Blogs act as the hub of your social media setup. You can provide long posts on varied topics, enable comments, set up email mailing lists – all sorts of features. It’s important to continually provide new content. We can write posts for you.
The social media packages that include blog posts base posts on 300-600 words. Longer posts typically involve research and longer writing time. Depending on additional word count, pricing varies.
There are also different types of blog posts, which are listed below. We can write each type, except controversial posts.
Tips and Information
List of items with explanatory information. It’s been shown that posts that start with numbers have better exposure. So these are always good types of posts to include.
Examples
7 Ways to Keep Up With Trends
5 Reasons to Write Procedures in Twitter
Lists
These are basically just lists of links. They don’t take long to create, but may require research.
Examples
My Top 10 Posts for 2010 (258 words)
Lists Requiring Extra Research
Twitter Hashtags: Which Ones to Use and When (494 words)
Twitter Chats: Category List
Topic
These are your longer posts, the types on which we we spend time researching. They may often include screenshots or other accompanying graphics.
Examples
How to Use Twitter Analytics Apps to Manage Your Feed (1950 words)
Twitter Chats 101 (1458 words)
Series
Periodically, it’s a good idea to write a series of posts. This enables you to present much information to your readers in smaller, bite-size chunks. Obviously, it also helps drive traffic to your site and potentially increase page views, as you link to the other posts in the series.
Examples
Five Reasons to Write Procedures in Twitter
My First Procedure Written in Twitter
Lessons Learned: Procedure Written in Twitter
Real-time: It’s Soooooo Last Second
Controversial
It’s also common to write controversial posts to generate many comments. We don’t write those.
Editorial Calendar
This is an important aspect of managing your blog. It’s critical to keep writing posts to keep your blog current. It helps immensely to have a content plan and schedule to keep you on track. That’s where your editorial calendar comes in. You can determine your topics ahead of time and coordinate with other aspects of your business.
Have a marketing rollout planned, for instance? We can help with planning for coordinating your blog, Facebook, & Twitter updates. Get ready!
If you’re interested, here’s a WordPress plugin to consider for your blog: WordPress Editorial Calendar Plugin.
Let’s Get to Work!
We’re experienced, long-term, professional writers and can develop the content you need to keep your blog current. Contact us and let’s see what we can do for you.
