Terrific Tuesday Guest Blogger- Joe Cheray
Hello Everyone:
Today’s Terrific Tuesday Feature Guest blogger is Joe Cheray. We will have a feature guest blogger posting and sharing their expertise to help us take our blogs and grow our business to the next level. Thank You Joe for being our first guest blogger. Enjoy!
Terrific Tuesday Feature Guest Blogger Joe Cheray
Jane asked me to put together this post for her readers after I submitted my recent post to the Continuity Blogging Community Facebook page. In my post I talked about the tips I took away from #blogchat on Twitter. Jane visited my blog and asked me to write a little article to explain what a Twitter chat is and how to take part in one.
So without further adieu let me share with you this gem for your blog and your business.
As Twitter has evolved there has come about a chat interface called http://tweetchat.com/ where people can have a room to chat about a common interest such as #blogchat. The way it works is you go to the tweetchat site, sign in with your twitter ID and then enter the hashtag you want to chat with others about, hit enter and it takes you into a twitter style chat interface. For first time users you will have to authorize TweetChat to access your Twitter account once you accept you will never be asked again.
Here is a screen shot of what it looks on my end before entering the chat.
Once inside
Depending on the amount of folks in the stream it can be hard to keep up if you have it set at anything less than 10. This past week I had to set it to 20 just to keep up.
Blogchat is a good chat to get involved in as it allows you to be with others who are doing the same thing you and it also allows fellow bloggers to learn from each other. Let’s face it sometimes blogging can be a very introverted task and we all need to learn how to break free from that bubble ever so often. I know I do. I am a self professed introvert and have to force myself to interact with others around me just to get out of my own head space for a bit. Otherwise I would probably blog 24/7.
Also there is an immense amount of resources to be shared within this chat. At the end there is a transcript provided and also a way to share your favorite tips from the chat. The host usually posts the link to the transcript for us. The transcript and FavTips is an excellent way to capture those kernels of information for future reference. You can print both off and go through with a highlighter and add the information that stands out to you in your business notebook if you keep one and well if you don’t keep one you should. But I digress and that is a whole other topic to write about.
To read more of tips and asides at and find out more about Joe Cheray visit her at Wildheart’s Web 2.0
Joe Cheray’s Bio
Joe Cheray is a blogger from Topeka Kansas. She also specializes in other aspects of social media such as Twitter, StumbleUpon to name a few.
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
LinkedIn
Be in the Blog Spotlight! How to get More Visibility!
Be in the Blog Spotlight
Hello Everyone:
Learning to let go of our blogs and putting it out there is the hardest thing to to. I realize it is our baby and the fear of what people might think when they read our blog post. Will they like us and will they come back for more! What do you do when no one notices you or even visit your blog? Such a sad shame. Then you start to internalize and get feelings of “What’s wrong with the picture? Nobody loves me! The reality is once your blog is out. You got to be visible! How do people know you or even find out about you?
How to Get More Visibility
Guest Blogging
Be a guest blogger- That is writing a blog post for someone else’s blog. This will not only get one noticed and provide more visibility. When readers from the other blog sees your post and wants to know more about your services/product they will visit your site. There is also a little bio that is printed at the bottom. How cool is that! You are being marketed!
Here is an example: Yvonne A. Jones from Maintain a Success Circle in Direct Sales & Relationship Marketing (click on Yvonne’s name to get to her actual site for more info) asked me to be a guest blogger for her weekly “Monday Writer” series on her blog.
This is what the guest blog post looked like 4 Reasons Why Customer Service is Critical to the Growth of your Business
Comments
Why bother commenting? Yes, I admit in the beginning I was shy and did not want to write the first comment because other people may judge me. It’s nothing serious. The reason why you comment on other blogs is that you send a message to the blogger that they wrote valuable content or not and if it made a difference of some kind or impact. Commenting is a good thing. Restaurants always want you us fill out their comment cards to let them know what the experience was like and how they can continue to provide great service. We learn things from one another. Since I love using WordPress, there are so many new materials that comes on board. The blog posts that I frequent will provide updates that I am not aware of. So I give them credit and Thank them. What happens then? Magic!
A) The blogger just noticed that their blog post was a resource and helped someone that makes them feel good
B) This blogger will probably want to check you out and find out more about who you are and what you are all about
C) The readers who frequent her/his blog will notice your comment and will want to check you out as well
Just feel the love! It’s all about reciprocating people.
Tweet This, FaceBook, Share this and Digg that people
Do not forget to have a tweetme, facebook share, Share this and Digg buttons on your blog. These are plugins that you can upload to your wordpress site. Why are these buttons important? Do I really need one? Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked In can provide visibility and exposure to your blog. When readers visit your blog and find your information valuable then they want to share it with their friends and others who needs to see your stuff. What better way to get noticed and more visibility then getting syndicated all over Twitter and Facebook. No fun tweeting your own blog articles. Having others tweet and retweet your material makes you more of an expert.
Blog Challenges
Evaluate if a blog challenge is right for you first. It is a chunk of time that you have to committ to. How is it going to be received with your readers? If you do not have a lot of traffic visiting your site or you want to challenge yourself to blog on a consistant basis then participating in a blog challenge is right for you. Being in a blog challenge has it’s rewards.
A) Meet other bloggers and like minded people
B) Other blogger will tweet and comment on your blog post
C) Get customer and new clients
Also you can join the Continuity Blogging Community on Facebook, and continue to post your blog post and get more readers and connect with other bloggers
This was a fun blog post. I have so many more tips, but these are the core ones to get you started. If you want more blogging information. Fill in the opt-in box on the upper right hand corner and I will send the latest buzz on what happening in the blogging world.
Happy Blogging!