33 Blog Post Ideas for the Personal Brand-Building Blogger

  • 1 min read

Here are some blog post suggestions to help you successfully build your blog and your personal brand.

For simplicity, I’m assuming that your personal brand is related to your profession.

  1. Tell an unusual personal story that exposes not-so-obvious insight about your work
  2. Make a short slideshow video about a trendy topic
  3. Critique a new tool that other people in your industry should know about
  4. Post a gallery of photos from an industry event (with photographers’ permission, of course)
  5. Use Flickr’s Creative Commons search to make a gallery of impressive work-related images
  6. Write a review of the most recent book in your niche that you finished reading
  7. Find a problem that you’re dealing with or have dealt with recently, and explain how you solved it
  8. Compile a How To guide with step-by-step images, aiming for a new topic that hasn’t been covered by many others yet
  9. List the most important issues/problems/trends in your profession today
  10. Talk about case studies with examples & stories from ‘real’ people i.e. non-experts
  11. Gather a long list of handy resources in one easy-to-bookmark article
  12. If you have one, give your unorthodox, original opinion on something well-known in your industry
  13. Break a top news story (if you can get it!)
  14. Collect the most popular articles in your industry on social media for a certain time frame and write your own short opinion of each
  15. Sum up recent industry news and write your own short take of each item
  16. Discuss surprising numbers or statistics that you recently discovered or learned about
  17. In detail, answer a specific, common question many people are asking
  18. Answer industry-related questions that people have posted on social media
  19. Interview someone who you believe may become a star in your industry
  20. Interview someone who is a star in your industry
  21. Interview yourself i.e. ask yourself the questions you’d most like to answer in an interview
  22. Predict the future of your industry or profession
  23. Describe the history of your profession, or one specific aspect of it, such as where certain terms come from
  24. Compare how your profession used to be with how it is today, and comment on whether the change has been good
  25. Write a lexicon of industry terms
  26. Run a group writing project on a thought-provoking topic that will get other bloggers blogging
  27. Summarize a long piece of industry research, saving people the time of going through all of it by themselves
  28. Ask for feedback from your readers about your blogging & your brand
  29. Respond to feedback from your readers about your blogging & your brand
  30. Describe a day in your life, or a day in the life of a certain kind of industry professional
  31. Create a list of your most popular blog posts
  32. Create a list of the most important/useful blog posts you’ve seen recently
  33. Explain to students why they would want to enter your profession

Author:

Jacob Share, a job search expert, is the creator of JobMob, one of the biggest blogs in the world about finding jobs. Follow him on Twitter for job search tips and humor.

Picture of Jacob Share

Jacob Share

Jacob Share, a job search expert, is the creator of JobMob, one of the biggest blogs in the world about finding jobs. Follow him on Twitter for job search tips and humor.

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

I’m not wealthy by any measure but I paid for my daughter’s braces in cash, take one good vacation a year, and sleep without anxiety — and that math only works because I treat my budget like a contract with myself that I refuse to break

I’m not wealthy by any measure but I paid for my daughter’s braces in cash, take one good vacation a year, and sleep without anxiety — and that math only works because I treat my budget like a contract with myself that I refuse to break

Global English Editing
I retired to Costa Rica because a YouTube video told me I could live like a king on $2,000 a month — and by month six I was spending $4,000, missing Target, and crying in a pharmacy because I couldn’t explain my symptoms in Spanish

I retired to Costa Rica because a YouTube video told me I could live like a king on $2,000 a month — and by month six I was spending $4,000, missing Target, and crying in a pharmacy because I couldn’t explain my symptoms in Spanish

Global English Editing
Behavioral scientists found that people who prefer solitude over socializing aren’t lonely — they’ve discovered that the quality of their own company is higher than what most social interactions provide, and that realization changes everything

Behavioral scientists found that people who prefer solitude over socializing aren’t lonely — they’ve discovered that the quality of their own company is higher than what most social interactions provide, and that realization changes everything

Global English Editing
I’m 65 and the secret to being happy in retirement is something nobody wants to hear — you have to let go of the person you were and that feels a lot like dying before it feels like freedom

I’m 65 and the secret to being happy in retirement is something nobody wants to hear — you have to let go of the person you were and that feels a lot like dying before it feels like freedom

Global English Editing
Psychology says the loneliest form of resilience isn’t surviving hardship – it’s being so good at handling everything alone that people stop checking if you need support and eventually you stop believing you deserve it

Psychology says the loneliest form of resilience isn’t surviving hardship – it’s being so good at handling everything alone that people stop checking if you need support and eventually you stop believing you deserve it

Global English Editing
Nobody talks about why the same people keep attracting narcissists — it’s not bad luck or poor judgment, it’s that your empathy and your willingness to see the best in people are the exact traits a narcissist is trained to recognize and exploit

Nobody talks about why the same people keep attracting narcissists — it’s not bad luck or poor judgment, it’s that your empathy and your willingness to see the best in people are the exact traits a narcissist is trained to recognize and exploit

Global English Editing
Load more
CATEGORIES
Explore