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Honest blogging teachers freely admit they do not know everything there is to know about blogging.
Genuine blogging teachers admit knowing some stuff about blogging but not knowing a bunch about blogging, too.
Real blogging teachers share how they:
- learn new blogging lessons daily
- learn old blogging lessons in a new way quite frequently
- fully understand certain blogging concepts 1, 2 or even 20 years into their blogging career
I have zero issues sharing how I learn stuff I resisted, buried or avoided learning for years. Why? Help. Sharing my experience helps you become a successful blogger. Sharing my experiences in honest fashion reveals someone who lives a neat life learns new things about blogging – and himself – routinely.
One blogging lesson took me 13 years to fully understand:
Speaking-typing-chatting with every individual who expresses interest via blog comments, emails, social media comments, DMs, Messages, Likes, Retweets or any other form of engagement is a core key to growing traffic and profits.
Exhibit A:
Scan every comment from my recent Instagram post. I thank every human being who Liked the update. I began this practice on Instagram last night. My:
- followers
- Likes
- comments
increased quickly since last night.
I ramped up engagement 1-2 weeks ago across all online platforms to my highest levels ever because even though I understood engagement is a core key to blogging success I did not *fully* understand this concept until a few weeks ago. The *fully* idea simply means: beyond creating problem-solving content addressing your reader’s needs the only thing that matters is engaging with all people who engage you in a supportive way via any-all methods online. Friendships, trust, credibility, bonds, traffic, profits and peace of mind sprout from these 1 to 1, human, genuine interactions.
Sue-Ann Bubacz is the best in the world that I have personally seen in this regard. She replies to everyone who Likes or retweets her stuff, let alone engaging commentors. Sue-Ann built a thriving business through the power of speaking-talking-typing-chatting up human beings who Like her stuff or comment on her stuff.
Is Replying to All Like-ers Spam?
If someone you met in a coffee shop said:
“I like your blog.”
would you ignore them for fear of being annoying, agitating or spammy? No. You would say:
“Thank you.”
Saying “Thank you” via a tweet, Facebook comment or LinkedIn comment to humans who Like or RT your stuff is the same as saying “thank you” offline.
Note; the only exception to this rule – when saying “thank you” becomes spammy according to FB or LI at least – is when your thankful comments reach a specific threshold. Nobody knows what that number is but unless you are Gary Vaynerchuk reading this post, you are not generating that number of Likes or Retweets.
All of you bloggers reading this likely do not receive 100 plus Likes per FB and LinkedIn post. Knowing this, you can slowly, surely and patiently thank the 1, 5, 10 or 20 human beings who Like your post with a “thank you” comment on FB and LI.
Social People Make Many Friends and Position Themselves to Succeed
Social people offline make many friends. Friends help them with any problem they have. Friends prosper them. Social people online – who engage folks 1-to-1 every single day – make many friends. Online friends help them with any problem they have. Online friends prosper them.
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Before you publish a new piece of content, engage with all engagers via your prior piece of content. Commenting “thanks” to Like-ers and retweeters gives:
instructions to provide these posts with greater exposure in front of like-minded, targeted users on these networks. Increased traffic and profits tend to follow but only for patient, persistent bloggers.
Google gladly gives your blog posts greater exposure if you optimize posts effectively and boost engagement via befriending and chatting with:
- retweeters
- FB Like-ers
- LI Like-ers
- FB Sharers
- LI Sharers
- blog commentors
- FB, LI and Twitter commentors
Show Patience and Persistence
Be patient. Be persistent. I erred for years in each department because I did not patiently and persistently engage everyone who engaged my content. I have 100% learned my lesson. Doing my best to engage all or most humans who engage me online via all forms is my #1 intent before I create more content, to:
- have fun
- make friends
- help more people
- gain exposure
Traffic and business takes care of itself, from there.
$200 Million Does Not Lie
The aforementioned Gary Vee is estimated to be worth up to $200 million USD.
Gary does not care about money. Nor do I. But on a worldly, ego level, the $200 million represents a titanic amount of:
- 1 to 1 engagement
- value shared
over years. Gary Vee built much of that empire by using his phone to:
- comment with folks on Twitter, FB, IG and other sites
- begin running discussions with individuals via social platforms online
- ask questions
- answer questions 1 to 1
Before you create a new piece of content simply fully engage all humans who engaged your prior piece of content. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and all sites online yearn to give you greater exposure, targeted traffic and increased blogging profits because exposing valuable, highly engaged content makes them look good.
Chat up engagers to prosper.
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