Blogs occupy a large chunk of many people’s days. They start off in the morning reading the latest posts of several blogs they keep track of. Often, these blogs are read for information, entertainment, and new ideas. Millions of people are now blogging, reaching out to unheard-of audiences, and acquiring numbers that television executives and publishers would love to have a piece of. In fact, that’s why many tech-centered television shows invite bloggers on to talk about what they’re doing, and why publishers are signing up bloggers to write books about their sites.
As a blogger myself, and as a professional writer, I’m very interested in learning how to blog better. I also want an idea of how to figure out exactly who my audience is and what they want.
I received Stephan Grenier’s book Blog Blazers because he had noticed my Amazon.com reviews and was impressed enough to send me a copy to review. I initially started doing book reviews for Amazon simply to keep track of what books I had read. That was before the site started keeping track of all my purchases and letting me know what I had bought so I wouldn’t buy it twice.
I ended up becoming a top 500 reviewer at Amazon. Then started blogging here, specializing in book reviews. From that I figured I might as well start hosting my own reviews on a book review blog. That’s how Bookhound came to be born. Over the past year-plus, my book review site has garnered a lot of attention — and I’ve gotten a lot of free books to review.
Grenier blogs as well and his premier site for non-specialty readers is Follow Steph. As it turns out, he obviously had a lot of the same questions and goals in mind as I do. He picked out 40 of the top bloggers and asked them questions about their sites.
Those questions include: what are your best tips for writing a successful blog post, what are your main avenues for marketing your blog, what was your most successful blog post ever, what are the most common mistakes new bloggers make? All of these are questions I am interested in.
Thankfully, there were a lot of answers that were the same, so I felt certain I was on the right track. Also thankfully, these blog creators went off on tangents and talked about more information than was required by the questions. I learned a lot of information in a very short time. I also learned about possibilities I hadn’t even entertained before reading the book.
Article comments
1 - Debra Gaynor
Would you be interested in assisting with a book promotion. I can send you a book for review. In July you post your review. The author is willing to guest on your blog.
2 - Debra Gaynor
In July we will bring you Rick and Bobo the first book by the Ventrillo Brothers.. If you would like to host Rick and Bobo on your blog - please contact Debra
We are looking for people to read and review the book, we will have a link to a book trailer about the book and an author interview.
We would like for you to review the book and place the review on your website. The Ventrillo's are eager to visit your blog and take questions from your readers.
Rick and Bobo is an action adventure book. I believe the focus is YA.
The lead characters are two brothers, Rick and Ray (Bobo). After coming into a great deal of money the duo quickly become bored, and begin a funny and adventurous journey into the world of superheroes. Move over Spiderman, Batman and the Fantastic Four; there are new superheroes in town!
Thank you
Debra Gaynor