Welcome to our Blogging
for Beginners Workshop!
Next Class:
Sunday, August 29, 2010
If you’ve been thinking about starting a blog . . .
Or if you’ve had one for less than a year. . .
This workshop will teach you how to . . .
- Develop a Compelling Concept
- Come Up with Killer Content
- Write Magnetic Headlines
- Rank higher on Google
- Triple your traffic
- . . . and start making money.
(Don’t worry, you don’t have to go to the site on the video–you can sign up for the class right here. Just scroll down).
You probably have a ton of questions about your blog.
And nobody to answer them.
Questions like:
- Do I have a compelling concept?
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 is the co-host of HBO’s popular sex advice series, The Sex Inspectors and author of 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. Alvear has made guest appearances on the Today Show, Tyra Banks and The Greg Behrendt Show, authors a relationship advice column syndicated to the gay press and blogs at www.mikealvear.com (where he’s always looking for guest bloggers–check it out!)
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Are You Ready to Start a Blog?
(Or Turbo-charge the One You’ve Got?)
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, August 29, 2010
Take a look at the 6-hour course outline:
How to Write Better Blogs
- Expert tips for outstanding web writing
- How to blog with Magnetic Headlines
- How to make a blog with a “heat map” that attracts readers.
- Create a sneeze page and propel readers deep into your blog
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.
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:
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’ve sold out every Atlanta blog class.
Next Class:
Sunday August 29, 2010
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.
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confirming your seat.Tickets available only online.
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* Includes finger food, champagne and inappropriate conversation.
The Atlanta Blogging Course is held at Telephone Factory Lofts, 828 Ralph McGill Blvd. #106,
Atlanta, GA 30306.
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!
Email us at: info@michaelalvear.com
Or call our office: 404-444-8324
HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE USEFUL THINGS YOU’LL LEARN IN THE ATLANTA BLOG CLASS:
- 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?
These are just some of the golden nuggets you can expect to walk away with in our Atlanta blogging class.
* Fill out the simple questionnaire you’ll get when you sign up. It’ll ask for the URL address of your blog (so that we can analyze it before class) and a few other details.
* 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.
Speaking of Humor…
Wait’ll you get a load of where we conduct our seminar:
SISTER LOUISA’S ART GALLERY
IN THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING ROOM.
Where the sign greeting you is, “Come on in, Precious!”
And the motto is, “The higher the hair the closer to God.”
And the art hanging on the walls includes the Virgin Mary asking the Baby Jesus, “Who’s Your Daddy!?”
Like we said, 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’ve sold out every Atlanta blog class.
Next Class:
Sunday August 29, 2010
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.
We’re located just north of Downtown Atlanta in the Poncey-Highlands area. Our Atlanta blogging seminar students come from Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett County. They come from midtown, Marietta, Norcross, Sandy Springs, near the perimeter, outside the perimeter, on Peachtree or north of metro Atlanta. That includes Suwanee, Lithonia, Lawrenceville, Kennesaw, Emory, Douglasville, Decatur, Chamblee, Conyers, Buford, Alpharetta, Saturn, Pluto, and the ocassional escapee from the nearest black hole.
Atlanta Blog Class
Hollis Gillespie & Mike Alvear
1579 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, GA 30324
Terms and conditions subject to change.
Copyright 2009 Hollis Gillespie & Mike Alvear | All rights reserved
Write a check for the cost of the Atlanta blog course payable to “Hollis Gillespie” and mail to Hollis Gillespie, P.O. Box 7321, Atlanta, GA 30357-0321.
Using the contact page, send Hollis a note. Include your name, email, which seminar you are signing up for, and the date the check was mailed.
3. After Hollis receives your check, you will get a confirmation email notifying you that you are registered in the Atlanta blog course.
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We’re located just north of Downtown Atlanta in the Poncey-Highlands area. Our Atlanta blogging seminar students come from Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett County. They come from midtown, Marietta, Norcross, Sandy Springs, near the perimeter, outside the perimeter, on Peachtree or north of metro Atlanta. That includes Suwanee, Lithonia, Lawrenceville, Kennesaw, Emory, Douglasville, Decatur, Chamblee, Conyers, Buford, Alpharetta, Saturn, Pluto, and the ocassional escapee from the nearest black hole.
