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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

For several years, I’ve been using Reader Avatars (also called Reader Profiles or Personas) on my blogs – and I’ve found them very effective and helpful. To create your first reader avatar, you’ll need to spend some time thinking and writing about a type of reader that you’re either attempting to reach or who is already reading your blog.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

Buzz Marketing for Technology

We read to make us feel good, about what we’ve done or what we could do or what others have done — even about what a smart person we look like reading such a smart book on the subway — and not as an exercise in personal growth. When you’re done, give the book away, so someone else can learn from it. Make a list.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either. The network creates community. Forums create discussion.

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

ProBlogger

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?). I’m going to get a book deal. It pretty much destroyed the community I’d created. Build community. But don’t stop there. Create content. Find readers.

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5 Bloggers Who Started a Blog in 2017 and Survived

ProBlogger

It can be quite overwhelming, and sets you up for the comparison game and ‘perfection paralysis’ – not wanting to hit publish until your blog looks perfect. Just recently we asked the ProBlogger Community to submit their stories of starting a blog, and their tips for those considering starting a blog in 2018.

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Influencers- Friend or Stranger?

Laurel Papworth

Digg is a “citizen editor&# site – you find (not write) a cool article, bookmark it on the site and the community votes for it to go on the front page. Ok, lets go into the background of why this shift is important with regards to how influencers are effective in online communities. Watch out Twitterati! Context is King.

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What's Your Government 2.0 Personality Type?

Social Media Strategery

community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of different people, all with different motivations, frustrations, and aspirations. You would do well to shift more of your energy away from selling your product and instead focus more on providing value to the community. Development Social Media What’s Your Government 2.0

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