Blogging Tips

Items to keep in mind while blogging and building your digial footprint:

• Be Creative
• Keep it REAL...you are the expert of your craft, and remember that is your brand!
• Add video or podcast about yourself or your talent
• Keep post interesting
• Get into a routine, make it a part of your day
• Personalize your blog
• Spell check your post
• Think about adding Google AdSense Advertisements, if your blog is popular you may start recieving money
• Don't get discourage if you do not have followers or visitors sometimes it takes weeks to months to get noticed in this big audience
• Pictures are a great idea.......be visual
• Journal your thoughts and reflections of your works, stories that reach out to people
• To make your blog popular visit other blogs with similar topics and make comments that make them want to check out your blog
• Use attention getting titles
• Promote your URL everywhere, in your email signature, newsletters, advertisements, bussiness cards, twitter, facebook, website, etc.
• Update OFTEN....add new audio, video clips, podcast,and post
• Remember you want to be DIFFERENT!

Why Blog?

A blog can reach up to over millions readers, blogs give everyone a voice. Blogs allow you the options to communicate, network, quickly publish to your subscribers items about your products. The key is to find the blog that you feel comfortable with using. There are a number of blogging providers both free or paid services the most popular seem to be Blogger and WordPress.

Once you have your blog set up....advertise and connect, sent your URL out in emails to current customers and place the URL on your stationary business cards, and website.

Welcome!

We are so glad you are all here today!
Hopefully you will walk always from this session today ready to blog your hearts out! :)