Content Generation Idea Reddit, Buffer & Flipboard

Content Generation Idea Reddit, Buffer & Flipboard

So you probably all know about Reddit by now. But you might not be so aware or familiar with Buffer and Flipboard? And here I want to talk a little about these three giant Internet sites and how you can utilize all of them for coming up an almost unlimited amount of content generation ideas.

Reddit

Reddit is just a truly phenomenal site. It has millions of users using it every day for some purpose or another and it's known as the "Frontpage of the Internet". On Reddit you can discover virtually anything and everything. And that includes virtually anything and everything when it comes to using it to come up with content ideas as well. And all you really need to do is go onto Reddit.com and then perform a search on the site for keywords that are related to your industry.

From here you'll be able to see what kinds of things people in your industry are sharing and talking about. Just look at those posts and submissions that have the most engagement on them. Those that have the most comments on them. These will often be packed full of things you can cover in your new content.

Buffer

If you haven't discovered Buffer yet then you can consider this a gift by way of a recommendation. Because Buffer.com is a social media site that's set up for doing one thing, sharing. And just like you share your content articles on placs like Facebook and Twitter etc. You should also be using Buffer for this reason too. And you can bet that if you are (or aren't) your competitors are! At least some of them. Now you can't really search on Buffer for stuff, but you can share your content articles on it, links and things. And then you can look back over this after about a week or a month or so and you'll see which of those posts and updates you made on it were the most popular. From this you can see what your followers most like that you're sharing.

Of course, in order to make this possible, you will need to be active on Buffer and build up your followers list. And that isn't going to happen much overnight. So it's one of those things that can work out in time the more you use it. Where the more followers you have, the more activity and engagement your posts and shares will get and this is what you can look into for insight and ideas.

Flipboard

Now Flipboard is sort of like Pinterest except that it's not so much for pinning images but rather for the sharing and curating of content of all kinds. And if you don't have a Flipboard.com account already then you should make one now. You can sign up with Twitter, Facebook or Google+. But you don't need an account to use it in the way I'll tell you to. And that way really is just going onto Flipboard and then searching it using the search box at the top. Search for keywords related to your niche and industry.

Look for those industry leaders and influentials and see what it is they're sharing on there. Look at them in more detail and look at those that have a lot of engagement on them. Not only will this give you ideas for coming up with content but you'll get to learn about what your targeted audience most care about too.

Do a search for something like "dog training" and you'll be presented with topics that use those keywords in them as well as magazines on those things which you can subscribe to. These Flipboard magazines are also full of a wealth of content generation ideas. And in the same search you can also follow people in that niche in which to follow as well. Go ahead and follow them, they may even follow back.

And that's basically how you can utilize Reddit, Buffer and Flipboard for content generation ideas.

Do you use any of these sites for this reason?

What other ways can you use them for content generation ideas?