PB024: Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog [Day 24 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog] - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

How to Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog
Today's episode is about how to use a magazine to help you improve your blog - using'old media'to help you improve your approach to'new media'. As well as being simple - and potentially a bit of fun - looking through a magazine has the potential to help you improve your blog in any number of ways.

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In this EpisodeYou can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about:

8 different ways looking through a magazine could give you ideas to improve your blogA step-by-step process for how to analyse a magazine to get fresh ideas

Further ReadingImprove Your Blog by Reading a Magazine - an Exercise for Bloggers
Why Reading Makes you More Creative: Creative Market10 Ideas to Get You Inspired to Write: BlogHer

How did you go with today's challenge?
What fresh ideas did you get today from analysing a magazine? What will you do differently on your blog?I'd love to see what changes you make to your blog from this exercise. Share a link to your post in the comments below. Let me know what you've done differently.
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Finally - if you have a moment we'd love to get your feedback on the ProBlogger Podcast with this short survey which will help us plan future episodes.Full TranscriptExpand to view full transcript
Compress to smaller transcript viewWelcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 24 and day 24 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog where today, my challenge to you is to get a magazine and to read it. It sounds like a strange task for today, but you’re going to get a whole heap of ideas from this magazine that will hopefully help you improve your blog and perhaps you’ll have a good time, too. You might want to grab a cup of coffee, tea, smoothie, settle back with your magazine and learn about blogging.

You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/24 where you also have the opportunity to let us know what you think about today’s episode.Hi, this is Darren Rowse from ProBlogger and welcome to day 24 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today’s challenge is a really simple one. In fact, many of you probably find it quite fun. It has the potential to help your blog in many ways as well. Today, you’re going to read a magazine. Yup, you heard me. Today, old media is going to help you improve your new media blog.

Today, by looking through a magazine, you could find that it helps in any number of ways. You might get marketing ideas while looking at how the magazine pitches to get itself to get readers and paying particular attention to the front cover, which is what convinces people to buy the magazine or not.You might learn all kinds of things about calling people for action, headlines, and all types of things to get people to pay attention to you. You might learn about design ideas while online and offline are quite different, how the magazines laid out, the colors they used, the fonts they use could help you to understand current trends in design.

You might get post ideas, particularly if you choose a magazine that relates to your niche, but even if you don’t, I often find as I’m reading magazines that don’t relate to my niche, I get ideas for how to tackle my topics by looking at how they do it.You might also learn about your niche, particularly if you choose a magazine that is from yours, might help you to keep up with the latest trends and developments in your area. I know in the photography space, I used to read photography magazines really regularly,

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