Kicking Ass Content Connections
By Patrick Havens, posted Jul 21 2007 at 2:00 pm | View Comments
(Lorelle) knows a thing or two about building traffic and connection with audience, having built her own blog to well over a million and a half pageviews. Lorelle will be talking about strategies for connecting to your audience, writing, and of course kicking ass.
Considering that she followed lunch, Lorelle started by going from person to person asking what their blog was, and what they blogged about. So there was a lot of conversation… and it didn’t seem like everyone was listening.
You invest in other companies you want money. If you want connections, you must invest.
So many blog posts look like they where written in 10 minutes. They look like they can’t write, they can’t think, and they are out on a day pass.
As bloggers there is a part of us that say why? Find the pieces and fill in the why.
As raised in the publishing industry, she worked for months on a project… and she’d deal with editors that could see the whole picture.
Look at your blog… the sitemap. Look for the whole, the posts you never wrote that you thought you had, the posts where you keep repeating yourself.
Be the sensible blogger – don’t start you morning by reading feeds, unless you write about current news. We blog at the moment, but you should step back and think about it. The wiser blogger calmly writes, and therefore the calmer reader takes it in better.
A successful blog is one you come upon for information, and they are successful. Your blog should be you.
Blog for you, and too you.
People want to do business with those that are like them.
Are you twittering? Are you having intercourse with your computer?
Are you blockquoting? Are you just plagiarizing? Are you talking about nothing, with no focus?
1000 years from now, all you said will be preserved. That’s what the future is. Your blogging for the future. Do you think about that when you write?
“People are still writing for their 8th grade teacher… Are you writing for your eighth grade teacher? Do you remember your eighth grade teacher? I do she was bitch.”
Instead leave incomplete thoughts, since incomplete thoughts lead your readers to complete them.
Don’t reply back to every comment, but show that you care.
Comments on other blogs. And first thing, say something intelligent.
Our responsibility as bloggers is to help other bloggers contribute, don’t comment a complete idea. That’ll allow someone else to finish the comment, and keep the conversation going.
She lived in Israel, so she knows terrorism. Therefore she can handle comments.
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The issue of timeless content, or is current more popular? You never know whats going to be popular. And you never know when it will become popular. If you write timeless, you may find it become popular years later.
To fight comment spam install use Akismet, Spam Karma and Bad Behavior. And make sure to actually vote it as spam if it slips through… so you too can halp stop it.
And we go to break.
Edit (7/25/7) – Lorelle was nice enough to create a SlideShow of her Presentation (She hadn’t used one) and post it for those who couldn’t make it.
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John Pozadzides of One Man Blog has posted these videos of this session.
PART I
PART II
