Best blogging tool for bloggers and freelance writers

What are the biggest problem bloggers and freelance writers like you and me, face in our day to day blogging or writing job – Quality of blog post or writing.

 

Best blogging tool for bloggers and freelance writers

  

This is the biggest concern; any blogger or writer faces every day. Quality may depend on many factors like knowledge of the topic, research on the topic, data available, storytelling and ability to write.

You may be thinking, why the hell, “ability to write”, is a factor here. Here ability to write is related to, “Grammatical error free writing” and this is more important if you are a Non – Native English writer like I. Grammar is the soul of any Language. It shows the richness and diversity of language. Grammar gives us the ability to express in the correct manner in that particular language. Here English is that language.

There may be several times, you might be confused between American English and British English.  For example - Favorite and Color (American English) or Favourite and Colour (British English), very simple difference but very confusing every time you go for writing.

So, what is the solution of this big problem – Grammarly App.

Why Grammarly – According to their about us page on their website

Grammarly is the world’s leading automated proofreader. It checks for more than 250 types of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, enhances vocabulary usage, and suggests citations.

You may have heard this before and quite possible some of you may be using this simple but powerful proofreading tool. It is not only helpful in grammatical error checking but also, a great tool for Plagiarism checking.

This tool is available as a chrome browser extension and also as a native app for Windows operating system. The Tool is available for free to perform basic correction of the grammatical error with weekly performance report by mail. 

Grammarly tool has a Premium version too, which performs advanced actions like:

1.      Grammar Check – This is the best thing for non-native English writers like you and me, we don’t need to worry about grammar instead we can focus on the quality of content.

2.       Plagiarism Check – We all know the consequences of plagiarism and the bad name it will bring for us. This may happen due to ignorance also, better to check it for plagiarism before posting.

3.      Spell Check – This is the most important thing in writing; a single letter can change the whole meaning of a word or a sentence.

4.      Proofreading Tool – This is an overall tool which checks for more than 250 advanced errors due to various combinations of grammatical errors.

An online proofreading tool like Grammarly is the best tool available for bloggers or writers to focus on writing instead of grammars or any other errors.

You can get a free Grammarly account or if you have a free account, get the free premium account to check, whether it’s useful for you or not.

Over to you:

Do try & share your thoughts on its usage and capabilities. Do you use any other proofreading tool; tell about that in the comment section or on Twitter.

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How to get inspirations from Startups in Blog writing

As blog writers, we are always under pressure to write more blog posts but with quality.

There are always pressures from content managers or blog owners on you to bring fresh and engaging content.

So, how can we get inspiration to write more blog posts?

Blog writers like you and I can learn lots of things from modern age startups. We have various similarities, by which we can take inspiration and enhance our blog writing.

Let’s explore it  :)

How to get inspirations from Startups in Blog writing

Startup – This is a big buzzword in business world nowadays, especially in the US, India, and China. These three countries are top 3 places in the world for startup activities. 

“Startup” word was 1^st used by Forbes magazine in 1976. According to Wikipedia,

“Startup is an entrepreneurial venture or a new business in the form of a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

Let’s explore; how startups work. Here we will not go in details, why some startups grow or why some startups fail. We will only seek inspiration from their best practices.

Generally, startups focus on following practices –

1. Solution of a specific problem
2. Cost Effectiveness 
3. Target a Niche Market 
4. Scalability

Let’s discuss; what you can learn from this.

1. Solution of a specific problem -   Most of the successful startups in the world are focusing on a specific problem of our day to day life activities like Shopping (Amazon, E-bay, Alibaba, Flipkart, Snapdeal etc) or Commuting within city (Uber, Ola) or Hotels (Oyo rooms) and more like this.

Blog writers too can focus on a specific problem in their blog writing about their target audience or industry. You can bring those problems in light and can suggest solutions & best practices based on your experience or industry research data.

Do some research, on topics before you start writing blog posts. If you are facing or have faced similar problems of that particular industry, you are the best person to write on that particular topic.

2. Cost Effectiveness – Startups are always trying to bring down the costs of their products/services to achieve cost effectiveness and to make it affordable to the consumers.

What is the significance of this in blog writing?

Good question; let’s try to find the answer.

As a blog writer, you know, we all need several tools to do topic research, video/photo editing, writing & publishing tools and many more.

Whether you are a freelance blog writer or works for a big brand or agency, you don’t want to exhaust your content marketing budget on blog publishing only. You all want to save money, so how to bring cost effectiveness in your blog writing.The solution is at your fingertips, just search the web and you will get lots of free and affordable tools to help in your blog writing or content production. You can outsource some of your projects on sites like freelance or Fiverr for as low as $5 to save some time and big money on costly tools (if you can’t afford these tools or you required them for one-time use only). Try them!

3. Target a Niche Market – Most of the startups even the Unicorns (startups having a market valuation of at least $1 billion) started their journey by targeting a Niche customer segment of a particular industry.

So, what does ‘Niche’ means! According to Wikipedia, “Niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product/service is focused. The Niche market is highly specialized, and aiming to survive among the competition from numerous super companies.”

What this means to you as a blog writer.

Choose your blog’s topic by selecting a particular segment of an industry. Let’s say, you have a marketing background and you write marketing industry-related blogs. But, you know the marketing industry is a very big field having several segments like Advertising, Branding, Digital Marketing, Rural Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Influencer Marketing and so on and even these segments consist of various sub-segments individually.

So choose your sub-segment or your niche segment and become an expert writer of that field, to gain authority and make an impact among your blog writers.

 As you may remember Alibaba’s founder and chairman Jack Ma once said to Forbes magazine,

“EBay may be a Shark in the ocean, but I’m a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.”

So it’s better to cater a niche market rather than fight in the bigger market and lost in the deep ocean.

4. Scalability – This is one of the best things, we can learn from startups. Every startup starts its journey by focusing on a niche market segment and later scales their products/services to the bigger market to tap bigger opportunities.

As a blog writer, what you can do to scale or expand your blog writing skills to other segments. If you carefully analyze, most of the industry have some common problems like talent management, financing, sustainability, cost management, better allocation of resources, and so on. Can you relate some similar problems in the other niche markets with your market, if yes, research and co-relate and write on that particular topic. This will bring new light on that topic from an industry outsider.

“Don’t think about failures, you know how to swim in the river, now it’s time to explore the ocean.”

Conclusion – We all have hidden talent and resources to expand and grow like startups to produce a quality blog posts.

Just Inspire yourself by Nike’ tagline –

“Just Do It.”

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