“To have meaningful social media impact, you must provide a critical mass of content that will position you and your organization as thought leaders within your market niche.\u00a0 Nothing works better than a blog to achieve that objective.\u00a0 Over time, your blog will contain an increasingly rich and relevant reservoir of information that serves as a Google magnet.”<\/p>\n
Here are a fews tips I’m using to post to this blog more frequently while saving time and writing\u00a0original content.<\/p>\n
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- Set aside a certain time of day to blog. For me, early-morning\u00a0is best, after I’ve had a chance to check email and my Twitter and Facebook feeds.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n - Set aside certain days of the week to blog, and schedule the time on your calendar.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n - Involved in an interesting discussion on Twitter or Facebook? Blog about it. You can even use screen shots of the discussion to dress up the copy. This screenshot shows some of my followers commenting on a tweet I posted about\u00a040 percent of new followers abandoning Twitter within just a few months:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- \u00a0Giving advice to somebody who has emailed you?\u00a0It’s fodder for a blog post.\u00a0But\u00a0don’t use the person’s name unless you ask permission.\u00a0\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n - Make your blog, Twitter and Facebook work hand in hand. Import your blog headlines into\u00a0both.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n - Don’t forget to take the time to comment at other people’s blogs. I have created Google Alerts <\/a>for several topics I’m interested in and comment regularly at other blogs to promote my expertise, pull traffic to this blog, ask questions, \u00a0and get to know other interesting people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
You’ll find many more ideas on what to blog about\u00a0and how to use a blog and 50 creative ways to make your blog popular.<\/p>\n
What about you? How do you force yourself to devote adequate time at your blog while participating in conversations elsewhere online?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I started Twittering a year ago, I noticed I was spending far more\u00a0time there than at this blog, and I wondered if other bloggers were finding the same thing. So I asked the question on Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, many bloggers admitted to either abandoning their blogs,\u00a0or posting far less frequently. That’s a huge\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-41959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-blogging","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42100,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959\/revisions\/42100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- \u00a0Giving advice to somebody who has emailed you?\u00a0It’s fodder for a blog post.\u00a0But\u00a0don’t use the person’s name unless you ask permission.\u00a0\u00a0