Chances are likely, if you’re reading this blog, it’s because of the work I’ve done guest blogging.
Even if you came here through a search engine, most of the back links come from the guest blogging opportunities I’ve taken advantage of.
The tactic has allowed me to work with awesome editors. Learning from them has made my blogging a million times better. [click to continue…]
“Marketing is a story”
- Seth Godin
“Stories are … the currency of human contact.”
- Robert McKee
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them”
- Ira Glass
On this second edition of The MindFire Chats we’ll be discussing The Art of Story Telling & Social Media Marketing with three experts with three diverse backgrounds in story telling.
From story’s importance in branding, to the latest platforms to tell your company’s story, this panel will uncover some amazing tactics and approaches for incorporating story into your organizations marketing for maximum effect.
Ever wonder what it takes to establish a professional network of contacts that leads to promotional opportunities, foot traffic (if you’re a brick and mortar) & more SALES?!
In this very first edition of “The MindFire Chats” I’ll be interviewing three individuals who have built professional networks that allow them to do just that.
Our panelists are:
Kent Dean, Field Marketing Director of Rosa’s Cafe. He’ll be discussing & answering questions about community outreach and how being plugged into the local community has lead to more foot traffic into each one of the restaurant’s 35 locations.
Rich Thompson, a sales coach who very recently adapted his B2B/Corporate network to a B2C/small business network with great success. He’ll be answering questions about getting your B2B contacts to think outside the box & how that translates to more sales.
and finally
John Herman the founder of New Hampshire Media Makers, Ford Motor Company named him a “Top 100 Web Influencer”. John has leveraged his network to raise 10′s of thousands of dollars for charity, win huge competitions, speak on the TEDx stage and be featured on sites like GigaOm and BoingBoing (to name a few) He will be talking about the time it’s taken to establish that network, and the give/ask ratio that is required to maintain it.
I’m BEYOND excited for this chat, and if you can make it, I think it’s going to be insanely valuable.
If you’ve had questions about what it takes to establish a strong network, leave them in the comments. Network is at the foundation of all online success, so I hope this chat helps 
Right now, from this point on, you take your blogging more seriously.
You’re going to overcome resistance, stop being a virtual wall flower & take your professional networking to the next level.
This time next year, come Hell or high water, you’re going to be somebody damn it. Guest blogging is what’s going to get you there.
You’ve shaken yourself of silly guest blogging myths.
You’ve listed out the places you’d like to be guest blogging for, you’ve researched your topics, you’ve mapped out a strategy, and you’re ready to go.
Unfortunately, your guest post is probably going to flop.
Alright, fine… it does well on that first day. It gets tons of comments, people retweet it a bunch… great, then what?
What happens next? What happens a week from now?
Chances are your guest blogging efforts will all be in vein- sucked into the oblivion known as the social media life cycle.
You’re extra aware of the inherit SEO value that comes from guest blogging for a popular blog.
There’s this popular misconception that IF you’re Guest Posting for an A-List blog, THEN your blog will blow up.
Readers will be like, “Hey you posted on that site I love. HERE, TAKE MY MONEY!”
Before your guest blog goes live, you’ve preemptively increased your hosting, lest all these new salivating visitors crash your website because they’ve been starved and they’re hungry to devour your awesomeness .
The inner circle of blogging elite are all firing emails off through their secret network saying “You’ve Got To See This?!”, while simultaneously arguing, and making power plays vying for who’s going to book you to write next.
Smaller blogs in your field simmer with Awe and Envy because you achieved what they never could.
That’s it. It’s over.
The guest posts went live, emails sent out, Subscribers gained, subscribers lost.
Lessons learned.
We didn’t crowdfund the full $100,000 we were looking for, but I believe what we gained is more valuable.
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