How To: Crowdsource Your Blog

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You've started a business, and you're really excited.  Like any fresh entrepreneur, you dive right in.  For the first few months, you're updating your website on a regular basis.  You've learned that it's important for you to blog to keep your content updated, and you're just overflowing with ideas.  

Then, right around month three or four, you start to slow down.  Blogging starts to take a backseat to all of the other work you have to do.  Not only are you busy, but you're starting to run out of blog topics and you find yourself writing the same things over and over again.  Your blog did its job, because now you have more customers than you know what to do with.  You don't mean to...but you start slacking on your blogging, just a little bit.  You get that annoying nagging voice in your mind telling you that you need to start blogging again or your business is going to suffer.  

What's really has to be on a business owner's to do? 

Luckily, there are many options for you.  In your situation, knowing how to crowdsource will help you tremendously.  Rather than just outsourcing, crowdsourcing opens up many more possibilities for you.  If you were to hire an individual blogger, you'd find yourself in the same type of predicament in a few months' time.  One person can only come up with so many ideas, and then they run out.  

Crowdsourcing allows you to tap the minds of hundreds of bloggers for your blog.  There are many great sites out there that offer crowdsourcing blog services.  Sites like BlogMutt or Media Room VIP don't cost very much, and you get high-quality, relevant content for your blog each and every week.  You'll have as much content as you want, and your blog will stay updated and fresh.

Crowdsourcing for your blog will free you up to focus on other areas of your business that need your attention more. You'll be thrilled to have that important item checked off your to-do list, and you'll reap the benefits without having to put in the effort.

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