Tag: finding readers
Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan
The post Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by delfi de la Rua on Unsplash By ProBlogger Writing Expert Ali Luke. Has your blog got a grand total of three subscribers? (You, your test account, and your mum?) Maybe you’ve got a little bit further than that. You’ve got 10 or 20 or 50 readers signed up to read your posts or your newsletter. But you don’t know where to go next. I’m going to assume that your blog is currently in reasonably good shape. If there are any key things that you need to do or fix, then get those sorted before proceeding. (For instance, if your About page is currently a single line saying About page under construction,
How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers
The post How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Kristian Angelo on Unsplash If you want to have a blog that makes a difference in the lives of those who read it, I would highly recommend getting clarity around these three simple (yet powerful) questions: Who are your readers? What do they need? How will they change as a result of reading your blog? Previously I wrote very briefly about these questions and suggested that they might be a great way to come up with a purpose statement for a blog. Since that time I’ve had conversations with four ProBlogger readers who took these questions and applied them to their own blogs – and in
15 Social Media Mistakes that are Strangling Your Success
The post 15 Social Media Mistakes that are Strangling Your Success appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash While it’s not new, I’m often surprised by the way bloggers use—and mis-use—social media. Each of us has our own blogging journey, and we use different tools in our own unique ways. Yet there are still quite a few very common errors that I continue to see bloggers making as they work with social media. These mistakes have the potential to make your social media experience a struggle—if not put you off it completely. But if you persist with them over time, they have the potential to do significant harm to your brand and your blog. Think about it: social media is a very
15 Ways to Keep Readers on Your Blog
The post 15 Ways to Keep Readers on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. This blog post is based on episode 35 of the ProBlogger podcast. With so many websites out there all competing for people’s attention, you need to try to grab people’s attention quickly and keep it for as long as possible. But how exactly do you do that? Well, here are 15 ways to keep readers on your blog that you might want to try. 1. Give people ways to subscribe, follow, or connect You might think this is pretty obvious. But it’s amazing how many people haven’t really thought this one through. First, you need to work which option will work best for you. Personally, I find email works best. Social networks can also be
