Yesterday, I watched a live web event of Chris Brogan speaking here in Nashville and I submitted the following question during the Q&A session: What methods could I use as a personal content blogger to extend my audience? His answer was “be helpful”, which was in itself pretty helpful but now I’m trying to apply that to my specific purpose. He went on to suggest, for instance, that I could blog about my diet strategy and progress. As a result I’d be helping someone else out who is looking to achieve the same goals. I get that and it makes sense, but now I’m curious as to what my niche is.
I have many interests that are very diverse and dissimilar. I’m worried that by using all of these interests to provide helpful suggestions I would cause incongruity in the subject matter of my blog and therefore will have no defined target audience. Should I narrow down my subject matter to include only a small number of interconnected interests?
The reason for blogging is to hone my writing skills and get feedback from readers. I’d like an enriching community experience where other writers and readers can come together and discuss various topics of interest. How do I best achieve that and who do I define as my target audience?
I want to be helpful and I’m going to follow Chris’s advice. Why wouldn’t I? He’s been successful in it and he’s right. I also came away from yesterday’s event with an armload of new connections who were all following the #cbnash trend on Twitter and were attending or watching the webcast. I took away a lot of great information and ideas so a big THANK YOU to Chris for just being himself. If you’re interested in seeing some of the event go here (thanks to @gavoweb for the post and vid).
If you have any suggestions for this aspiring writer and blogger I’d love to hear from you. What tips do you have for reaching an audience and being a successful blogger?
I’m wondering how to find my place in the blogging/social networking community.
Yesterday I watched a live webcast of Chris Brogan speaking here in Nashville and I submitted the following question during the Q&A session: What methods could I use as a personal content blogger to extend my audience? His answer was “be helpful”, which was in itself pretty helpful but now I’m trying to apply that to my specific purpose. He went on to suggest, for instance, that I could blog about my diet strategy and progress. As a result I’d be helping someone else out who is looking to achieve the same goals. I get that and it makes sense, but now I’m curious as to what my niche is.
I have many interests that are very diverse and dissimilar. I’m worried that using the interests to provide helpful suggestions that I would not have congruent subject matter throughout my blog and therefore no defined target audience. Should I narrow down my subject matter to include only a small number of interconnected interests?
My purpose in blogging is to hone my writing skills and get feedback from the readers. I’d like an enriching community experience where other writers and readers come together and discuss various subjects. How do I best achieve that and who do I define as my target audience?
I want to be helpful and I’m going to follow Chris’s advice. Why wouldn’t I? He’s been successful in it and he’s right.
If you have any suggestions for this aspiring writer and blogger I’d love to hear from you. What tips do you have for reaching an audience and being a successful blogger?
How do you find the balance between your online life and your physical life? A concern that has come up recently here at home is how to appropriately devote time between social networking and raising a family. I’ve decided that I’m passionate enough about writing that I want to devote a lot of time to it. Part of that involves blogging and garnering a following within certain social networks to amass an audience. I need that audience to use as a sounding board to help refine my craft.
