Books
Books are another great but affordable source of blogging inspiration. For example, I’ve recently picked up a copy of The Big Moo edited by Seth Godin with contributions from 33 people including Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban, and several other great business minds. The entries are very short and probably would all make great posts but the bigger point is that they inspire me. They stir up my vision of having a remarkable blog and immediately get me thinking about different ways to achieve that goal. The book Good to Great is another example. While reading it you can’t help but think about how you can transform whatever it is you’re doing right now into something great. The same goes to Steve Kaplan’s Be the Elephant. Granted my blog doesn’t exactly match the types of businesses he talks about, but the principles drive me to want to do something right now to improve my blog.