

11. How did you make extra money when you were a child ?

12. How do you make extra money now ? (sell on ebay ?) ?

13. What are you really passionate about ?

14. What do you love to talk about to other people ?

15. What would you be doing right now if you had your dream life ? Where would you be ? What would you be doing ?

You can print out all the above questions with a space underneath each one ready for your answers by clicking the "Choose Blog Topic" link below…
Choose Blog Topic

After you have finished answering the above questions you should now have a good list of potential topics that you could write about on a daily or weekly basis. By choosing your potential blog topics this way guarantees that whichever one you choose in the final step is going to be a topic that you are passionate about and which you already have knowledge of…

The final step in the process of helping you to choose a blog topic is to find out how much of an audience you are going to be writing for and also find out whether the topic that you choose is potentially profitable for you…

For this final step simply take each of your answers and boil each one down to a single word. For instance if for question 8 your answer was "My first choice hobby at weekends is playing golf" then the single word you would choose is "golf" Continue doing this for all 15 questions so that you have 15 single word answers to work with at the end…

To find out which particular topic has a large audience and is potentially profitable you need to click the following link and go on over to James Brausch's great blog and run your 15 topics through James's “Five Minute Marketing Research Process”

Then simply choose your favourite from the top 3 answers and your done. You now have a blog topic that you are passionate about and also have a topic that you like to write about and which has the potential to be profitable in the future once you have your blog well established…