I used to spend at least three hours of my day staring at a blank word document.
As a writer, that’s pretty standard, the initial idea for a useful article is an elusive thing, and writing the first sentence can be as hard as matching your left eyeliner flick to the right one.
But I’ve found some ways of generating great content ideas that I’m actually excited to write about.
Let me share them with you.
Snapchat is just for teenagers to send nudes to each other, right? WRONG.
With a company valuation of around $16 billion, and 10 billion daily video views at the time of writing, Snapchat offers a real opportunity to share your story with a wider, younger, audience.
Here’s what Snapchat is, what media organisations are doing on it, and how you can get ahead by using it (for work purposes, obvs.)
Do you know how much your hair costs?
Seems like a silly question unless you wear a wig, weave or extensions, but when I was writing my how much does my face cost post, it got me thinking, if that’s how much we spend on makeup, how much do we spend on our hair?
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1. The gym (especially an Easy Gym)
2. Your house (this is a Netflix and chill location, not a date location)
3. Nandos (any restaurant where you have to get up to order is not an appropriate date location)
4. Morleys/Chicken cottage/Sams/IKEA’s food court/Subway (see above)
5. A football match (unless you are both *avid* football fans)
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Phoebe Parke 