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
Stephane Grenier FollowSteph.com
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.
Great Interview, I especially liked the tip on building a community that causes people to want to come back over and over again by really focusing on a specific topic rather than being all over the place and not trying to make your Blog the Money Maker but rather a valueable information source which has portals to your different revenue streams.
Posted by: Bend Oregon Real Estate | May 31, 2009 at 01:23 PM