Category Archives: Pro Tips

Struggling to grow your mailing list? It’s your opt-in incentives (or lack thereof)

The team and I have been extremely busy with a super duper secret project that we’ve been working on lately and are revealing today — in this post actually!

A quick background story…

A few short years ago a few colleagues and I launched  a community link sharing and discussion platform called Snapzu.

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Pro Tip: Your blog community can help fuel true content automation

As a blogger, it’s fair to assume that your most important task is writing quality content for the enjoyment of your audience. When writing quality posts we generally follow a set of fairly straightforward guidelines – you know, the usual stuff; organizing, researching, writing, proofreading and editing. Continue reading Pro Tip: Your blog community can help fuel true content automation

Pro Tip: Breaking down the toughest obstacle to blogging success

We’ve all experienced it… Actually, many of us are struggling with it right now.

It’s the appropriately phrased “chicken and egg” problem of what came first — the chicken or the egg. This enigmatic conundrum is as as old as blogging itself, a dilemma between content creation and growing an audience. Continue reading Pro Tip: Breaking down the toughest obstacle to blogging success

Pro Tip: Engage with your audience, they need a leader!

It’s no secret that over the past few months I spent a sizable chunk of time helping bloggers get started with their new blog communities. It’s been a very rewarding experience, and I want to share the ins and outs of what I learned.

I had a chance to email, call and skype chat with bloggers such as yourself about their vision of what an ideal blog community can do for them. I found the feedback generally leans towards 5 particularly definitive expectations. Continue reading Pro Tip: Engage with your audience, they need a leader!

Pro Tip: Make your blog community official

Attention bloggers with freshly created communities on Snapzu!

Have you had a chance to seed your blog community with initial content? YES? Great! Now that you’re all set, it’s the perfect time to cut that proverbial celebratory ribbon and make it official.

How will your readers know they can jump in and take part?

I recommend following these four steps! I will explain why each one is extremely important for that initial “seeding” stage of your blog community below. Luckily, most take only a few minutes of your time. Continue reading Pro Tip: Make your blog community official

Pro Tip: You won’t believe how quick and easy it is to add content to your Snapzu community.

I’ve been in the business of building blogging communities for longer than I wish to admit. So it’s fair to say that, like you — I experienced my fair share of wins, fails and those glorious eureka moments. Building anything requires effort, and a community is no exception.

Over the years, I realized that there is one key characteristic that all successful blog communities share.

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Pro Tip: With your Snapzu blog community, you’re not alone.

Did you know that blogging dates all the way back to 1997?

Yep, it’s almost as old as the world wide web itself. It was called “weblogging” back then and started as a fancy way to keep an online journal for the tech savvy! In the couple of decades since, a LOT has changed, and the web as we know it today is filled with modern content management systems. CMS options like WordPress made blogging considerably more robust and accessible to the masses. This is great news of course, as few can build a blog/website from scratch! Continue reading Pro Tip: With your Snapzu blog community, you’re not alone.

Pro Tip: Your blog is your vision, extend it to your blog community!

When you create your blog community on Snapzu it becomes a part of thousands of other blogger communities! This is phenomenal news, because members from other communities can now discover and engage with you and your audience.

A very important goal to achieve early on is to personalize and unify the vision between your blog and your blog community. Continue reading Pro Tip: Your blog is your vision, extend it to your blog community!