Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience

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Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience is a topic that I was planning on covering in this blog; but when the opportunity arose to have this topic sponsored by SponsoredReviews, I couldn't put it off any longer. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, they have made this posting already on the SponsoredReviews blog. They offer up 27 + 1 (or 28 for those of us that are mathematically challenged :-) ) tips for building and maintaining a blog audience. Their list is fairly encompassing and all great tips for the new blogger to take into account.

One of their tips is to "Avoid Gimmicks". That is a good tip; as many times these gimmicks can discredit your site. I would offer, though, that the line that separates the gimmick from a great promotional tool is fairly blurry. I would like to offer up another tip that some might consider a "Gimmick".

Run a contest on your site. It can be a contest to request links to your site from other bloggers, to request comments on your site, or to subscribe to your RSS feed. Whatever you do though, make sure you give your readers a reason to participate. If it is a successful contest, your current readers will tell their friends and your traffic will increase.

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Goal Setting

Are you as organized as you would like to be? Have you achieved all your goals that you have set out to? Have you even listed out what your goals are? I have just been presented with the opportunity to generate some buzz about this goal setting software that will allow you to answer yes to all of those questions. This software is designed to aid you with all stages of goal setting and achievement. Those stages cover everything from identifying those goals, to tracking them, all the way through achieving them. Upon reaching designated numerical milestones, you have the option of displaying motivating graphs and charts to graphically represent your progress. Don't think that this software will only help your professional career, it can also help you reach your personal goals as well.

Return Address Labels

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If you know me, you know I'm lazy. Not your everyday ordinary lazy, I'll take any measures available to me if it will take less effort on my part. For some reason, my family members still like to receive "snail" mail (as opposed to email) on occasion. When writing these letters, I found a way to cut the step of writing my return address on the envelope now that I can easily order address labels online. Heck, I can even choose a set that reflects my personality best. Now I just have to find one that says "lazy".