how to create and promote your blog
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Jason Falls's deck from WordCamp Louisville in 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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How To Create & Promote Your Blog
Blogging Success Using Word of Mouth Techniques
WordCamp, Bitches!
October 13, 2012The ‘Ville
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1. Giving People A Reason To Talk About Your Stuff
2. Making It Easier For That Conversation To Take Place
Word of Mouth
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Five Rules of WOM
‣Be Interesting
‣Make It Easy
‣Make People Happy
‣Earn Trust & Respect
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What’s The Strategy For A Blog?
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TThe Five T’s
‣Talkers Who will tell their friends about you?
‣Topics What will they talk about?
‣ToolsHow can you help the message travel?
‣Talking Part How should you join the conversation?
‣Tracking What are people saying about you?
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Talkers
‣Who will tell their friends about you?
Industry
Leaders
Clients/
Partners
Industry
Peers
Early Follow
ers
Can You
Guess?
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Topics
‣What will they talk about?
HelpfulIdeas
Thought Leadership
Entertainment Stir Stuff Up
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Topics
‣What will they talk about?
HelpfulIdeas
Facebook Group & Brand Page Best Practices
Five Little-Known Tax Deductions For
Small Businesses
Top 10 New Homeowner Lawn Care Mistakes
Easy Pre-Treatments For Cleaner Clothes
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Topics
‣What will they talk about?
Thought Leadership
What is the ROI for Social Media?
How The FDA’s Pharma Policies Are
Killing Customer Choice
Clean Living Beyond The Home: A Call To
Action For Hoteliers
The Myths Of Batted Ball Injuries
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Topics
‣What will they talk about?
Entertainment
How To Piss People Off & Make Them
Love You For It
TV Commercial Shoot Bloopers
The UPS Truck Packing Challenge
Six Industry Twitter Users That Make Us
Learn & Laugh
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Topics
‣What will they talk about?
Stir Stuff Up
Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last
Three Reasons J.D. Power Is Wrong About Our Competition
Why Our Industry Should Support Health Care Reform
Hybrid Cars Are Bull$#!T
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Tools
‣How can you help that message travel?
Don’t settle for mediocre content
Drive engagement
Make sharing easy
Shine the spot light on your readers
Incentivize pass alongs
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Talking
‣How should you join the conversation?
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Tracking
‣What are people saying about you?
Google Alerts (RSS)
Twitter Search (RSS)
SocialMention.com
ViralHeat.com
Paid Solutions
Search for more than your name
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Distilling It Down
Your Content Is Your Product
Make It About The Audience
Give Them Awesomeness
Get In Front Of Those Who Will Share Your Content
Make It Easy For People To Tell Others (Tools & Content)
Listen To Your Audience
Respond To Everything
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What Can Happen
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What Can Happen
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What Can Happen
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What Can Happen
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