DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Blogging Challenge

Today I want to share one of my favorite quick content ideas with you. And it’s using PLR articles to write quick and easy blog posts. Don’t roll your eyes and move on to something else. I have some pretty cool techniques and ideas to share with you that you don’t want to miss. It’s about so much more than copying and pasting crappy PLR articles to your site (which I don’t recommend at all btw.).  Start With Quality PLR  Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first. You have to start out with quality PLR. It’s...

We’ve been talking about social media sites for the past few days and I thought it was worth going over the best image sizes for each social media platform. While this is not an all-inclusive list, I’m covering the big 7 sites. For any other niche specific social media sites you may be using, do a quick Google search to find the best images sizes.  Having the right size image for each social media site will help make your content sine and get you the best chance of having people share it.  Facebook – Facebook will pull up any images...

In yesterday’s post we talked about how we can use social media to promote our blog posts. During the process we started establishing a presence on the social media platforms where our target audience hangs out. This step is crucial. You don’t want to use your own favorite social media sites, or the ones where you think your people should hang out. Instead, do your research and find the places where the people you’re trying to reach are already hanging out at.  Then start interacting on those pages and in those circles and groups. Not only will this help you...

Yesterday we talked about how important it is to promote your blog posts after you hit publish. Today we pick back up on the topic and dig a little deeper into how we can leverage social media to do just that. Tomorrow we’ll wrap it up with part two of social media love where I’ll show you how you can use social media to improve your blog and come up with endless post ideas. Stay tune for that and read the simple five step process of using social media to promote your own stuff.  Step One – Identify Where Your...

You spend a lot of time and effort crafting a few blog posts per week. You take pictures, or buy stock photos and format them. In other words, you put a lot of time, thought, and effort into your blog posts. You hit publish and then you move on to working on the next blog post. If that’s you, there’s a very important step you’re missing – promoting your blog and your blog posts.  Getting the word out about the awesome post you’ve just published is just as important as writing it in the first place. In fact, you should...