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200 Blog Post Ideas for your Company Blog!

Saturday, October 18, 2008 by Douglas Karr
Our client success managers do a fantastic job coaching our clients to successful business blogging with our platform.  One common question for our sales and client staff is, "Where do we get the content?".

Content is all around you for your business blog.  In an age where so many of us work in front of a laptop all day, we're creating or reading content all day!  Learn to discipline yourself to have the next blog post in the back of your mind as you work throughout the day.  You'll find the content, and if you don't -

Here are 200 ideas to inspire your next Corporate Blogging post:
  1. What is your company?
  2. How large is your company?
  3. What are you selling?
  4. How are your products or services priced?
  5. What is your ideal client?
  6. How do people contact you?
  7. What are you giving away?
  8. How is the economy impacting your business?
  9. How is recent news impacting your business?
  10. How does the law impact your business?
  11. How do taxes impact your business?
  12. Who is your latest client?
  13. Who was your first client?
  14. Who is your most loyal client?
  15. Who is your favorite vendor?
  16. Where are you located?
  17. What is your office space or building like?
  18. Where do your employees live?
  19. How does your company help the local economy?
  20. Is your company green?
  21. What is your company doing to conserve energy?
  22. Who was the last employee you hired?
  23. What was the latest unexpected thing your company did?
  24. What was the last company outing you had?
  25. What email did you send today that you should share?
  26. What phone call did you get today that you should share?
  27. How does your company help local universities?
  28. How does your company impact your region?
  29. What are your employees favorite eateries around town?
  30. What are your employees favorite eateries around work?
  31. What do your employees do in their spare time?
  32. What are your employees hobbies?
  33. What's the last business book you read?
  34. What's your favorite book?
  35. What are your employees' favorite books?
  36. What's your favorite movie?
  37. What's the last movie you saw?
  38. What's the last play you saw?
  39. What's the last concert you went to?
  40. What are your employees' favorite movies?
  41. What's the last article you read?
  42. What blogs do you follow?
  43. What bloggers do you know?
  44. What bloggers would you like to meet?
  45. What's the last blog post you read that you liked?
  46. What's the last blog post you read that you disagreed with?
  47. What's the last blog post you commented on?
  48. Where do you get your industry news?
  49. What's the latest breakthrough in your industry?
  50. What's the hottest thing in your industry right now?
  51. What's the next big thing in your industry?
  52. What's the last event you went to?
  53. What's the last party you went to?
  54. Who would you like to meet?
  55. How long have you been in business?
  56. What's your latest client success?
  57. What's your largest client success?
  58. What's your favorite client success?
  59. What's the last dumb thing you did? What did you learn?
  60. What's the latest mistake your company made? How did you recover?
  61. What's the next upcoming event?
  62. What's the last prospect you lost and why should it have been avoided?
  63. What do you hate doing every day?
  64. What do you love doing every day?
  65. How do you de-stress from work?
  66. What's your life/work balance?
  67. What charities does your company support?
  68. What charities do your employees support?
  69. What's happening in your company's neighborhood?
  70. How many miles do you put on your car to see clients?
  71. How many flights have you taken this year?
  72. What's the biggest misconception about your company?
  73. What's the biggest misconception about your product?
  74. What are the common misconceptions about your product?
  75. What differentiates you from your competition?
  76. Where was your last vacation?
  77. Which employees just got married?
  78. Which employees just had children?
  79. What beer do your employees like?
  80. What wine do your employees like?
  81. What food do your employees like?
  82. What music do your employees like?
  83. What recipes can your employees share?
  84. How are you celebrating the holidays?
  85. Which employee stood out this week?
  86. What's the coolest gadget you love?
  87. What's the gadget you can't live without?
  88. What's the latest gadget you bought?
  89. What's your favorite free tool that others can get?
  90. What rules do you follow on how to treat customers?
  91. What's the latest tip you can share with your customers?
  92. What humorous website can you share?
  93. What's the latest YouTube video you'd like to share?
  94. What's the latest YouTube video about your company?
  95. What are your pet peeves in working with vendors?
  96. How do you provide customers return on investment?
  97. What does your company invest in?
  98. Where do you see your company in a year?
  99. Where do you see your company in 5 years?
  100. Where do you see your company in 10 years?
  101. How is the industry evolving?
  102. What's your largest concern with your industry?
  103. What's your least concern with your industry?
  104. How does technology impact your business?
  105. What's the latest news and how does it impact your business?
  106. Introduce your customer of the week.
  107. Introduce your employee of the week or month.
  108. Who does your company partner with strategically?
  109. How has your business grown in the last year?
  110. What budgets are you increasing or reducing and why?
  111. List of the biggest benefits of your product or service to share?
  112. List of the tips you'd like to share about your product to share?
  113. What's the latest tip you heard that you'd like to share?
  114. What's the last press release that went out?
  115. What's in the latest newsletter?
  116. When's the last time you made the news?
  117. What's the last chart you saw that surprised you?
  118. What's the last whitepaper you released?
  119. What's the last case study you released?
  120. What other publications haven't you shared in your blog?
  121. What's the latest customer testimonial you received?
  122. What are the latest customer survey results?
  123. What's the most unique customer you have?
  124. How are you working with local education?
  125. What universities did your employees attend?
  126. What's the next big event to happen in your company?
  127. What are the events you want to attend in the next 12 months?
  128. Who would you want to meet if given the opportunity?
  129. What's the last major investment your company made?
  130. What's your largest expense as a company?
  131. If you could change one thing about your industry, what would it be?
  132. What mistakes do you see made over and over in your industry?
  133. What are the legalities of your business or industry?
  134. Have any of your employees had a moment of fame?
  135. How can someone get in touch with you or your company?
  136. What's your disaster recovery plan?
  137. Who's invested in your business?
  138. How has your business evolved over the last year?
  139. How has your business evolved over the last 5 years?
  140. How has your business evolved over the last decade?
  141. What did you learn in high school that still matters?
  142. What did you learn in college that still matters?
  143. Which of your employees served in the military?
  144. What are your employees' pets?
  145. Where did you attend college?
  146. What sports do your employees play?
  147. What's the last presentation you gave?
  148. What's the last speech you gave?
  149. What business associations do you belong to?
  150. What certifications do your employees hold?
  151. What certifications does your company hold?
  152. Is your company compliant?
  153. What training does your company offer?
  154. What training are your employees attending?
  155. Who got promoted last in your company?
  156. What's the funniest business story you have?
  157. Who had the biggest impact on you as a person?
  158. Who had the biggest impact on you as a leader?
  159. What company would you want to be like and why?
  160. What do you do to treat your employees over and above?
  161. What do you do to treat your customers over and above?
  162. What's a typical day like in your office?
  163. What's a typical day like for you?
  164. Who are the employees that keep your business moving that people don't know?
  165. How do you acquire your customers?
  166. How do you acquire your employees?
  167. What's the last employee anniversary?
  168. What's great about the city your business is located in?
  169. What was the last award an employee of yours received?
  170. Have any employees that have had a 'moment of fame'?
  171. Any rumors with respect to your industry?
  172. What clients recently made the news that you can share?
  173. How is the Internet changing your business?
  174. How is social media changinge your business?
  175. What social networks do you belong to?
  176. Where can folks find you online?
  177. Where can folks find you after work?
  178. Where can folks find your employees after work?
  179. Who did your logo and how does it represent you?
  180. Who named your company and how does the name represent you?
  181. Does your company have a slogan?
  182. Does your company have a jingle?
  183. What's your next customer giveaway?
  184. What's your next promotion?
  185. How can a customer leverage your product or service for best results?
  186. What kind of referral or affiliate programs do you offer?
  187. What third party applications do you utilize?
  188. What tools does your company utilize?
  189. What is the best advice you've ever received?
  190. What's the lastest advice you've received that was good?
  191. How is your company changing the world?
  192. Who wrote about your blog last?
  193. How do you listen to your customers?
  194. What do your customers expect from you that you deliver?
  195. What's in your product roadmap?
  196. Who do you want to thank today?
  197. How do you get ideas?
  198. What inspires you?
  199. What did you learn today?
  200. How has Compendium Blogware improved your business results?
Compendium is powerful blogging software and writing a post is easier than writing an email. Along with our professional services, you won't find a better solution anywhere.  We don't just build software, we help companies to develop and execute a comprehensive business blogging strategy for social media domination!

Comments for 200 Blog Post Ideas for your Company Blog!

Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Adam Small:
Good post Doug, some good topics!
Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Muhammad Yaqoob:
well thats a really interest post. but it would be more good if you could please answer all these questions or express an overview about this post. at the end I'd say all these questions are really important to be focused before starting a business blog.
Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Muhammad Yaqoob:
are you interested to have link back with me please let me know
Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Nicki Laycoax:
Great post! There really is no excuse why a company should not be blogging...
Monday, October 20, 2008 by Chris Baggott:
Doug! This is brilliant! Thanks for the post....now let's turn it into a webinar.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 by Selby:
This is GREAT! I used this for my company blog to conjure up some ideas! It worked wonderfully!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 by jpower@pbp.com :
Fantastic list. But you missed, "blog about this great list," which I have done. thanks.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 by MLDina:
Thanks for the great suggestions! It can be hard to come up with content for a corporate/ company blog sometimes, so this is very useful!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 by BJ McKay:
Powerful suggestions Doug. Content is much closer than most of us realize. We create it from the moment we start our day, all the way until we go to sleep at night. It's just a matter of re-purposing that content onto our Blog.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 by Ranjan:
Just attended the Webinar its great, Thanks.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 by Douglas Karr:
Ranjan - thanks so much! We enjoyed putting the webinar together and really hope it helps companies leverage content in their blogging strategies.
Friday, November 21, 2008 by Kyle Lacy:
Oh Doug. So much power behind that keyboard. Social media domination is right!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by tiyo:
apology I can't give a comment....but thanks to information...i will upcoming again if you send me more informations..thanks....
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Denise Clancey:
Doug, Thanks for the list and thanks for the webinar (a good one). The list would make a great poster. Do you sell bloggear? No excuses to avoid blogging now.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by Scott Moroney:
Just goes to show that your customers want to hear more from you. Social media tools make this increasingly simple and real-time. Great list.
Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Karen Santana:
Great post and webinar! I have been working on some blogs for our clients and these questions will help me guide them better on the benefits of B2B blogging. Thank you!

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