9. Experiment With New Things
• Plant of the Week
• Domestic Dispatches
• Garden-to-Table Recipes
• The Novice Gardener
• You Pin It, We ID It
• 10 Easy Pieces, etc.
10. News You Can
Use
A DIY project you can try,
a product you can buy.
A plant you can grow,
a technique you should
know.
Gardening Blogging: Make Friends and Get Rich Fast
Things to Cover: -- Have something to say…you blog because you can’t not blog… -- Michelle’s background
Things to Cover:. -- POV publishing -- 75 percent of Americans enjoy gardening. -- High quality, organic, good design, delicious, beautiful -- Our definition of “ gardening ” is broad. -- Fire escape gardens (urban dwellers). -- A pot of herbs on the kitchen windowsill. -- Our mission has grown to encompass both: outdoor living (hiking, camping, entertaining) -- and cooking/recipes (you have to do something with all that food you grow in the garden). -- People should visit gardens when they travel. -- Gardeners should have access to high quality well made long lasting tools and accessories. -- Backyard tomato patch. -- Our mission has grown to encompass both outdoor living (hiking, camping, entertaining) and cooking/recipes (you have to do something with all that food you grow in the garden).
Gardenista a natural offshoot of Remodelista, where we believe design matters. Quality matters, healthy well made beautiful things enrich our lives.
Things to Cover: -- Our definition of “ gardening ” is broad. -- Fire escape gardens (urban dwellers). -- A pot of herbs on the kitchen windowsill. -- Nursing a cantankerous orchid. -- Backyard tomato patch.
Things to Cover: -- The “ Gardenista Look ” -- Imagery and Text Have Equal Narrative Weight on the Site. -- Experiment With New Things: Plant of the Week, Domestic Dispatches, Garden-to-Table Recipes, The Novice Gardener, The English Gardener, 10 Easy Pieces, etc. etc. -- We are also a sourcebook with a catalog of thousands of handpicked, useful, high quality products. -- Give readers information they can act on: a DIY project they can try, a product they can buy, a plant they can grow, a technique to try.
The “ Gardenista Look ”
Things to Cover: -- The “ Gardenista Look ” -- Imagery and Text Have Equal Narrative Weight on the Site. -- Experiment With New Things: Plant of the Week, Domestic Dispatches, Garden-to-Table Recipes, The Novice Gardener, The English Gardener, 10 Easy Pieces, etc. etc. -- We are also a sourcebook with a catalog of thousands of handpicked, useful, high quality products. -- Give readers information they can act on: a DIY project they can try, a product they can buy, a plant they can grow, a technique to try.
Things to Cover: -- The “ Gardenista Look ” -- Imagery and Text Have Equal Narrative Weight on the Site. -- Experiment With New Things: Plant of the Week, Domestic Dispatches, Garden-to-Table Recipes, The Novice Gardener, The English Gardener, 10 Easy Pieces, etc. etc. -- We are also a sourcebook with a catalog of thousands of handpicked, useful, high quality products. -- Give readers information they can act on: a DIY project they can try, a product they can buy, a plant they can grow, a technique to try.
-- We are also a sourcebook with a catalog of thousands of handpicked, useful, high quality products. -- Give readers information they can act on: a DIY project they can try, a product they can buy, a plant they can grow, a technique to try.
Things to Cover: -Build a community to drive traffic. -- Use social media (how we use different strategies for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram). -- Encourage commenting. -- Build relationships with other bloggers (link backs, guest bloggers, cross-promotional partnerships -- Contests and Giveaways.
Things to Cover: -Build a community to drive traffic. -- Use social media (how we use different strategies for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram). -- Encourage commenting. -- Build relationships with other bloggers (link backs, guest bloggers, cross-promotional partnerships -- Contests and Giveaways.
Things to Cover: -- Our revenue model is ad sales. -- Know your numbers: how to parse Google Analytics, Chartbeat, SEO keyword search data, Facebook data, Curalate to know who comes to your site and why. -- Figure out how to cater to that core audience while expanding your readership to other demographic groups.