Indianapolis Blog Writer Shares the Secret of Patience – in Puzzles or Corporate Blog Writing

One puzzle type is called “What’s Left?”, where there’s a grid with 60 different words, and each clue tells what categories of words the solver should cross off.  For example, “Cross off all 8-letter words in columns B and D that can be divided into two 4-letter words.”  If I’ve followed all the directions correctly, I’m left with a wise saying.

Well, I’ve just finished solving one of these puzzles, and the saying I revealed is one that I think could be a very appropriate one for all of us Say It For You content writers in Indianapolis to remember:

 “THE SECRET OF PATIENCE IS TO DO SOMETHING IN THE MEANTIME.”

The most obvious connection is that corporate blogging for business takes patience – lots of it. Any activity that necessitates sticking to a task week after week, month after month, year after year – well it takes perseverance.  Blogging for business takes patience as well, because (despite some business owners’ unrealistic expectations) even the best of SEO marketing blogs may not be rewarded with instantaneous Google Page One status.)

So what are some of the “in the meantime” activities that can be of business blogging help?

Work on your overall marketing plan. Remember, your blog is just one piece of the strategizing you do with your web designer, marketing consultant, ghost blogger, managers, employees, networking colleagues and customers.

Systematically collect ideas. “The best blog ideas often happen during a conversation, in the shower, or while listening to a seminar. Don’t fight it. Instead, have a method for capturing these ideas so you can save them for later,” advises friend Michael Reynolds in a Say It For You guest post.

Ponder. What’s your special slant in your industry? What are some of the values you want to embody in the way you serve customers?

Read, Listen. Learn.  One of the deceptively simple insights I’ve gained over the years of providing business blogging help and which I share in corporate blog training is that the more you know about, the more you have to blog about.

Business owners and freelance blog content writers – whenever you’re feeling as if your patience is stretched and that blogging is a puzzle –  the solution is to do something in the meantime!