If you attend a speech, event, show, or other organized event, take along a notepad. They are great fodder for blog ideas. I sat in a dinner once frantically writing on the back of my own business card, taking notes as great ideas for blog posts whipped past. It fueled one blog for weeks!

I find that I usually need a notepad most when I forgot it. A Palm, or a laptop also works. But take SOMETHING!

Ideas tend to come on whims, and if you don’t record them, they slip away. You can only remember so many at one time.

Get onto a mailing list for a promo company, and eventually they’ll send you a sample notepad - that’s one way to get a nice one. Otherwise just go purchase a cheap one that you feel like you can stand using. Pen attached is helpful!  Tuck it into your purse, or stow it in a pocket every time you go somewhere that you might encounter some good ideas.

Writing ideas down for later is one of the things that has saved my sanity in blogging!