Blog your passion

I don’t recall if I took these notes as LTUE, WeWester on or a family history conference. I don’t recall if this was a panel of individuals or one person. (sorry) I take a lot of notes from a lot of places. Any inaccuracies or misinformation in any of these notes is the fault of the note taker.

Find your niche / passion
Ask yourself questions that can help you define your key passions
Q: Is there an area in your life where good things happen?
Q: Do you have a lot of knowledge about a certain topic?
Q: What do you do that gets complements from others?
Q: How would you spend your free day?
Q: What can you do easily?
Q: What could you teach?
Q: What brings you joy?
Q: What work do you do when you are procrastinating?
Keep your niche narrow.
Blog on everything you love.
Be yourself.
Readers come back because I’m me.
It you’re not authentic with yourself, readers can tell.
Not everyone is going to like you.
People read 10-15 blogs a day.
People start establishing a relationship/friendships with the bloggers they read.
Be authentic, people will be supportive.
Share you flops/failures as well as your successes.
Q: What kind of atmosphere do you want to create with your blog?
Provide quality content: fresh, relevant, and consistent.
Readers want to hear from you.
Learn about your readership. You can learn of them through the types of comments they leave.
Keep it simple.
One person had 5 blogs but they intergraded all of them into one.
Don’t allow yourself to be unfocused by all of your ideas?
Community is King, readers come back for you and other responders.
Your content will attract your community.
People will start interacting with you.
Learn to listen to your community.
Respond to your community and their questions.
Social media builds blog community. People go to social media to be part a community.
Facebook for your blog. Keep it fun. Have content of Facebook that is new from what you post on your web site. Maybe ask your audience a question of information you need.
Pinterest has increased traffic on people’s blogs.
Establish a community of other bloggers who’s blog match yours.
Having an abundance of others’ success does not interfere with yours
A blog is a place to ask questions.
What stops people from reading a blog?
*not enough relevant information or too much information.
Don’t do more than one blog a day.
Readers don’t want bad language.
Readers want big print.
Readers don’t want music
What motivates people to read a blog?
Content inspires them to be better people.
Be genuine
Provide accurate title to the post.
Start a blog because you have a story to tell and not for money.
If you get 25K visits a month, then you can add ads. Make sure they match the content of our blog. Feature products that you would use.
Don’t apologize to your readers for your website having ads.