What can you blog about? History

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Getting good business blog ideas is becoming an increasing headache for many business people. In this series, we take a look at some key areas of inspiration to help trigger ideas for your next blog post. This time, we look at history.

This may not work for every type of business but it certainly will provide some great business blog ideas for many.

Not only can it be very interesting but also it can funny and entertaining. The trick is to write the historical blog posts in a light and easy-going way without boring readers with too many stuffy facts, and just picking up on the more captivating stories.

Try, too, to relate the historical content back to the present day and how the way things were back then would be seen now, especially by your customers. Don’t be intimidated by what you think may be boring topics, either. There is bound to be something amusing and interesting even in the history of screws and nails…

Let’s think up a few sample business blog ideas

OK, screws and nails!

The first civilizations to use nails
When someone dreamt up using a thread and making a screw
Why threads on screws that way around and not the other way
Horrible accidents and crimes were committed in history, using screws and nails

Social Media

Early storytellers
Stories told via folk songs and poetry
Town criers and how they worked
Gossip and “Chinese Whispers” in centuries past
The role of the telephone in early social media
The lost art of letter and note writing
Compuserve: the first live chat online?

Real estate business

Interviews with elderly former brokers saying what it was like back in their day
The first real estate brokers / estate agents: where it all started
What homes sold for through the ages
The challenges of selling homes of historical interest

Nail manicure business

The first nail polishing in history
What substances were used to glamorize nails through history
Men’s nails in history
Nail fashions through the ages
How nail polish was first formulated
Famous nail polish manufacturers in the early 20^th century
False nails through history

Electrical engineers/contractors

How electricity was harnessed way back when
The very early days of using electricity for power etc.
The first electrical engineers and how they worked
What electricity was like when it was first introduced into homes
What electricity was like when it was first introduced into workplaces
The differences harnessed electricity made to civilization

Painting and decorating business

The first interior decoration – in caves?
Home/building decoration through the ages
Materials used for decoration through the ages
Dangers over come, e.g. lead paint
Different fashions in wallpaper through the centuries
How interior colour preferences have varied over the last 2-3 hundred years

And so-on. Once again, a lot of this information is available in the general media, but when you write about it for your customers or clients it will be unique, because it has your stamp on it. Just be sure to know your readers well enough to judge accurately what will be of interest and/or amusement to them.

Good luck!

For more business blog ideas, give me a shout on suze@suzanstmaur.com.

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