Blogging Strategies – Networking

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Blogging Strategies – Networking

By Deb Gallardo

I just came across two blog posts about blog networking, a term I’d not heard before and couldn’t quite wrap my mind around. Once I’d read about it, the concept made total sense. It so sensible, in fact, I’m including it here amidst the stories ideas and creative writing exercises.

Why would I do that on a blog geared mostly to fiction writers? Because most published authors have blogs, as do those still aspiring to publication. Blogs are tools all writers should utilize to build a following and get targeted eyeballs on their writing. In this first of a two-part series, comes some background advice. Good stuff here.

…What are the real differences between what you’re doing compared to a blogger you think is successful? They are not somehow magically just better than you. They are not doing the same things you’re doing, but just more of them, or faster. No. Successful bloggers are doing entirely different things than what you’re doing.

One third writing, two-thirds networking
Although you might think so based on what I said above, successful bloggers do not spend most of their time blogging. They spend most of their time networking. One of the biggest “secrets” to successful blogging isn’t blogging at all–it’s building mutually beneficial relationships with other people. Read the entire Blogging Strategies article. (Opens in a new window.)

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