By Barry J McDonald

Here are a 6 ways you can repurpose your blog posts, some of which are instant with no extra work needed.

1 – Twitter tools – This is a great plugin for all of you that use a Wordpress blog. You simply install the plugin first, fill in your Twitter login details (you need a twitter first) and that’s it. Now every time you post something new to your blog it automatically updates your Twitter account with a Tweet.

2 – Odiogo – This is also another great Wordpress plugin that I use on this blog. First you need to install the plugin and then open up an account with Odiogo. Odiogo then takes the last 10 blog posts from your RSS feed and turns them into audio. Your blog readers then can either listen, download an mp3 of the article or add it to their iTunes software.

3 – If you have any squidoo lens or similar sites (on the same topic as your blog) why not add your RSS feed to them. This way you blog posts travel out further than your blog and it helps keep those other sites up to date with fresh content which the search engines love.

4 – Like (tip 3) why not take the same RSS feed and sign up for an account at ShareAPost.com. ShareAPost is a site where you allow other blog users to use your content on their blogs. Although not all your blog posts may be used, there are times when you article can be found on other blogs which then send free traffic back to your blog.

5 – After a month if you’ve been posting everyday you should have around 30 posts. Why not take those posts and package the together into a small monthly report of content from your blog. You could give this away free to draw traffic to your blog and you could also put either affiliate products or details of your own products inside.

6 – If your blog is on one topic you will find that some blog posts are closely related to each other. Why not take some of your posts and offer them in an e-course as a way to help build your list and possibly make money recommending some products at the same time.

We’re told by some of the big names in the internet marketing game that if we really want to get a bigger audience you need to have a presence on the social marketing sites like FaceBook, MySpace, etc.

But this can cause problems with so many social bookmarking sites on the internet now it can be very easy to either

-         Get overwhelmed and just give up on using them.

-         Spend so much time on them that they distract you from your business and you end up getting nothing done.

But, not with Twitter.

If you don’t know what Twitter is you can find more posts on this blog about the benefits and why you should be using Twitter.

Now, you may be forgiven to think that this site is also going to take a chunk of your time also but no, there’s a plugin that I use called “Twitter Tools” that allows me to add to my Twitter Account without ever going to it.

The beauty of the Twitter Tools plugin is that when I push the “Publish” button to add my post to my blog the plugin automatically adds a Tweet to my Twitter account at exact same time with me doing anything else.

To use this plugin you’ll need to be using a “Wordpress” blog and you’ll need a Twitter account (which is very easy to set up). Just download the plugin from the Twitter Tool link above and install it to your blog.

When you first install it you’ll see this

You’ll need to put in your Twitter login details and then select which options you’d like. For example, do you want your twitter posts to come back to your blog as a post or do you want to set up a widget in your side bar made up of your twitter posts etc. See what works best for you.

So if I take this post as an example here’s this post in the admin area.

And when I push the publish button my twitter account is updated automatically

….Easy peasy!