How are you Going to Market Your Blog?
A blog is a marketing tool, but it in turn needs to be marketed, especially if one of your goals to to reach out to a new audience. There are several hundred new blogs created every day and if yours is to stand out, you’ll need to market it.
· Allow readers to subscribe by e-mail. Add a Feedburner signup to your blog.
· Mention your blog in your newsletter. Include snippets from your blog posts and a link to the e-mail option for your blog
· Once a month, send out a newsletter with your best blog posts from the past month. Only reproduce the first paragraph in the newsletter, then include a link to your blog to read the rest of the article. While there, the may discover another article they liked.
· Get a Twitter account and start following your target audience. Do a keyword search on author, or internet marketer. Follow a few people. Check for an well known expert in your field and follow them. People on Twitter will usually follow you back. Post three of four times a week, a link to someone else’s article, some news, insight and then tweet when you post to your blog.
Next time: Where Will I Find Material for my Blog?
Tip featured by Bonnie Sainsbury | Web Marketing Coach | www.techcoachtips.com