Challenge: Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
Lesson 7 from: Blogging to Sell Your ProductsMegan Auman
Challenge: Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
Lesson 7 from: Blogging to Sell Your ProductsMegan Auman
Lesson Info
7. Challenge: Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:40 2How to Get Traffic to Your Online Store (With One Simple Marketing Action)
16:56 3But I Don't Have Time to Blog
12:36 4Setting Up Your Blog (as Quickly as Possible)
15:35 5Hot Seat: Choose Your Blogging Platform
03:32 6How to Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
19:59 7Challenge: Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
02:17 8The Role of Blogging in Your Business
21:15Creating Ideal Customer Profiles for Your Blog
18:30 10Hot Seat: Ideal Customer Profile
18:16 11Choosing an Angle for Your Blog
16:59 12Hot Seat: Choosing an Angle for Your Blog
05:14 13Challenge: Find Blogs to Inspire Your Content Strategy
02:46 14What Should You Blog About: Content Ideas for Your Blog
21:48 15Choosing Your Content Mix
01:47 16Hot Seat: Choosing Your Content Mix
06:58 17Creating Compelling (and Search-friendly) Post Titles
13:18 18Using Images in Your Blog Posts
22:51 19Tutorial: Creating Product Round-up Images for Your Blog
11:14 20Challenge: Brainstorm Your Next Four Blog Post Ideas
01:44 21Hot Seat: Four Blog Post Ideas
09:48 22Tutorial: How to Put a Blog Post Together
10:21 23Promoting Your Blog Posts
14:57 24Getting the Most Out of Your Blog
10:25 25Hot Seat: Blog Critique
06:22 26Measuring Results and Maintaining Momentum
25:37Lesson Info
Challenge: Turn a Social Media Post into a Blog Post
If all you did was turn one social media post a week into a blog post that's a pretty incredible marketing strategy right? If all you did was this, spent a couple minutes thinking about keywords, put that up there. That's 50 blog posts. In 15 minutes, right? So even if the only thing you did was this, that's a really, really great strategy. So this is where we're gonna start. So my challenge to you guys is right now, as you're watching at home you're going to do this. Obviously if you have not set up your blog yet, take 10 minutes, pick a platform, sign up for your blog. Then I want you guys to turn a social media post into a blog post. And then I want you to share. I wanna know that you guys actually did this. So I want you to tweet the link, it's kind of silly to post this on Instagram because you're pulling an image from Instagram, right? So don't make an Instagram post. As I said I want you to tweet the link. Or if you really want to take a picture of your computer and post it on I...
nstagram. Either way I want you to tag me, I want you to tag @creativelive. I want to see that you guys did this challenge. Because it's so easy, right? And then guess what? Now when you reposted the link, look you did even more marketing. So much marketing in 20 minutes, it's amazing. So if all you did was turn one social media post into one blog post every week you'd have a consistent blogging strategy. You guys posting to Instagram at least once a week? Boom, you're already creating content. Tawny's like um, no. (laughs) Maybe we should work on that if you're doing that. But so you can use the content that you're already creating and put together a consistent blogging strategy. And just taking a few minutes to think about keywords. To think about how your audience might find that post. It's gonna make it even more powerful.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials
Bonus Materials
Ratings and Reviews
Trang Le
I don't agree with Megan's assessment that writing a how-to process will only attract your peers and competitors, not your ideal customers. I know a lot of graphic designers who post design tutorials frequently and it only helps raising their profiles. Writing a how-to post doesn't have to be like shooting in your foot because: * You don't have to share everything. There's more to great designs than knowing how to draw a certain thing. Composition, color, typography etc all come into play. * Even if you're given a step by step tutorial, it's very likely that you will stumble into a lot of issues or it takes you too much effort and time to complete it and it's better to hire a professional designer. Web building tutorials are everywhere, but web developers and designers still have their places. There's a big difference between knowing and understanding. * Even if you're professional designer, sometimes it's better to buy from your colleague than to make it on your own because no designer is excellent at every aspect of design and for a designer, time is as much valuable as money. For example, web designer may need to purchase custom typefaces from a font designers, and reading a blog which indicates that the writer knew his stuff will inform the web designer to make a rightful decision. Other than that, the course is rich information packed with a lot of actionable strategies and real fact about the blogging landscape.
Varvara Lyalyagina
I went straight to Polyvore and created a blog post. Not as fast as Megan was talking but who cares the blog post created and this is the best result of the training. http://hometocome.com/2017/05/plany-na-leto-2017.html Feeling super motivated. Megan makes it sound easy to complete and absolutely not overwhelming. This training is like a fresh air. Thank you!
a Creativelive Student
Lucky me! I stumbled upon this class and watched in live on air last night. I've now bought it! There is gold in this class and totally recommend it to anyone. Megan is so easy to listen to and I'm looking at her other classes too! Thanks Megan. You just made blogging a lot more fun! x