Blog Your Bar Stories to Get Comments

The first weeks of blogging  generally suck, because of a lack of attention. I want to help you getting over those weeks and get comments from your visitors instantly. Next to writing this blogging crash course, I’ll also give tips in separate posts like this one. And always with an example.

Let’s start with inspiration for stories. How do you write articles that people find interesting? The answer is actually quite simple: tell the stories you used to tell in bars while having drinks with friends. Those are your best ones.

That’s exactly what my buddy Renato Valdés Olmos did. He’s a designer from Amsterdam who has his own agency and a start-up with which he wants to kill business cards. Although he’s incredibly busy, Renato recently started a blog. I loved his first three stories.

Renato (l) and me. Photo by Steven van Wel

Not that I hadn’t heard those stories before. I remember Renato’s last story from a binge drinking session in October 2008. At some point he said: ,,Pull my skin”. Which I happily did. The skin of his arm was incredibly flexible. ,,That’s because I lost a helluva lot pounds”, Renato said. Then he showed me a pic on his driver’s license. The difference was stunning. He used to be seriously overweight and did not even remotely look like the handsome chap who I was getting drunk with.

13 months later, Renato wrote down the story for his blog. It’s only his third article so far, yet it already attracted 30 comments from visitors.

So whenever your blog needs a boost, write down the best stories of your life. And don’t forget to include what other people can learn from it. Renato for example, posted some no-nonsense tips about how to lose weight.

What’s going to be the first bar story featured on your blog?

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