
Episode 173: 9 Content Ideas for When You’re in a Slump
08/15/23 • 15 min
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9 Content Ideas for When You’re in a Creative Slump
We all have them – creativity slumps. As you know, one of the reasons I’m such a huge proponent of batching is to decrease these slumps, but they still happen. Sometimes it’s time to create content and you just don’t have any ideas on what to talk about or how to serve your people.
So today, I’m giving you 9 different content ideas that you can take with you into those slumps. In fact, if you follow through and do this week’s action step, you’ll have a content bank of 45 different ideas you can save for those days when you just aren’t feeling it.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- If you want your business to grow, effective marketing is crucial. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend a ton of time on your marketing – even if you’re a solopreneur. Do you dream of business growth, but aren’t gaining traction? Does the thought of tackling your marketing feel daunting? Or, do you understand the importance of effective marketing, but simply don’t have the time to get it done? There’s good news! Marketing doesn’t have to be so overwhelming, confusing, and complicated. Say goodbye to the confusion and complexity that has held you back, and say hello to a clear, actionable roadmap for business growth. In my book, Chasing Simple Marketing, I’ll take you on a journey to demystify marketing with simplicity as your guiding principle. You’ll walk away with a clear, concise, and personalized marketing strategy designed specifically for your entrepreneurial journey. You don’t need a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or a background in business to tackle your marketing head-on thanks to the strategies and techniques in this book that deliver real results. No longer will marketing feel like an insurmountable mountain; instead, it will become an easily manageable and integral part of your business. Take your content from non-existent or inconsistent, to a true tool to grow your business by Chasing Simple Marketing. You can grab your own copy by heading to Amazon and searching for Chasing Simple Marketing, or you can hop over to amandawarfield.com/book/ to learn more about buying it for yourself.
- This week’s action step: Take a few minutes and brainstorm 5 different pieces of content for each of these 8 ideas.
- This week’s book recommendation: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
- Find me on Instagram and tell me you completed this week’s action step: @mrsamandawarfield
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Have a comment about today’s episode, or a topic you’d like to suggest for a future episode? Shoot me an email over at [email protected]!
Rather Read? – Here’s the Transcript!
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurateWe all have them. Creativity slumps. As you know, one of the reasons I’m such a huge proponent of batching is to decrease these slumps, but they still happen. Sometimes it’s time to create content and you just don’t have any ideas on what to talk about or how to serve your people. So today I’m giving you nine different content ideas that you can take with you into those slumps.
In fact, if you follow through and do this week’s action step, you’ll have a content bank of 45 different ideas that you can save for those days when you just aren’t feeling it. You’re listening to episode 173 of The Chasing Simple Podcast, and I’m your host, Amanda Warfield. This episode was brought to you by my book, Chasing Simple Marketing, and you can grab your own copy at amandawarfield.com / book.
How do I find time to create content without overwhelming myself? Where should I even be showing up in my marketing? How do I come up with fresh content ideas? Where should I be focusing my marketing efforts? What is lead generation anyways and how do I do it? Are launches still a thing? And most importantly, how do I put it all together to market my business strategically?
Can I really grow my business without spending all of my time marketing? These are some of the questions that float around in your head when you think of marketing. Welcome friend. This is Chasing Simple Where Practical Marketing Strategy Meets Simplicity. I’m your host, Amanda Warfield, simplicity focused content marketing and launch strategist, speaker educator, and autho...
9 Content Ideas for When You’re in a Creative Slump
We all have them – creativity slumps. As you know, one of the reasons I’m such a huge proponent of batching is to decrease these slumps, but they still happen. Sometimes it’s time to create content and you just don’t have any ideas on what to talk about or how to serve your people.
So today, I’m giving you 9 different content ideas that you can take with you into those slumps. In fact, if you follow through and do this week’s action step, you’ll have a content bank of 45 different ideas you can save for those days when you just aren’t feeling it.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- If you want your business to grow, effective marketing is crucial. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend a ton of time on your marketing – even if you’re a solopreneur. Do you dream of business growth, but aren’t gaining traction? Does the thought of tackling your marketing feel daunting? Or, do you understand the importance of effective marketing, but simply don’t have the time to get it done? There’s good news! Marketing doesn’t have to be so overwhelming, confusing, and complicated. Say goodbye to the confusion and complexity that has held you back, and say hello to a clear, actionable roadmap for business growth. In my book, Chasing Simple Marketing, I’ll take you on a journey to demystify marketing with simplicity as your guiding principle. You’ll walk away with a clear, concise, and personalized marketing strategy designed specifically for your entrepreneurial journey. You don’t need a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or a background in business to tackle your marketing head-on thanks to the strategies and techniques in this book that deliver real results. No longer will marketing feel like an insurmountable mountain; instead, it will become an easily manageable and integral part of your business. Take your content from non-existent or inconsistent, to a true tool to grow your business by Chasing Simple Marketing. You can grab your own copy by heading to Amazon and searching for Chasing Simple Marketing, or you can hop over to amandawarfield.com/book/ to learn more about buying it for yourself.
- This week’s action step: Take a few minutes and brainstorm 5 different pieces of content for each of these 8 ideas.
- This week’s book recommendation: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
- Find me on Instagram and tell me you completed this week’s action step: @mrsamandawarfield
Did you love this episode?
Don’t forget to subscribe so that you never miss an episode! Also, if you would be willing to leave a review on Apple Podcasts, it would mean the world to me. It’s such a small thing that can make a big difference in helping me spread this message of simplicity to other overwhelmed women.
Have a comment about today’s episode, or a topic you’d like to suggest for a future episode? Shoot me an email over at [email protected]!
Rather Read? – Here’s the Transcript!
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurateWe all have them. Creativity slumps. As you know, one of the reasons I’m such a huge proponent of batching is to decrease these slumps, but they still happen. Sometimes it’s time to create content and you just don’t have any ideas on what to talk about or how to serve your people. So today I’m giving you nine different content ideas that you can take with you into those slumps.
In fact, if you follow through and do this week’s action step, you’ll have a content bank of 45 different ideas that you can save for those days when you just aren’t feeling it. You’re listening to episode 173 of The Chasing Simple Podcast, and I’m your host, Amanda Warfield. This episode was brought to you by my book, Chasing Simple Marketing, and you can grab your own copy at amandawarfield.com / book.
How do I find time to create content without overwhelming myself? Where should I even be showing up in my marketing? How do I come up with fresh content ideas? Where should I be focusing my marketing efforts? What is lead generation anyways and how do I do it? Are launches still a thing? And most importantly, how do I put it all together to market my business strategically?
Can I really grow my business without spending all of my time marketing? These are some of the questions that float around in your head when you think of marketing. Welcome friend. This is Chasing Simple Where Practical Marketing Strategy Meets Simplicity. I’m your host, Amanda Warfield, simplicity focused content marketing and launch strategist, speaker educator, and autho...
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Episode 172: Emails Your Audience Actually Wants to Read with Kate Doster
How To Write Emails Your Audience Wants To Read
When I’m working with clients, email lists are always, without fail, at the bottom of their to-do lists and the lowest of their content priorities. I’m not sure why email marketing has gotten such a bad rep over the years, or if it’s just fear because it feels so intimate (because it is), or something else, but I am constantly finding myself in a position where I’m trying to push email marketing into a higher priority for clients and students.
But an email list? It’s an incredible way to nurture relationships with your people. They find you through social, or other visibility opportunities. You send them to your long form content so they can really get to know you and hear from you. But your email list? That’s where you continue to build that relationship.
Not to mention that it’s the BEST way for you to sell. Without a doubt.
But, because email marketing can seem so scary, I brought in an expert to help us make it a whole lot simpler.
Kate Doster is the host of the Do The Brave Thing Podcast, creator of the Love Your List 2.0 email marketing mega course and is dangerously obsessed with helping ethical entrepreneurs carve out their slice of the interwebs by wooing the hearts (and wallets) open of their small but mighty audiences thanks to fun email marketing and Easy Yes mini-offers. She believes you don’t need to bleed the alphabet or be a dirty rotten spam face to write emails that jolt subscribers into taking action, gobbling up your paid offers like candy... or kale if that’s your thing.
I mean, just by that bio, I know you know that she’s incredible at what she does right? Just wait until you hear this episode. Kate is a wealth of gold, and every time I hear her speak, I learn a hundred new things. It’s incredible. So, let’s introduce you to her, shall we?
Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Really quickly, before we dive into this episode – I just HAVE to share something I’m really excited about with you. My book, Chasing Simple Marketing, is launching this July. I wrote this book for the business owner that stumbled into entrepreneurship because they were following their passion. But without that Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or background in business, they find marketing overwhelming and frustrating. Throughout these pages, I’m going to take you on a simplicity-focused journey to improve your content marketing and you’ll walk away with an actionable plan to simplify your marketing, so that you can fit your marketing into your business, without it taking over your business. To learn more about how to grab your copy, and even potentially get on the launch team head over to amandawarfield.com/book/ See you there!
- This week’s episode is brought to you by the Chasing Simple Content Planner and you can grab your own at amandawarfield.com/planner/
- Don’t worry about what to email your list for 2 years
- Kate’s Podcast
- This week’s action step: Email your list!
- This week’s book recommendation: Essentialism by Greg McKeown and Relentless by Tim Grover
- Find me on Instagram and tell me you completed this week’s action step: @mrsamandawarfield
Kate Doster is the host of the Do The Brave Thing Podcast, creator of the Love Your List 2.0 email marketing mega course and is dangerously obsessed with helping ethical entrepreneurs carve out their slice of the interwebs by wooing the hearts (and wallets) open of their small but mighty audiences thanks to fun email marketing and Easy Yes mini-offers. She believes you don’t need to bleed the alphabet or be a dirty rotten spam face to write emails that jolt subscribers into taking action, gobbling up your paid offers like candy... or kale if that’s your thing.
Social Links:
https://www.katedoster.com https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=Kate%20Doster @kate_doster
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Episode 174: Creating a Schedule as an Entrepreneur with Chronic Illness with Sandra Henderson
Creating a Schedule as an Entrepreneur with Chronic Illness
If you also deal with a chronic illness, you know how much it affects your daily life and your business. And even for those without a chronic illness, if you’re someone who menstrates, you likely find that there are times during the month where you feel like you’re on top of the world. And then there are times where you feel like you accomplish nothing. Spoiler: there’s nothing wrong with you. You just need to create a schedule that works with your body.
And in today’s episode, I’m so excited to introduce you to my friend Sandra.
Sandra Henderson is a wedding photographer, business coach, and podcast host based in Ontario, Canada. She specializes in helping wedding photographers create strategic systems for their businesses to help them get their time back so they can spend it doing the things they love most. As an entrepreneur who also navigates chronic illness life, Sandra also takes a unique approach to using systems that will help businesses thrive no matter what life throws your way. On a personal note, she loves tacos, 90’s music, travelling, and spending time at home with her husband, step-son, and two cats!
Sandra is a fellow endometriosis warrior, and we connected about that and the idea of cycle syncing, which has majorly changed how I view my business. And today she’s sharing the three things she utilizes to create a schedule as a business owner with a chronic illness: boundaries, systems, and cycle syncing. Even if you don’t have a chronic illness, you’ll get so much from this episode, because we’re chatting all things sustainable scheduling.
Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Really quickly, before we dive into this episode – I just HAVE to share something I’m really excited about with you. My book, Chasing Simple Marketing, is launching this July. I wrote this book for the business owner that stumbled into entrepreneurship because they were following their passion. But without that Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or background in business, they find marketing overwhelming and frustrating. Throughout these pages, I’m going to take you on a simplicity-focused journey to improve your content marketing and you’ll walk away with an actionable plan to simplify your marketing, so that you can fit your marketing into your business, without it taking over your business. To learn more about how to grab your copy, and even potentially get on the launch team head over to amandawarfield.com/book/ See you there!
- This week’s episode is brought to you by the Chasing Simple Content Planner and you can grab your own at amandawarfield.com/planner/
- Episodes around Cycle Syncing
- My interview on Keeping it Candid
- CRM Tools – Honeybook Affiliate Link
- Episode about how I use Honeybook for Guest Interviews
- This week’s action step: 1) Start tracking everything cycle related. 2) Start embracing autoresponders.
- This week’s book recommendation: The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- Find me on Instagram and tell me you completed this week’s action step: @mrsamandawarfield
Sandra Henderson is a wedding photographer, business coach, and podcast host based in Ontario, Canada. She specializes in helping wedding photographers create strategic systems for their businesses to help them get their time back so they can spend it doing the things they love most. As an entrepreneur who also navigates chronic illness life, Sandra also takes a unique approach to using systems that will help businesses thrive no matter what life throws your way. On a personal note, she loves tacos, 90’s music, travelling, and spending time at home with her husband, step-son, and two cats!
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