So you think that it would be cool to make some money as a “blogger”. Why not, seems easy enough….Right?
Before you quit that day job read, How to Become A Semi-Successful Blogger
The part of the process that I am not very good at is the “Shameless Self Promotion”
Don’t be afraid of shameless self-promotion
I just knew this post, if distributed through the right channels, would be a huge hit. I knew that even the top-tier bloggers in my niche would appreciate the post, because my slant on the topic (humor) was totally unique and well-crafted. Perhaps against my better judgment, I emailed a bunch of the aforementioned top-tier bloggers shamelessly self-promoting my post. The email said something like “Hey [name], I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time now and I thought you’d appreciate a post I just wrote entitled [ultra-witty and attention-grabbing post name]. Let me know what you think!â€
To my surprise, many of these people not only viewed the post, but commented on and linked to the post, and the most important blog in my niche dedicated an entire post to describing and linking to my original post – all within two hours of publishing the article. So I found more avenues to shamelessly-self promote my article, including posting a link in a Facebook group dedicated to my niche.
This is something that is not in my nature which if I ever want to move from the hobby blogger, to the business blogger I am going to have to overcome.
John has a good take on the process, but I would recommend going over to Chris Garrett’s site to since he is on of the authorities in the Blogging world.
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