What's your creative process?

[kara_susvilla]

Having a process also allows you to think of ideas that may not be easily apparent. What's one thing you do to help come up with new ideas? How can you incorporate this into a repeatable framework (for yourself as well as those you collaborate with)?

*To learn more about this, check out the Generating Content Ideas lesson via HubSpot Academy. 

[SamWrites]

One thing I often do is read competitor and industry blogs and articles to help spark topic ideas.

[SBenjamin4]

It starts with getting excited about what you are writing about.

[TuongVi3103Tran]

My creative process begins by coming up with original ideas and scheduling frequent brainstorming sessions with partners or my team. To create ideas, use techniques like mind mapping, word association, or stimulation. Encourage open-mindedness and adaptationability, and develop a concept by adding your own insights. I write to demonstrate my own conceptual analysis and thought processes. It could improve my critical thinking and help me communicate my ideas to others by using this framework.

[DeeEscolor]

When I wake up in the morning, first of all, I just take a bath and make a coffee while smoking, and went to the room to take a 10 minutes meditation, do some journaling and read books so my brain exercise, that's how I start my daily creative process.  

[ChLindström]

I take a walk, talk to others or step out of my normal space.

[HZakaria6]

I normally listen to music and in the process, everything that I  was thinking about will start to make sense.

[UkuleleClare]

I take a walk. I throw a lot of ideas together and when I hit a blank spot, I know that something is on the way but I can never rush the shy creature that it sometimes is.

[NTurner1]

I haven't professionally created content before, so I don't have a process or any steps yet. After I finish the content marketing certification, I'm going to create my buyer persona's and then I'll probably try to start by consuming as much content as I possibly can relevant to them and their potential interests. 

[Rainmaker638]

I usually take inspiration from current events that are making the news, more like jumping on a trend. If there's a new challenge I'll just use it to drive conversation towards my brand. At other times I research emerging trends and technologies and try to find a way to position my brand well to take advantage of the opportunities.

[TobyMartins]

Research! Research!! Research!!! I have a period in the day I just sit quiet and browse my brain for inspiration. I also have book pages around, because, sometimes, all I need to kick start my inspiration may be just one word or an idea from the pages I see around. I also make use of youtube, google, pinterest. 

[LObermeyer8]

I look at trends in Marketing Charts.com, google trends for words around small business and SB marketing. I also gain inspiration when researching topics in my field that interest me. But, now, I will look for topics that would interest my Buyer Persona(s). 

[A0]

Overthinking 🤣.

[YourBrvnd]

😂

[AshPMcK]

I seem to come up with ideas easily only because I look at life like art. Everything in life is art, when you see the beauty in everything you also see that there is a story to tell. I also like to use ideas from dreams there is so many great ideas that comes from my dream. Another thing that I like to use is listening to what subject keeps popping up in my life and then creating something around that topic. 

[RGorumba]

My process always starts with visualization. I draw and sketch my imagination of how I want it to appear. After that comes the topic and title research. I always try to look for other content online for inspiration especially when I am finding it hard to start from scratch. I make different versions and I make other people vote and critic which piece is better to use.

[EHansen]

I'll use my Nerdy 30 birthday invite from a few as an example. I knew I wanted the party to be 90s themed (born in the 90s). We decided to have it at a retro arcade/pinball hall and so I had to figure out how to convey that message. I wrote out ideas for design and then sketched. I finally landed on my husband and I dressing up in 90s attire in front of our Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet and making it look like it was a hand made invite on a torn notebook paper.

[YourBrvnd]

@EHansen This is really great!! 

[Nugo]

This might sound creepy but it helps me. I take a walk to a public space, it could be a park, or a restaurant and I pay attention to everyone around me. Watch how they converse, how they react to situations, I mostly just soak it all in and let everything around me speak to me. Before heading to this park, I must have already gathered information about what I want to write about. My process takes my mind off the idea and pops up something I wasn't considering.

[SEgah]

 I try as much as I can to calm my nerves , understand what the subject matter is; this gives me a sense of clear direction to source for information from the appropriate channels. Eventually, this helps me come up with news ideas

[Isadoraamelia8]

Watching youtube videos, talkinh with people with different group and perspective, and of course eagerly searching it online can help me with new ideas

[Asma7asn]

What's your creative process?

Brainstorming and getting inspiration from various sources. Then, researched to deepen my understanding of the topic. Use mind mapping to organize my thoughts and generate new connections and insights.