One of the biggest myths in blogging is that if you write great content audiences will flock to you. Wrong. Remember the old adage, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it…” That’s precisely what happens to a great blog without some promotion or visibility.
Now you could hope on Twitter and blast out your latest post everyday. You could confuse all your friends and family on Facebook with business posts, when they were looking for new pictures of little Bobby. However, let me tell you a little secret about growing a huge (relevant) audience for your own blog.
Go where the eyeballs already are and impress the heck out of them.
That’s right, guest posting is one of the leading ways top bloggers get there. Do you doubt the formula? Check out what used to get Chris Brogan excited. Here is the subtle irony—guess who is the big dog now—the host or the guest?
Okay, so I’ve made my case for what you should be doing as a business blogger to grow and maybe even one day make some money with all that blogging. But, there is one thing I failed to mention—sometime getting a shot at guest blogging is hard. The blog publisher is taking a risk on you with their readership.
Today is your lucky day!
My friends over at Bloggertone.com in partnership with BizSugar.com are giving you a shot at the big time. They are going to let you post on Bloggertone.com and promote on BizSugar.com—tens of thousands of eyeballs are going to focus on your best. All that for FREE.
Not to sound like an Infomercial, but I’ve got to say it…”Wait there’s more!”
They’re going to give tons of prizes to the best. $6921 in prizes to be exact! The best part is that even the prizes will help your business grow. Check these out:
- Lead Page Machine – a software to automatically generate squeeze pages so that you can use this to tailor your squeeze pages to specific audiences, to build your email subscribers and increase your sales conversions. Valued at: $5200
- Animoto – a year’s membership to this easy tool which creates videos from photos. Valued at: $249
- Traction Call – a 45 minute call with the Traction Coach Gary Barnes to help you to quickly get some “sand under your wheels” so you can move forward toward the life you want to live. Valued at $175
- ClickMillionaires – 2 x 6-month membership to Scott Fox’s social network helping business owners upgrade their marketing to make more money online. Valued at $174
- 5 Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success – this CD and report by Denise Wakeman reveals how you can easily make your blog a winner. Valued at $97
- Start.Grow.Run – 8 x a software package with 45 essential tools and services for the 3 different phases of your business. Valued at $49.95 each
- Plus there are 2 books for both the winners of the Top 10 Titles and the Top 10 Commenters. And the books include:
- Wordtracker Masterclass: Blogging For Business – 50 Steps to Building Traffic and Sales by Chris Garrett. 5 books valued at $39 each
- Sociable by Shane Gibson & Stephan Jagger. 5 books valued at $25 each
- New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg. 5 books valued at $16.49 each
- Guest Posting by Chris Garrett. 5 ebooks valued at $10 each
So, are you in? It’s easy to win…even if you don’t have the time to whip up a guest post you can do the next best thing—leave a pity comment and win too!
There’s really nothing more to think about. Not putting this on today’s TODO list is going to cost you money one way or another. Find out more and get started now—>Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest.
P.S., You didn’t think I was going to sit on the sidelines did you? Check out my entry: 5 Ways Small is Beating Big for Flagship Clients.
Vote it up on BizSugar: http://www.bizsugar.com/sugartone/5-ways-small-is-beating-big-for-flagship-clients-|-sales/
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P.S.S., I wouldn’t ask you to do something I wouldn’t do. Leave me a link to your article entry and I will do the same. That gives you another 6500+ eyeballs on Twitter. Why are you still here? Go submit your article!
