As a blogger, there are many things that we are great at or just pick up along the way. We know how to write (trust me, even if you think you’re a horrible writer - you aren’t), we learn how to market ourselves using social media (this comes naturally, tweeting new blog posts, commenting on others posts) but the one thing that we don’t really pick up is - design. 

Here are simple tweaks you can make to your blog sidebar to make it reader-friendly and organized. 

The number one rule for making your blog posts go viral is to make sure it is easily shared by others. When I launched my blog 3 weeks ago, I made sure to promote it using Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook Groups. This is called actively promoting your content, where you go out and do work to get others to read your content.

But, just this week I discovered something that made promoting my content so much easier. It’s something called Sumome and it’s freaking awesome. Why?

I knew the importance of Facebook groups though, but it never applied to me since I was stuck in a weird limbo - my business hadn’t launched yet and I didn’t have any blog posts to share.

How could you get readers from a Facebook group? How do you get clients from participating in threads? And most of all, how do you market yourself? If those are questions that are going through your head as you’re reading this… you’re in luck. 

I was able to attend Snap! The Instagram workshop held in Venice Beach this past Saturday. As it was my first workshop, I was so excited but at the same time very nervous. What if I didn’t meet anyone? What if everyone was in their own clique and I will be left standing alone? What if I want to leave early? 

If you’re just starting out on Twitter, and you’re looking for a way to grow your blog + gain new followers, then you have to participate in a Twitter chat. 

Why? Because not only can Twitter Chats offer insight into a problem you might be having, but they’ll also help you grow followers on Twitter, and create relationships with other bloggers!