An overview and how to on Blogging. Created in 2014.
Includes why blog (SEO etc.), branding, blog platform choices, what to write about, where to find content, how to write for blogs, SEO and analytic basics and how to make blogging easier.
A visually appealing presentation that is sure to bring up many questions and group discussions.
Creator Influencer Strategy Master Class - Corinne Rose Guirgis
Blogging How To (Blogging Presentation Week 2)
1. Week #2: It’s Time to Blog
~ Finding Your Voice
with Shannon Bowen-Kelsick
www.sbkelsick.com
@sbkelsick
2. What is a blog ?
• Web content
• Not necessarily personal
@sbkelsick
3. Why Blog ?
• Easy to update your website with a blog
• Brand yourself and & business
• Express yourself ~ hone your passion
• SEO! Help people find you & your business
@sbkelsick Written by Mitch Joel in “Bring back the Corporate Blog” May 2014
5. What to write about:
• Your business services
• Your portfolio
• Your experiences, thoughts, questions
• Events (yours, ones you attend, ones your
audience is interested in)
• How to or help doc
• Curation of other great material
• Images, videos
• Resources like other blogs, books, speakers
• Interview people!
@sbkelsick
11. Get inspired, where to find content
• Magazines
• Blogs
• News
• Podcasts
• Google Alerts
• Events
• Books
• Customers!
Group Exercise:
1. Choose our group topic of
interest
2. Find an interesting blog post
about your topic
3. Find a podcast about a topic,
come up with a blog post idea
4. Google the topic, find an
infographic
5. Google Books about the topic,
find a list of books you will read
then recommend
@sbkelsick
12. How to write
• When
– When you are inspired
– Carve out the time, schedule!
– All at once, pre-publish
– When you find new content
• Tools
– Journal
– Storyboard
– Evernote
– Notepad!
@sbkelsick
13. SEO basics
search engine optimization
• Article titles matter
• Picture names matter
• Watch your analytics (WordPress or Google)
• Who is looking for you?
– Exercise: Answer this question: What is your customer typing
into a search engine that you want your website to appear? List
5 things
@sbkelsick
15. Honing and Communicating Your
Passion/Brand
• Allow your blog to change and morph as you hone your
passions and your brand
• Try things!
• Write from the heart, with personality and character
@sbkelsick
16. How to make things easier
• Making blogging a habit, just do it for a while
• Just click publish
• Blogging Planners
• Carving time out to write
@sbkelsick
17. Blog On.
with Shannon Bowen-Kelsick
www.sbkelsick.com
@sbkelsick
Editor's Notes
Build our relationship (great way to connect with people you want to meet!)
Good for my SEO
Doug shared it online when I didn’t have much of a following
Very simple
Great for my SEO
Shared my WIL
Invited me to event
Magazines – if you are flying or at a coffee shop and you don’t want to be digital, pick up a magazine that relates to your topic, ENDLESS ideas! (bring an example?)
Blogs – subscribe to blogs! This will show you what others are blogging about and either give you good ideas you can twist, or will send you in another direction, you can write an article that disagree’s with another article! Juicy
News – listen to the news, radio – if you are relevant there is more likliehood of being found and read
Podcasts – when I listen to podcasts I get ENDLESS inspiration to write, be it to share the particular podcast, a quote, an idea etc. ENDLESS
Google Alerts – get things come in everyday! Events, people news etc.
Events – a great way to stay relevant and provide really valuable content to your audience
Books – read and write about it all, again endless inspiration – even a book review, or the top 5 things I learned about x. And it doesn’t have to be positive, if you didn’t like the book write about it.
Interviews
Be ready when you are inspired, notebook or tablet on hand, jot down notes etc.
Carve out the time – use your planner, or carve out time on your calendar, its amazing what you can get done in ½ hour or an hour a week when you have carved out the time to do it. BE SERIOUS, others are..
Carve out a bunch of time to write and pre-publish a lot
When you find new content – write notes, write the title and save it in WordPress
Tools:
Use your journal or notepad or sketch pad
Use a storyboard template
Use a program like Evernote
Or use simple notepad!
Article Title example
Business Article on accounting, could be titled:
Wednesday Business News #45
OR
5 Tips to Using Quickbooks – Bnews #45
Picture Names example
0232fdsfdsajk
OR
Calgary Large Format Printing Paula Sinclair
This blog has YOUR personality, your business and your passion has YOUR personality, stay true to your values and your voice and take the blog where it feels right, while you are paying attention to what your current customers want.
Business and customers change, and you have to as well.