PB081: 14 Types of Stories You Can Tell On Your Blog - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

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14 Different Stories You Can Tell to Get People Reading Your BlogToday's episode is about how to work out what to write about when you feel like you have nothing left to say. It's part two on this topic, so you might like to listen back to episode 80 first. I share 14 different types of stories you can use to get people excited about reading your blog, and resources and reading you can refer to into the future when you get stuck.





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). In today's episode:

How to tell a personal discovery storyHow to tell an illustrative or analogous story
How to share a success storyHow to share a story about failure
How to tell someone else's story
How to tell'How I did it'stories
How to tell a biography story - a story about someone elseHow to tell your autobiography - tell your own story from start to finish
How to use images or video to tell a storyHow to tell a story using a case study
How to tell a fictitious storyHow to share reader stories
How to tell collective storiesHow to tell'Imagine if...'stories

Further Reading and Resources for 14 Different Stories You Can Tell to Get People Reading Your BlogPodcast Episode 80: What to Write When You Feel Like You’ve Got Nothing Left to Say
Podcast Episode 38: The Biggest Lesson I Learned About Building a Profitable Blog in 2015Podcast Episode 67: Why You Should Create a Product to Sell On Your Blog (and Tips on How to Do It)
How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the WorldHow NOT to Send an Email: A Day We’d Rather Forget But a Story We Need to Tell
Content Week Case Study: Carly Heitlinger of The College PrepsterHow A Simple Blog Led To Writing For Forbes, Mashable, and TechCrunch (and 7 Tips to Help You Do it Too!)
Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year ‘Overnight’ Success]
How to Craft a Blog Post – 10 Crucial Points to PauseWhy Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog
The Science of Storytelling: 6 Ways to Write More Persuasive StoriesThe 5 Things Every (Great) Marketing Story NeedsFull TranscriptExpand to view full transcript
Compress to smaller transcript viewHi there. My name is Darren Rowse and welcome to episode 81 of the ProBlogger Podcast. Today, we're going to continue on from my last podcast where I encourage you to tell your story as a way of coming up with something unique to say on your blog. That being a struggle that a lot of bloggers have is that everyone's already said it, while no one's already said your story. You can actually listen to that last podcast episode in episode 80.

But today, I want to give you some different types of stories that you might want to tell on your blog. Some of these are stories that you could tell about your own story, but some of them are also other types of stories. I'm going to give you 14 of them. You can find today's show notes where I'm going to give you a whole heap of examples of these types of stories. You may actually want to open up this link so that you can pause the podcast as we go along and check out the examples. You can find the show notes at problogger.com/podcast/81 where I'll give you those examples and you can also share your own examples in the comments. Let's get into today's episode.

Let's get into the 14 types of stories that you can tell. The first one is the personal discovery story. This is where you tell the story of you discovering something for the first time, a lesson that you've learned if you like. These stories are really great because they do allow your readers to see that you ar...

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