I studied Dickie Bush’s advice– and generated 60 content ideas in 60 minutes
That’s quite a popular name if you’re a creator or writer — especially on Twitter.
Dickie Bush is one of the creators of ship 30 for 30. A cohort based writing course talked about at great length on the bird app.
But let’s cut to the chase. Most writers struggle with generating ideas to put on paper. There’s just no way to always have ideas for your next content.
It could get worse when you’re trying to brainstorm ideas for clients on a tight deadline. Believe me, I’ve been there — creating these ideas is a chore..or at least, it was for me.
That’s why I’ll be reviewing this consistent content idea generator framework by Dickie Bush which he posted on Twitter. And explain how I got a hold of so many ideas for the first time — in forever.
His advice revolved around focusing your content on things you’ve solved over the last two years. Two years is a far stretch, yes.
And luckily (someone without experience), can focus on what they’ve learned over two years — and not problems they’ve solved.
A few ideas for you:
- Learned how to write superb copy
- In Depth Data Science knowledge
- How to paint
- Building an eCommerce business
There’s just something you must have gotten, some acquired knowledge that could be put down on a piece of paper. So it’s time to work your brain and see what you can find.
I came up with a few:
- Building a reading habit
- Learning to write
- Sending good Upwork proposals
- Growing and productivity frameworks
Now don’t get too excited. Because no matter how much this is, you’d have to pick just 3 which he called “THE BUCKET LIST”
These 3 are the three musketeers of your massive ideas.
The ones that felt just right when you wrote them down. Couple of ways I knew what mine was:
- I wrote them down without much thinking
- I could already picture a few ideas just by writing them down
- It just felt right
Now that’s out of the way, it’s time to be specific.
Picture being specific as niching down hard with what you’re extremely familiar with. It’s also another way to get a particular group of an audience engaged with your content.
I have tried out specificity in the past, and it works like a charm.
And integrates the 4As into its framework.
Now, what’s the 4A. He mentioned this as the final step in generating so many ideas.
These are the 4As he mentioned — but with my descriptions
- Actionable: From my ideas and content spree over the past two weeks, these ones are the most popular. They are more like tutorial oriented content leaving the reader with an idea on what to do next — or how to do it.
- Analytics: They spring out figures and statistics necessary to back something up
- Aspirational: These could be in the form of mistakes and ideas. Just something to make you feel like “you can do it” through well written failure or success stories and life lessons.
- Anthropological: From experience, these focus on why people feel the way they do. The fear associated with not trying to find a solution even though they need one. And why they need one ASAP
This was the surprising outcome for just one bucket list.
From there, I pick 3 every week to work on. And random ones can just pop in any time of the week (which I jot down)
However, He advised picking just 3, and the market feedback (comments and engagements) will help you get more ideas worth writing down.
But as a last resort(when out of ideas from engagements), I can move back to this bucket list and pick 3 more for the week.
That’s how I manage to be flooded with ideas to last a month.
If you’ve been seeking a perfect strategy to elevate your content game, this is a one way free ticket.
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