5 Proven Ways to Find Content IDEAS That Your Audience will Love

Ranjan Mishra
5 min readSep 10, 2023

Personally, I faced this problem a lot.

Can’t find an ideal topic on which I can write.

If an idea gets then it is not worth it to write on.

Frustration also increased — just think you want to write but you don’t know what to write, on whom to write.

One thing I noticed is if you sit and hope I get an idea on which I can write you most probably at that time you’re not going to get the idea.

I follow these 5 and never let my bag of content ideas empty. 4th is my favorite so don’t miss it.

5 Personal Content-generating recipes

How to Find New Content Ideas

You are not GOD you Need to Accept this: FIRST

When we think about any idea or topic we always fall into this misconception that we need to find a really new idea or original that nobody has done earlier.

See things work completely differently than you think in this digital world.

People steal philosopher's ideas and write their books on them, from books creator steal topic and thought and make their videos and blog post, and from that creator some people steal and make their courses and from courses some people steal and make their free webinar and they sell their stuff later things are interconnected to each other.

So remove this thought of creating or generating completely new ideas.

What do I do when I am not able to get any idea for my content?

I started scrolling through my competitor's completely old posts which he used to put on social media in his early days steal their topic make some changes add some of my flavor write my best content on that topic and publish it.

Steal like an artist, and don’t leave a footprint by adding your flavor.

When you don’t get it then steal(Note: don’t copy-paste).

Scroll FAMOUS People's Comments: SECOND

This thing earlier when I ran my YouTube channel(I failed miserably) I always used this strategy.

In my niche, I make a list of 5 big creators and then in their video comment section, I go and observe which topic the audience wants next videos and what type of topic the audience suggests.

I take those topics and include them in my weekly content calendar and then it becomes easy for me to create content.

Sometimes you need to fill people's demands to get more engagement from the audience.

Make a list of big creators go to their post comment section observe the audience wants and take your next content ideas from there.

Write PROMPT Like this: THIRD

Since last year this has been very easy to get content ideas because of Chatgpt and Bard.

Personally, for generating content ideas, I use Bard I love.

On any topic ask 3 levels of questions by keeping your main motive in your mind.

Let's take a topic I want to write: storytelling category but I don’t know on which topic of storytelling I write.

So what I do is open Google Bard and try to niche down things like broad categories to smaller ones(inverted pyramid).

First I enter storytelling then the second prompt goes more specific in the storytelling category, like problems, and needs, and suggests me list of 20 storytelling topics.

From doing things in 3 or 4 steps you get an idea for your content but do not directly go and write Give me 20 storytelling telling you need to train the model.

I don’t recommend a chatGPT for content ideas use Bard or copy dot ai. Both will satisfy your needs.

How to Generate Effective Content Ideas

Walking on the STREET: FOURTH

This is my favorite whenever I lack in getting content ideas I always start working on street roads not inside the house.

I don’t know how brain mechanisms work but believe me you get amazing ideas and thoughts not for only your content ideas but also if you facing any problem related to money or life Believe me you can solve those problems just by walking on the street.

I also formed a 30-minute habit of walking every evening on the roads.

I feel now I am addicted to this habit It works for me like an energy booster, and gives me the motivation to take risks in life.

Try but follow one thing during walking what you want just think about that.

Make a note or idea file and start storing all pop ideas that your mind starts throwing at you, don’t let them go to waste.

3 WEBSITES Best if you don't like the Above 4 Points: FIFTH

These 3 websites have tons of information related to your topic.

You just need to go and search your topic e.g. storytelling and you get a lot of questions, Just make those questions your title and write on it.

3 websites for Content Ideas Generation:

  1. Answers the public(my favorite)
  2. Quora
  3. Reddit/Brainly

🎉Bonus: You don’t need to always topic or content ideas for writing.

Must see trends or news related to your industry or world trending topic and write some stuff and post it when people are hungry to consume content on trending topics you don’t know which pieces of shit will go viral.

Try to create your content in THREE parts:

  1. Evergreen topic
  2. Controversial/ trending topic
  3. And for a small community people(loyal people) To whom you can sell your products/services in the future.

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