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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus.

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

ProBlogger

As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. Engage with your audience, and find out what they need. Not did help me build engagement and relationships with my readers, it also helped me understand who they were and what they needed. Sounds a bit like an avatar, doesn’t it?). So how do you build engagement?

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The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs

ProBlogger

Driving traffic to your blog – as a result of your engagement, you will often get people checking out your blog. Idea generation – often, when you engage in conversation in other blogs comments, you get ideas for your own blog posts. In fact this advice is Day 20 in our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

Take ownership of building engagement with your readers. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience. Focus less on the number of eyeballs, and more on engaging the hearts of the right readers. Teach and engage readers through challenges using various mediums.

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

ProBlogger

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. Ideally, what you want to create is some kind of avatar or persona or reader profile for your blog. Include a sentence or two about who is reading your blog, and maybe refer to the avatar if you’ve done that exercise.

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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. . ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. It’s engagement. A lot of it is dodgy.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

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. Some people would call them personas or avatars today. I know some people like personas and avatars, other people don’t. Whether you’ve got an avatar or not, understand these things.

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