How do you come up with new topics?

[Shawn Gossman]

I do a number of different things.

For starters, I go to other forums that share the same niche and filter posts to show the most viewed or replied posts. I take those ideas and create topics off them in my own words but I always try to add something to make it unique. This is a great way to get popular topics on your forum. You just need to make sure the topic isn't outdated which many of them are.

I read articles around the niche and take each section of the article to create a topic about it. If you read a lot of articles, you can get a lot of ideas.

I post about niche industry news and updates in the markets.

I also do pillar content...

I take my main niche topic and create sub-topics, then I create sub-topics of sub-topics and sub-topics of those. The deeper sub-topics you go, the more ideas you can generate.

What tactics do you folks use to gain new ideas to create content about on your forum?

 

[Elseb]

It can be difficult at times but I do look at other forums and news websites to get inspiration. They generally help the most I find.