Mike's Blog Marketing Tips

Here are five marketing strategies, in addition to the strategies in my previous post, that you can use to market your blog, a product or a service. Just keep an open mind, have fun and keep in mind that these techniques, while mostly for sales bloggers, can be modified by any personal blogger to their benefit.

There is a strategy called “Sell and Raise”. This is a strategy where you tell a prospect that if they reach a certain level in sales, you’ll add another X amount of commission to each sale they make. This is more of an affiliate marketing strategy, but for those of you who are personal bloggers, I think if you played with this, you could effectively use this as a way to motivate readers to sign up for your newsletter or the newsletter that you’re soon to have. In fact, think of your blog as a membership site and remember, the reward for your subscribers doesn’t have to be $$, but rather Entrecard credits, advertising, a guest post or whatever. You get the idea.  Read more... (612 words, 16 images, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)