How to Have a Successful Blog
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How to Have a Successful Blog:
Eff if I know.
I have one blog that has “endured,” shall we say. I do not believe it is popular. I have followed the advice of others to gain visitors to the blog—give something away, make the buttons clickable, collect email addresses. I’ve followed the marketing recommendations: always have an image, share the image on the Pinterest, etc. etc. I offer my crafty ebooks there, for sale. I suppose those recommendations are about monetizing the blog, not making it “successful.” Unless that’s what success for a blog means. Is it?
Many writers are put off by the Business Requirements™ of paid writers. Whether you publish yourself or someone else publishes you, in the end your success will come at the hands of your own marketing efforts. Publishers often no longer bankroll book tours for authors. If they do, they don’t pay the author, they just pay for the tour; the author signs books for free, does readings, takes pictures for the Instagrams, and so on, for no extra pay. (This information is based on what I have heard from published authors writing on their blogs and of published authors I know personally. If you know better, I’m glad to know it—please leave a comment.)
Because I know that my own marketing efforts will make the difference, I have decided to start to focus some goddamn attention in that direction. Oh, look! This is a blog entry, which counts as marketing. Imagine.
I have also decided to read each of my blog entries aloud, and record myself doing that, to share on YouTube, for people who prefer to have things read out loud to them. The reason doesn’t matter to me; lots of people enjoy having things read out loud. If you are one of them feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel. The name is the same as all of my other social media for How to Write:
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Thanks for staying with me for as long as I’ve been writing this book. Blog entries are in a whole section! I need examples for the book, so some of these entries may show up in the book. Looky me, writing a blog entry that ALSO may count for writing my book! So many birds! One stone!
So. Many. Birds.
Sigh.