How to Create 5 Pieces of Content from a Single Blog Post

Learn how a blog can help you create five additional pieces of content and drive traffic to your subscription box website.

Content strategy. Content planning. Content creation. You know how important content is to your subscription box business. You know consistently putting out quality content is the best way to build your audience. And you know quality content helps your ideal customer find you - hello SEO - and builds the know/like/trust factor with your existing audience. In short, content matters. 

Planning and creating content takes time. It can seem overwhelming, especially if you don’t have a strategy. Or if you’re not taking advantage of opportunities to repurpose content you’ve already created into other, super valuable opportunities to connect with your audience. 

Today I want to talk to you about five pieces of content you can create from one hero piece of content - a single blog post. Take the time to write a blog post that serves your audience and then put that blog post to work for you! 

1. Weekly emails. 

We’ve talked about how important your email list is to your subscription box business. These are the people who have said, “Yes, I’m interested in learning more about you.” These are the people you need to serve, nurture, and connect with so that when it’s time to launch your subscription box, they’re not just ready to buy, they’re excited about buying. This blog post goes into detail about what you can email your list every week - and yes, you should be emailing them every week! 

The number one question business owners have when it comes to email marketing is, “What do I say?” Not knowing what to write in the email stops a lot of business owners from sending anything at all. 

This is where the blog post starts acting like the hero it is. If you have a gluten-free baking subscription box, you could write a blog post about five gluten-free breakfast baked goods. From that, you can write five emails, each one highlighting one of the baked goods - providing a recipe or talking about a specialized ingredient. 

Each of those five emails provides value to your audience, establishes you as the expert, and takes almost no time to write since you’ve already written the blog! 

2. Weekly LIVES.  

There is no better way to connect - truly connect - with your online audience than by going LIVE on Facebook or Instagram. And yes, I know how hard it can be when you’re just getting started. There is something about being live on camera with an audience you can’t see that scares a lot of us. It used to scare me, too. 

But it’s so important. I can’t let you off the hook when it comes to LIVES. What I can do is offer tips and strategies to help make it a little easier to get started. This blog post will help. 

When we talk about going LIVE inside Launch Your Box, the first objection members give is that they don’t know what to talk about. Again, here comes that hero - your blog. 

The topic of your blog makes a great topic for a LIVE. Every month, I write a style-guide blog for my T-Shirt Club subscription. I style that month’s cute tee in five different ways, showing my audience how versatile it is and how many different looks can be made centered around that one tee. I can do the same thing on a LIVE, sharing those same looks with my online audience, engaging with them in the comments, and having fun with them. 

I can even take the blog post you’re reading right now and use it as source material for one of my Monday Momentum LIVES on my How to Start a Subscription Box page! 

3. Social media posts.  

In order for your social media strategy to work, you have to be consistent. That means posting multiple times a week, every week. I actually recommend you post a few times a day every day. 

That sounds like a LOT of content, I’m sure. And if you’re sitting down to create your posts without a plan, it will seem like a lot. But if you start with that hero piece of content - that blog - and draw ideas for your social media posts from it, posting won’t seem like such a daunting task. 

Remember my t-shirt styling guide blog? As I’m taking photos of each of the looks, I’m also creating a social media post or two that goes with each picture. If I style that tee five different ways, that’s at least five different posts that come from it. 

Our gluten-free baking subscription box owner can use the blog about breakfast baked goods to create several posts. Each baked good can star in its own series of posts. Think of all the social media posts that can be created from those five baked goods! Behind the scenes as they’re being baked, serving suggestions, family members enjoying them, etc. 

4. Pinterest pins.  

Pinterest is a HUGE search engine. It is also the number two source of traffic to my retail website. People go to Pinterest to search for all kinds of things. Their searches can lead them to one of your blog posts which then leads them to all you offer on your website, including your subscription box. 

Every time you write a blog, you need to create pins for that blog. 

5. Instagram reels and TikTok videos.  

Short video is where it’s at right now. Facebook and Instagram are asking for it, TikTok is all about it, and your audience wants it. Short, attention-grabbing videos that teach and entertain. 

Where can you get ideas for all these videos? From that hero blog post, of course. 

A DIY subscription box owner might write a blog talking about five storage solutions for craft supplies. Every crafter faces the struggle of how and where to keep all the things she needs for her hobby (and all the things she doesn’t need but couldn’t resist buying). 

Think about how much fun that subscription box owner could have creating reels and TikToks showing off those five storage solutions. There are endless possibilities to demonstrate, go behind the scenes, and just have fun. 

Imagine all the great before and after videos she could make. Don’t forget to add trending music and some fun effects! 

I have two amazing episodes of the Launch Your Box podcast I want you to listen to! One shares tips and strategies for creating great short videos and the other teaches you how to harness the power of TikTok. Check out episode 37 and episode 75.

Creating content is vitally important to the success of your subscription box business, from the time you first start building your audience. It can seem daunting if you don’t have a well-thought-out, efficient strategy that involves repurposing content. Start with a main piece of content - like a blog post - and let it feed the rest of your content machine. 

Check out this blog post to learn more about how a simple blog post can act as a superhero in your subscription box business.