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Other Ways to Attract people to you Blog
Add your blog posts to your Facebook business page.With the NetworkedBlogs application, your blog posts will appear on your Facebook business page with no additional work from you, increasing your reach and making your business page more rich with content.
Add your blog posts to your LinkedIn profile.If your blog is on WordPress or TypePad, you can have your most recent blog posts appear on your profile. You’ll be able to do this through the Application Directory under the More navigation tab.Tweet out your blog posts.
Leave intelligent comments on other blogs.Leaving a comment on another blog will create a link back to your blog (or any other URL you specify). Just make sure it adds to the conversation, otherwise you may find that the blog owner deletes your comment with extreme prejudice.
Focus your activities on influential blogs within your industry, but don’t ignore well-written blogs that may not have much readership…yet. To paraphrase Liz Strauss, sometimes little bloggers grow up.
Don’t give up.It takes a while to develop a readership and drive a strong number of people to your blog on a regular basis. If you want to use a blog to grow your business, you need to commit to the process. I’d recommend planning on writing 2 – 3 blog posts a week forsix monthsbefore giving up. These posts don’t need to be long; we’re addicted to short form content, so 300 – 500 words is fine.
Every blog post you write adds to the overall value of your blog and your online visibility, so keep at it!
Add your blog posts to your LinkedIn profile.If your blog is on WordPress or TypePad, you can have your most recent blog posts appear on your profile. You’ll be able to do this through the Application Directory under the More navigation tab.Tweet out your blog posts.
Leave intelligent comments on other blogs.Leaving a comment on another blog will create a link back to your blog (or any other URL you specify). Just make sure it adds to the conversation, otherwise you may find that the blog owner deletes your comment with extreme prejudice.
Focus your activities on influential blogs within your industry, but don’t ignore well-written blogs that may not have much readership…yet. To paraphrase Liz Strauss, sometimes little bloggers grow up.
Don’t give up.It takes a while to develop a readership and drive a strong number of people to your blog on a regular basis. If you want to use a blog to grow your business, you need to commit to the process. I’d recommend planning on writing 2 – 3 blog posts a week forsix monthsbefore giving up. These posts don’t need to be long; we’re addicted to short form content, so 300 – 500 words is fine.
Every blog post you write adds to the overall value of your blog and your online visibility, so keep at it!
Second Way to Attract People to you Blog
2. Give (some of) your best work away for free.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
*.the first chapter of your novel (or even an entire novella)
*.a free report or e-book, full of insanely useful information
*.one of the best tracks from your album
*.a design template
*.high-resolution images
*.a series of tutorials
*.videos that anyone can embed in their site
Use a Creative Commonslicense to make it clear what people are allowed to do with the work. And make sure it’s something genuinely valuable. If you feel slightly uncomfortable about giving away something so good, you’re on the right track. Otherwise, why would anyone get excited enough to tell their friends?But don’t give away the farm. Make sure you have plenty in reserve — products, services, artworks — for the folks who want to take things further and buy from you.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
*.the first chapter of your novel (or even an entire novella)
*.a free report or e-book, full of insanely useful information
*.one of the best tracks from your album
*.a design template
*.high-resolution images
*.a series of tutorials
*.videos that anyone can embed in their site
Use a Creative Commonslicense to make it clear what people are allowed to do with the work. And make sure it’s something genuinely valuable. If you feel slightly uncomfortable about giving away something so good, you’re on the right track. Otherwise, why would anyone get excited enough to tell their friends?But don’t give away the farm. Make sure you have plenty in reserve — products, services, artworks — for the folks who want to take things further and buy from you.
Creative ways to Attract people to you Blog
This is one of the most common questions I hear from clients, frustrated at the lack of business their website brings them.
Often, there isn’t much wrong with the site iteslf — it’s professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored.Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it’s eminently doable — as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
*.“Here’s how I made it” – with pictures and/or video. Like thisor thisor this.
*.“Here’s what inspired it” – if you like it, chances are your audience will like it too. Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s how you can make one like it.” Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s a gadget that makes my work better (and could help you too).” Like this.
Instead of burying your opinions in long paragraphs of diary-style ‘musings’, put them out there loud and clear:
*.Devote an entire blog post to nailing ONE idea.
*.Start with a compelling headline.
*.Ask yourself ‘So what? Why should anyone care?’ — and make that the start of the post.
*.Give concrete examples.
*.Invite comments by ending with a question.
*.For example: I’m a designer. Use me better.
And don’t forget to ask for the subscription! Repeat visitors are the best visitors, so one of your goals is to build an audience of loyal subscribers. Ask people to subscribe and offer an email option to make it easy.
Often, there isn’t much wrong with the site iteslf — it’s professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored.Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it’s eminently doable — as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
*.“Here’s how I made it” – with pictures and/or video. Like thisor thisor this.
*.“Here’s what inspired it” – if you like it, chances are your audience will like it too. Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s how you can make one like it.” Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s a gadget that makes my work better (and could help you too).” Like this.
Instead of burying your opinions in long paragraphs of diary-style ‘musings’, put them out there loud and clear:
*.Devote an entire blog post to nailing ONE idea.
*.Start with a compelling headline.
*.Ask yourself ‘So what? Why should anyone care?’ — and make that the start of the post.
*.Give concrete examples.
*.Invite comments by ending with a question.
*.For example: I’m a designer. Use me better.
And don’t forget to ask for the subscription! Repeat visitors are the best visitors, so one of your goals is to build an audience of loyal subscribers. Ask people to subscribe and offer an email option to make it easy.
Words Arrangement
Presentation of wording. If you write everything in one big paragraph it is ugly, it is boring, and it will put people to sleep. Look at this article I’m writing right now. Hopefully you find the presentation of the article a little appealing (if you don’t than go fly a kite!), the use of bold, numbering, underline, italics, etc… It is much easier for someone to read. In fact, look at the product page on Amazon.com and see how they lay out their page. They are pro’s right? So take some time to lay out your text in an appealing way.
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