Do You Keep Your Best Ideas For Yourself Or Your Clients?
I’m not sure whether it’s the time of year or the fact that I’m finding life particularly exciting at the moment (if you’re following me on Twitter, you’ll be aware that I’m considering relocating to London), but ideas are just flowing at the minute.
I’ve been on holiday for the past few days and by the time I came back, my iPhone’s notes app was packed full of ideas for articles, blog posts and a whole host of other musings.
When I got back, I opened up a new Word document and started typing. Half way through one of the blog posts I was particularly excited about, I took a break and whilst sipping on my coffee started to think about where I would use it.
I automatically thought of uploading it to one of my clients blogs, but then I thought should I keep it for here?
It was a great post. One of those that everyone can relate to and that everyone can have an opinion on. It would go down great on my client’s blog and would be very well received by it’s readers and my colleagues.
But Its Dan Smith is still a relatively new blog, so shouldn’t I be aiming to develop this?
After much deliberation, I decided to post it on my client’s blog. I think this was partly due to the fact that the piece was more focused on their audience, but I also believe it was also because I’ve only been working with the client for a few weeks and I’m in that ‘eager to impress’ stage.
Or it could be down to the fact that I have a habit of making sure everyone else is OK before I am. Too nice, perhaps?
That was the first time that I’ve had that thought, but I’m guessing it’s not going to be the last time.
Have you ever been in that situation where you’re not sure where to use your ideas? Is it better to utilize your best posts on your blog to develop your own business more or on your client’s blogs so to satisfy them more and help their business succeed, which could possibly result in more work for you?
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