Find Out How You Can Use Blogging To:
• Sell Your book
• Promote Your Business
• Sell Your Services
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Hurry! We Always Sell Out
You probably have a ton of questions about your blog.
And nobody to answer them.
Questions like:
Where’s the traffic?
Why is nobody linking to me?
How do I write better headlines?
How do I get more people to read my blog?
How do I get ranked higher on Google?
Should I rename my blog?
How do I get people to comment on my posts?
How do I make money off my blog?
What’s the fastest way to come up with keywords?
Is Google Image the only place to get photos?
How can I tell if an image is copyrighted?
How do I get advertisers?
What’s the difference between a visitor and a page view?
How do I promote my blog with Facebook & Twitter?
What about YouTube & Linked-in?
What’s the best way to write my About Me page?
What’s an RSS feed?
How can I get more subscribers to my blog?
How do I track subscribers?
How do I get people to read more than just one post?
You can get all your questions answered by sitting across the table from the irrepressible back page columnist for Atlanta Magazine, Hollis Gillespie, and whiz-bang columnist for Creative Loafing (The Sexorcist) and Huffington Post blogger Mike Alvear.
That’s one of the most important benefits you’ll get from the Atlanta Blog Seminar:
Personal Attention From Two of the Most Prominent Bloggers in Atlanta.
Hollis Gillespie
Syndicated humor columnist and author of the popular Atlanta magazine blog “Inappropriate Conversation.” Gillespie is also the author of three top-selling memoirs (titled Bleachy-Haired Bitch; Tales from a Bad Neighborhood, Confessions of a Recovering Slut and Other Love Stories, and Trailer Trashed; My Dubious Attempts Toward Upward Mobility), a radio commentator for NPR and Georgia Public Broadcasting, the personal-essay judge for the Writers Digest annual creative-writing competition, a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, television writer and accomplished trapeze artist (not really, but she’s bendy).
Mike Alvear
Huffington Post blogger and Creative Loafing columnist Mike Alvear co-hosted HBO’s popular sex advice series, The Sex Inspectors and authored the books, Men Are Pigs But We Love Bacon, Alexander The Fabulous: The Man Who Brought The World To Its Knees, and Sex Inspectors Masterclass: How to Have an Amazing Sex Life. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Salon.com, and the Los Angeles Times. He’s an expert in selling ebooks online. Check out his catalogue for men looking for men.
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
OKAY, ENOUGH ABOUT US.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU…
Why would you
want to take the
Atlanta Blogging Workshop?
But also because you want to:
1. Sell Your Book
Think your publisher’s going to promote your book? Ha! You’ll be lucky if they return your calls. You need a platform. A blog will create buzz, attract readers and sell books. It’s Ground Zero for speaking engagements, workshops, and seminars. A blog is also a great way to get a book deal. If a publisher sees you’ve got a following they’ll come banging on your door.
2. Sell Your Services
Are you a designer? A photographer? An artist? A blog is the perfect avenue to showcase your work. Selling vintage art? Upload a picture and tell everyone the background and what moved you to buy it. Selling ecco clothing? Tell them how it got made. You gotta tell before you sell– and a blog is the ultimate soapbox.
3. Enhance Your Business
A blog can increase your visibility, excite customers, and add revenue. Whether you’re B2B or B2C, a blog will make you a more trusted, credible source–an indispensable “Go-To” space in your industry.
4. Break into Writing
A blog is a great opportunity to improve your writing in a real-world scenario –where you can get unvarnished opinions from people you don’t know. Better yet, it can build up your portfolio of essays, social commentary, poetry, advice columns and political observations. Oh, and it’ll give editors a one-stop-shopping link to your best work.
5. Express Yourself
A blog lets you join the conversation! You don’t have to have a business-related agenda to blog. You can do it as an artful form of self-expression.
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Are You Ready to Start a Blog?
(Or Turbo-charge the One You’ve Got?)
Stop Procrastinating!
Sign up for the only “Blogging Bootcamp” in Georgia. Our beginners and intermediate blog class shows you simple, step-by-step, easy-to-implement techniques that give you immediate results. This is not a conceptual seminar; it’s a how-to workshop, chock full of concrete tips that you can start using as soon as you leave.
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Hurry! We Always Sell Out!
Take a look at the 6-hour course outline:
How to Write Better Blogs
- Expert tips for outstanding web writing
- How to write magnetic headlines
- Why writing the title is often the best way to start a post
- How to come up with killer
How to Increase traffic to your blog
- Five things you can do to double your readers in 30 days.
- Writing secrets that’ll rank you higher on Google.(It’s about phrases not keywords).
- How to start a link exchange program (linking to other blogs to drive traffic).
How to use Social Media to promote your blog
- Write posts that go viral on Twitter.
- Set up Facebook so it automatically grabs your latest blog post and feeds it to your Status Page.
- Inventive ways of using YouTube, Flkr and ConstantContact
How to Improve the Look of Your Blog
- Which “Theme” should you start off with (or switch to?)
- Should you start –or move– your blog to its own domain or keep it hosted where it is?
- Color schemes, type faces, sidebar widgets, line spacing, oh my! What’s best for you?
- How to find the highest quality royalty-free images.
How to Make Money Blogging*:
- 5 ways to find direct advertisers for your blog
- The best ad networks to join (they’re free!)
- How to find a sponsor for your blog
- The 3 things you should look for in affiliate marketing (getting a cut of what you sell on your blog)
* Important! You must have a minimum of 15,000 to 20,000 page views a month before the $$$ start flowing in. The most critical thing you can do to generate revenue is to GROW TRAFFIC. No worries–we’ll show you how.
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
The Atlanta Blogging Workshop only costs:
$175
For a 6-hour blogging class, that works out to a little over $29 an hour. Such a deal! And in this intensely competitive environment, worth every penny. Especially when you consider one of the Atlanta Blogging Workshop’s main benefit:
GET A PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT OF YOUR BLOG
Make no mistake about it–you need another set of eyes to look at your work. Asking friends or family what they think of your blog is like asking them if they think those jeans make you look fat. They’re probably not going to be terribly honest. We don’t have any problem telling you those jeans look like you made a deal with the devil for your butt’s soul.
Whether you’re spot-on, need to move a few degrees over or need a head-to-toe revamp, you’re going to experience an enormous sense of relief when somebody outside of your family and friends gives you sound direction. And by the way, if you don’t have a blog, don’t sweat it–we’ll help you come up with a concept.
SIGN UP NOW AND TAKE YOUR BLOG TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
If you’re a professional, we’ll show you how to build expert status by sharing knowledge and being insanely useful to your readers.
If you’re a ‘civilian’ who wants to showcase your humor, political insight or social commentary, we’ll help you express it and get more people to read you.
Look what our students have to say about Atlanta’s only monthly blogging workshop:
Sign Up Now and Confirm Your Seat!
Hurry! We Always Sell Out!
Next Class:
Sunday, June 9, 2013
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
$175*
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* Includes finger food, champagne and inappropriate conversation.
The Atlanta Blogging Course is held at 695 Pylant St., Atlanta, GA, 30306. Email: shockingreallife@gmail.com. To register for any class by phone, call 678-661-7080
We can’t wait to strap a rocket to the back of your blog and watch you take off! See you at the seminar.
Best,
Hollis & Mike!
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Questions?
Email us at: shockingreallife@gmail.com. To register for any class by phone, call 678-661-7080
HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE USEFUL THINGS YOU’LL LEARN IN THE ATLANTA BLOG CLASS:
Did You Know…
- You can increase your Google ranking by labeling your images with relevant keywords?
- The best way to get people to read more than just one page is to “interlink posts” (end each post with a link to your other relevant posts)?
- That headlines that start with “What Everybody Ought to Know About ______” capture 50% more attention than those that don’t?
- Facebook has an application you can put on your browser that’ll automatically take the image and content of your latest post and place it in your status feed?
- The best way to prepare for blog writing is to use Twitter (it forces you to get to the point quickly and creatively in less than 140 characters)?
- There’s a simple HTML code you can use to solve one of the most frustrating aspects of blogging: placing side-by-side photos?
- That there’s a 3-step rule to incorporating keywords in the body of your copy?
- There are over 20 royalty-free image databases that compete with Google Image?
- That you should NEVER begin a post without searching for relevant keywords and keyword phrases in either Google Adwords, KeywordTracker or KeywordDiscovery?
- That the job of your headline is to get people to read the first line that comes after it? And that the job of the first line is to get people to read the second line (and so on)?
- That one of the best ways to find subjects to blog about is to search Technorati to see what the top blogs in your field are talking about?
- That the most effective way to get attention is to use keywords in the title of your posts?
- That the single most effective thing you can do to increase your Google search rank is to get bigger blogs linking to you?
Next Class: Sunday, June 9, 2013
These are just some of the golden nuggets you can expect to walk away with in our Atlanta blogging class.
* Bring your laptop to the class (we’ve got wifi).
* Start writing down your questions so that when you get to the workshop your mind won’t go blank.
* Bring a folder– you’re going to need it for all the leave-behind materials.
* Bring a sense of humor–you’re going to need that too. We don’t do boring.
ARE YOU READY TO PUT MORE BANG IN YOUR BLOG?
Then….
Sign Up Now and Confirm Your Seat!
Hurry! We Always Sell Out!
Next Class:
Sunday, June 9, 2013
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
$175*
100% Safe and Secure – We are PayPal verified. You can also skip PayPal and use your credit cards.
Click now and you’ll get an immediate email
confirming your seat.
Tickets available only online.
Rather pay by check? How…late 90‘s. Follow instructions below.
Terms and conditions subject to change.
Copyright 2013 Hollis Gillespie & Mike Alvear | All rights reserved
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