DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG

We’ve talked a lot about reader engagement and building a community around your blog throughout this series of posts about blogging. Today we’ll go over a fun little strategy that involves your readers and gives you plenty of fresh blogging topics and ideas.  You may remember a few weeks ago, I suggested you ask your readers to email you their questions [LINK to that post]. Today’s tip is along the same lines, but now you’re asking your readers to share their best tips.   Readers will come up with some interesting ideas. Not all of them are viable for publishing on...

Yesterday we talked about using the keyword planner tool to come up with blog post ideas. Today I have another tool/ tip for you. You can use a blogging planner to come up with almost endless blog post ideas and make sure they work well depending on time of year etc.  One of my favorite blogging planners is the free planner published by Lynnette Chandler from BlogEnergizer.com. It’s a cool planning tool and each month you get a list of ideas for things you can blog about that month.  Of course you can also come up with your own niche...

Whenever I start to run out of blog post ideas, or have a general idea what I want to blog about but not the exact topic or title, I head on over to use the Google Keyword Planner tool. To find it search for “google keyword planner”. It will pop right up for you.  The tool is part of Google AdWords, and you will need a Google / Gmail account to sign up, but there’s no fee for using the tool. All you do is set up a free AdWords account and you’re good to go. No need to buy...

We’ve talked about the importance of a mailing list a few times throughout this challenge. I hope you’ve taken the time to start growing your email list at this point. Let’s assume you did, or maybe you’re ahead of the game and have been building a list since long before this challenge started. In either case, good for you, let’s leverage that list to help grow our blogs.  An Email to Your List Each Time You Post  One of the simplest things you can do to leverage your list is to write and send a quick email to them each...

Today I want to share something with you that I would consider a bit more of an advanced list building technique. The good news is, it’s actually fairly easy to implement, but it is a little extra work. I promise that it’s well worth the effort.  The idea is to have a series of blog posts on a related theme, all ending in a CTA (call to action) that invites readers to join your list. To entice them to subscribe, you offer them a short report as a lead magnet. That sounds like a lot of writing, doesn’t it? How...