Blog Blazing: Modeling The Bloggers

Today's interview is with Stephane Grenier the author of Blog Blazers.
He researched the top 40 blog marketers online and then interviewed them. He asked them the following questions:
1. What makes a blog successful?
2.How long does it take to be a successful blogger?
3.What blogs do you recommend for others to read?
4.Whats your best advice as far as content and writing for bloggers?
5.What are you main methods as far as marketing your blog?

There are more but you get the idea. This is a most have and a treasure trove of actionable information.

I interviewed Steph and he helped to mark out several concepts that may be useful for you.

Some of the tips he gives:

• Own your own domain.
• Headlines are important.
• Value your community, offer something of value, give them a reason to come back to the site.
• Focus on a topic, not everything.
• Revenues are not necessarily directly from the blog, the blog is an attractor to the service.
• Blogs create authority, and reputation. So they find you.
• Is commenting a necessity?
• How are the Pros using social media?
• His take on Twitter and Social Media.

A list of his interviewees and their blogs:
http://www.blogblazers.com/bloggers

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Stephane founded LandlordMax Software Inc in 2003, a company specialized in selling property management software to real estate investors, property management companies, banks, and cities. Since its beginnings LandlordMax has continued to grow, with sales in almost every continent of the world.