Writing a good blog post is hard. I think everyone will agree with me and if you want to succeed, you need to write tons of blog posts every single month. Now, wouldn’t it be great, if all that it took to make it online would be one blog post? One single blog post, which ranks on the first page of Google and gets you all the traffic you need. http://easym6.com/2014/07/09/repurposing-content/

1. Why Repurposing Content Is a Must If
You Don’t Want To Get Insane
Writing a good blog post is hard. I think everyone will agree with me and if you want to succeed, you need to write tons of blog posts every single month.
Now, wouldn’t it be great, if all that it took to make it online would be one blog post? One single blog post, which ranks on the first page of Google and gets you all the traffic you need.
Well, you can just dream about it. If you want to go big, you need to create content consistently. You need to be working your ass off, if you want to make money. Those
rankings aren’t achieved easily and traffic doesn’t just start coming without you putting the hard work first.
Your Head Will Explode If It Has To Create
Any More Content
If you really want to succeed, you need to publish a lot and by that I mean daily. I remember last summer I went a little bit crazy and started publishing multiple posts a day,
even up to 4.
Writing wasn’t the hardest part – creating the ideas was. Besides spending half of the day writing, I also spent a lot of time reading and watching videos so, I would have new ideas for
the next content piece. My mind was working harder than when I’m solving sudoku and I had to come up with the ideas every single day. A routine like this can drive you nuts.
Anyways, I realize that publishing daily can be a stretch for you, but what are the alternatives? Publishing weekly or monthly, when inspiration comes, but that will delay your success
exponentially.
Hiring someone to write for you? But you probably don’t have a budget, because you are here to earn money, not spend money. Stick with publishing daily, but risk getting insane?
There’s a Limit to How Much Content You
Can Create

2. Most people go with the last plan, publishing daily, even though it can be harmful for their mental health, but it definitely is the best choice and if you decide to go that route, soon
you will notice the same problem as I did, you will struggle with constantly coming up with new content ideas.
Believe me this will happen and when it happens what are you planning to do? Force yourself to create new ideas?
Well, I have a better idea, let’s look at your previous content and see are you fully leveraging it to get the most amount of traffic. Chances are that you aren’t.
You Want More Traffic, Right?
Now, that’s bad, because you spend so much time creating the content, but you don’t squeeze everything out of it. You do want more traffic, right?
You could wishfully think that, if you build it, they will come. Meaning, if you create enough content, Google will rank you high and you will get traffic. The problem is, it can take very
very long until it does and then again after a Google update the traffic can disappear and you’ll be left wondering what was wrong.
Repurpose Your Content or Risk Getting
Insane
The solution is repurposing your content. You do the hard work by creating content, it would make sense to put in a little bit of effort to repurpose it. To spread the content wider and
get more traffic.
This is also good for your mental health, because you don’t need to come up with new content. You just need to convert the same content into different formats.
Conquer Multiple Platforms
So, how does repurposing work? Let’s say you write a really good blog post, which is very well researched, decent in length and provides a ton of value to the reader. You click publish.
You then promote the post to your social media profiles and you get a little bit of traffic.
What you would normally do is start writing a new blog post and repeat the whole process again to get more traffic, but this time you will convert that post into other formats to
increase the reach of your content.
Down below I have listed the types of repurposing you can do to your content.
Videos
It’s super simple to convert a blog post into a video. There are several ways how you can do that:
• You can read the whole post in front of a camera. Now, if you just read from a paper it’s going to look quite boring so, it’s better to tell just the essence of the content in the video.
• If you are afraid of the camera that’s not a problem either. Create slides for the content and then give your presentation.
• You are afraid of the camera and you hate your voice? Again, not a problem. You can outsource your video creation.
Once you have your video created, you then upload it to sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Metacafe for extra reach.
Slide Presentations or PDFs
It’s not hard to convert your content into slides or just a simple PDF document. You can use software like open office, or Google slides and Google docs. All free software to help you
convert your content into different formats.
Now, if you are creating slides, then you will want to leave only the essentials of your content. You want your slides to be short and engaging, but still provide great value
through the content and if you only want to convert your post into a document, you just need to make sure it’s easy to read.
If you previously had created a presentation for the video creation you can use that as well.
Once you have the content, you then want to share it on sites like SlideShare and Scribd. There are a ton more similar sites, but these will get you the best results and won’t overwhelm
you.
Audio
So, you shot that video? You can easily convert it into a mp3 file, or if you haven’t, use a recording software and read your content. I recommend using a free tool called Audacity.
Once you have that mp3 file you can share it on iTunes or SoundCloud for extra exposure.
Infographics
Honestly this one is a bit complicated. You need to have design skills to create an infographic.

3. Now, there are free tools like Pixlr, but it takes time to figure them out. For most the best bet would be to outsource the creation of infographics, but it can be rather expensive.
Either way, if you decide to create one, you can share it on Visually.
Social Media
Social media sites are also a form of content repurposing. Most people view them only as a form of sharing their links, but that doesn’t get very good results.
Obviously, you don’t want to paste in your whole article on Facebook or Google+. You want to share small pieces – the golden nuggets out of your content and start conversations with
people in turn building your following.
So, think about how you are sharing your content on social media right now and how you could improve that. You can create several social media posts from a single blog post.
Summary
Now, you don’t necessarily want to repurpose your content into every single format, you can choose two or three, but of course the more the better.
Also, it doesn’t really matter what you create first you can still repurpose it, meaning that you can turn an article into a video as well as a video into an article etc.
You definitely want to start repurposing, because you will widen your reach. You will get traffic from various sources and as I said, you already did the hard creative work by creating
content. Repurposing is the easy part and it gives you the same benefits as new content.
Are you actively repurposing your content? What formats of content do you usually create? Let me know in the comments below.
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