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Denise over at Build a Better Blog created a post called “List Building Tip: Reward Your Subscribers”. This talks about the value of building a list of subscribers and ways to get people to subscribe. Blog subscribers are a valuable asset: these are the people that will read your blog over and over ~ they keep coming back! These loyal readers deserve to be rewarded. Read the article then come back and tell me your reward plan in the comments below!
You are not alone. RSS seems to confuse most business owners. It is simply a way to allow readers to subscribe to your blog and then your content is delivered automatically into their RSS reader. John Chow has broken the 100,000 RSS subscriber goal. He has written an article on the methods he used to get over 100,000 subscribers. I hope you get some great ideas of how you can also increase your subscribers. Enjoy How I Broke 100,000 RSS Readers by John Chow.
Here are 4 tips from Copywriter Roger Ebert – These are great tips that will help you when Blogging, creating marketing copy, or just in your daily communications.
Lesson in Human Nature: Bloggers Band TogetherI attended WordCamp (#wcpdx) for the first time this weekend. I have never attended any event in the past where Bloggers, Designers, Coders, and SEO Experts were all together in one place. It was way more than I expected. I expected to learn:
I did learn all of these things, but the best lessons were more intangible. I learned that in Portland there is a very close nit community of Bloggers and Tech people in general – and they all get along, talk to each other, and help each other out. There was people of all learning levels – from beginner to very advanced (Matt Mullenweg) and nobody felt “talked down to”. I am so used to tech people making the average person feel like an idiot – it was very refreshing to see the professionalism with all the attendees. I think everyone walked away form the WordCamp with new information and a desire to make WP better and get more out of their blogs. I left the conference knowing there are more people out there like me.
One of my favorite parts of Wordcamp was meeting some of my Twitter friends in person. Until this weekend these people were just online friends, now I can put the face to a personality and a real individual. Some of the people I met are:
This weekend was a great learning opportunity for improving my WordPress skills as well as my business skills. I will definitely be attending more of these events.
Dotty
I often get asked by business owners about Online marketing strategies. Many of my customers find information about MLM or Network Marketing when searching in Google for Online Marketing Strategies, and then ask me what a “real” business needs to be doing to drive Online traffic.
I am here to tell you – the 2 business models have no difference when it comes to Online marketing.
Here is a marketing strategy that I use in my business.
When you create your Blog post keep in mind that people generally skim blogs and remember to keep the post brief. Be sure to include lists and headings to make the post easier to read / skim. This also gives you an outline for a more in depth article for either EzineArticles, Squidoo, and Hubpages. After completing your post/articles go to HelloTxt.com and make an update referencing your post. This will send your message throughout the social sites that you participate in. Bookmarking your posts is best accomplished by participating in a Digg or Del.i.ous group so that you are not bookmarking (spamming) your own content. Bookmarking sites frown upon listing your own content and you risk the site deleting you account if you get caught bookmarking your own content.
All of these steps will help to drive traffic to your website or blog and it will also get more of your content listed in Google when people are searching for your topic. Be sure to do some deep linking to more of your content as well as relevant content produced by friends/colleagues.
Several of my customers have asked about Technorati and the Technorati Tags plugin. Technorati is the premier list of Blogs on the Internet. Claiming your Blog is the very least that needs to be done. As people favorite your Blog then you will gain authority in the Blogosphere. Jack Humphrey – Social Marketing Expert put together a “Technorati Strategy” for gaining authority with your blog. Visit this blog post and follow the instructions to gain Technorati authority.
People like Dynamic pages – ones that change without much effort on your part. The best way to achieve this is via RSS. KQF plug-in is an awesome way to include RSS into pages of your blog. Jack Humphrey – Blogging Guru has a video over at The Friday Traffic Report that shows how to best use the KQF plugin for your blog. Check it out and get RSSing!
Dotty
Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that is worth having. It will list your most popular posts in your sidebar for easy reference. Jack – Social Marketing Expert – provides a short video on using Popularity Contest. Check it out at the Friday Traffic Report.
Hello Everyone
I would like to welcome you to my blog. I will be updating this at least weekly if not more often. I will be addressing questions that customers have asked about repeatedly about how to get their sites listed in the search engines and anything else SEO related. I will also be posting interesting tidbits from the industry.
Dotty
