Blogging Is A Marketing Tool

Blogging is a marketing tool

I don’t recall if I took these notes as from a writer’s conference, Wester con or a family history conference. Any inaccuracies or misinformation in any of these notes is the fault of the note taker.

Techniques to draw people to your blog. Posts that get the most traffic is unique. such as How to milk a goat. sea tick = how to catch. it is amusing and has pictures.
Determine a concern and your blog can address that concern.
Write from the heart.
Set up a Facebook page for each of your books.
The way you find a balance between gimmick and write from the heart is to know your bloggers first
Such topics on a blog could be business thoughts or parenting.
Write about what is relevant such as depression.
One blog has characters from your book talking as if they were real people.
Place you can set up a blog: Word Press.
Do not put up pictures of your children when doing blogs about your family.
When blogging about your kids don’t share the bad.
Try to have a lot of adventures, reading, and self-reflection to provide content.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Ted speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waBFUg_oT8 etc
Put your seat in the chair.
Your creativity can be trained.
Book: for one more day Mitch
How to respond to criticism – learn from the criticism. Those comments that hurt worse are likely true. Analyze why the comments hurt. Listen to the voice inside.
Be personal in the beginning.
Some people will read blogs on topics that are opposite from their own.
Find a style of blogging. topics that are uncomfortable or awkward.
Search engine Optimization will make it easy to find a post.
Write on a hot topic that matches the hot topics of the media. (Melva’s heard once that sometimes the blogger may use a similar phase that media is using. One example is a lot of LDS women wearing pants to church to protest something.
Anyone can write for Deseret News
Guest post on other blogs.
Write about something you really love.
If your blog gets high traffic, there is a good chance companies will call you to put adds on your site for money.
Controversy is what draws people to a blog.