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25 Tactics to Promote Your Blog via Facebook and Twitter
Promoting your blog is the most important of the five Ps of blogging. Without getting the word out about your blog, your content will never maximize its reach. To this end, leverage Facebook and Twitter to support your promotional blog activities. Here are twenty-five actionable tactics to help you use Facebook and Twitter to promote your blog.
Tags: blogchat, Facebook, Hashtag, Ian Cleary, Jon Loomer, Mobile, Twitter
7 Tips To Keep Your Blog Going For The Long Run
Despite the rush to prepare and hunker down as Winter Storm Nemo blew through the northeast, drivers were stranded and businesses closed. Similarly your blog can be the victim of a storm. Once you decide to publish a blog and build an audience you’ve created a media entity with a responsibility to your readers and community to keep a regular publication schedule. Once you stop, your blog is at risk of freezing over because it’s easy to tell yourself it’s only another day and no one will notice. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
23 Tactics to Improve Blog Results Without Blogging
Most bloggers think that all they need to do to succeed is to write amazing blog posts and hit “Publish”. To maximize your blog’s results towards achieving your goals, you must think outside the blog. Here are twenty-three tactics to improve your blog’s results by thinking outside the blog. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: blogchat, Social Media
12 Attributes of a Successful Content Curation Strategy
At its core, content curation is like a great editor or blogger who brings his unique taste and understanding of his target audience to his selection of the best content for his readers. He provides context for the content so that it’s more than collection of information. Here are 3 reasons you need content curation in your content marketing strategy and 12 attributes of a successful content curations strategy.
13 Writing Tips To Make You A Better Blogger
Writing, like any other skill can be learned. It requires practice to achieve proficiency. While many of us are taught in school that to write well you must follow a set of rules, the reality is that writing requires practice. Tell your writing demons to be quiet since the secret to being a better blogger is to write more blog blog posts. Here are thirteen tips to help guide your writing process to make you a better blogger. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: blogchat, Mack Collier, Stephen Covey
360 Degree Branding Meets IRL Events [& 7 Ways to Maximize The Impact!]
Brands represent a person, product or business’ identity. This makes them a critical marketing component. Encompassing a consistent set of intangibles, each brand has an associated perceived value that extends online, offline and in real life. As a marketer, do you maximize the 360 degree branding impact of real life events? If not, here are seven tips on to integrate your branding into real life events. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: blogchat, events, IRL, Joe Pulizzi, Lee Odden, Mack Collier, Meetup
20 Tips to Build Your Blog Audience From Scratch
“I’ve been blogging for a period of time but no one’s reading my blog” is a refrain I often hear on BlogChat. Help, how do I get my blog to take off? Write great content is often the given answer. By itself, however, writing great content on a regular basis isn’t enough to build an audience! You need to take a marketer’s approach. Think of your blog as a media entity you need to promote to create a vibrant community.
To this end, you must know what you want your blog to achieve and who your prospective audience is. If you’re starting from scratch, here’s 20 tips to build an audience.
Tags: blog audience, blogchat, Tips
20 Most Useful Blog Plugins For Non-Geeks
Blog plugins are short pieces of programming code that add a specific set of features to your blog. While there’s a wide variety of blog plug-ins available, here are twenty of the most useful plug-ins explained in plain English for non-geeks.
Tags: blogchat, Larry Aronson, Plug-in, SEO, WordPress
21 Tips to Get Your Blog Noticed Now
Is your blog off the map? Just as Columbus set out to discover a new route to the East Indies, you need to get your blog discovered amidst a sea of other blogs and content options. While Columbus had royal backing, unless you’ve got a kickass hook and/or break through branding, you’ve got to get out there and give people a reason to read your content. Here are twenty-one ways to help get your blog discovered. Some of them require more effort than others.
5 Ways To Earn Blogging Cred Without a Blog of Your Own
For most bloggers, the most direct way to acquire blogging credentials is to build a blog and start blogging. Like you, I never considered the alternatives until a digital/social media strategist colleague, with copywriting experience and a degree from a … Continue reading
Tags: Blog, blogchat, blogging cred, blogging credentials, Dave Winer
20 Blog How-Tos
Mayday is a boat’s distress signal. To celebrate May 1st, here’s a blogging 911 to give you the answers to the top twenty blogging questions. There’s useful blogging how-tos for both beginning and experienced bloggers.
13 Blogging Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
While good bloggers can make blogging look easy, the reality is that showing up at your computer on a regular basis with fresh ideas is hard work that involves more than just content creation. As the second anniversary of this blog approaches, here are thirteen lessons I’ve learned, either directly or indirectly.