Promoting Your Blog Through Social Media and Networking

Promoting yourself, your business or your blog on social networking can be extremely profitable if done right.

Before you can find your customers on a social networking site, you have to be involved in that social networking site. Which means establishing a page on Facebook, My Space, You Tube, Twitter etc.  Adding a photo so people get a sense of who you are. Just basically introducing yourself, your interest and your business.

For example, every time you write a new post, post the link on facebook.  This way it will come up on your friends' "news feed" and there is a very good chance someone will click on your blog from there! 

Now having "friends or followers"

• Let the networking site go through your email list and see who else that you know or have had communication with also has a page on the site. You can then decide if you want to link up with that person.

• Put an announcement on your website with your social network site information and ask people to join you.

• Join groups that have been established on the site that are relevant to your business interests.

Why you "Need" Friends: 

• Your email list will generate a list of people you already know that you can link up with.

• The site announcement gives people the opportunity to be part of your list.

• People who have joined a group have announced their interest in speaking with other people about the subject of the group.

• Use a search query that searches the interests people have identified in their profiles.

Give your social media creativity a try. It will help you build knowledge of your market and who is out there, it will give you closer connections with potential customers, and hopefully higher sales or hits as a reward for all of your hard work!

A Job That Allows You to Work From Home

As I mention in my About Me section, the reason I have decided to become a professional blogger is to have the option to Work from home. Perhaps the best reason to become a writer is that it allows you the option of working from home. Not having to drive to work daily or be set to a particular schedule, writers can plan their days as they please. Working from home has its many advantages as well as disadvantages but in my opinion the advantages of working from home as a writer far outweigh the disadvantages as long as you are the type of person that can motivate yourself. 

This also means you can Be your own boss!  Being your own boss is great as you will never have to worry about getting fired or upsetting someone besides yourself ahha. However, again there are advantages and disadvantages to this depending on how organized you are and your ability to budget your money.

If you are reading this and are interested in becoming a writer, you might want to consider starting up a blog.  I personally prefer blogger over wordpress because blogger is easier to design and customize the look of your blog.  Don't worry, it seems complicated at first but like anything practice makes perfect! I will use this blog to help you and provide tips on how to use blogger since I believe I was born to do this =)  Please feel free to post any questions you have about blogger on here!

But back to the making money from home part! Blogger makes it very easy to make money from home by offering Google Adsense.  This basically is a program that you sign up for and choose where they place Google Advertisements on your blog.  It's also called "Monetizing" your blog.  Ofcourse, with the more people going and reading your blog, the better your chances of making money.  However, don't get discouraged, its all about being persistent and writing writing writing.  The more content, the more chances Google will "crawl" over your blog and the better you will rank in the search engines. 

Tomorrow I will talk about ways to promote your blog for free and get more hits that way.  But for now it's time to go out and have some fun.  Good Night!!