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A Death In The Family. Missing Michael O'Connor Clark

Twist Image

I joined Twist Image in 2002. It was more of a publishing platform than an engine of marketing. Still, there were enough marketing bloggers (or people dabbling in the comment section) that a strong and passionate community was evolving. communications. online community. publishing. startup community.

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

ProBlogger

As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. When I started Digital Photography School I created avatars to represent the different types of people I’d be writing for. Sounds a bit like an avatar, doesn’t it?). It pretty much destroyed the community I’d created. Build community. Some of them worked.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. Gradually over time, I began to deepen my avatars.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

ProBlogger

Really great conference, very good community. I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. We have about 40 writers, we publish 14 articles a week. Ideally, what you want to create is some kind of avatar or persona or reader profile for your blog. I think that’s a useful exercise to do.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

087: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post. For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. Around his voice was this community. Some people would call them personas or avatars today.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

I’ll talk about evolving your engagement with your readers, how to build community on your blog, how to find new readers for your blog, and then, how to monetize your blog. . We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. ” Now, I started blogging in 2002.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

Once I shared a restaurant review with some colleagues and saw that review spread across my network and encourage dozens of people to try that restaurant I had what I call my "peanut butter chocolate" moment about how blogging and online community was a natural communications and marketing channel. I am not a pioneer of social media.