A small
number of my blog audience have complained about my website not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Safari.
A number of my blog audience have complained about my site not working correctly in Explorer but looks great in Chrome.
A small
number of my blog audience have complained about my blog not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Firefox.
Not exact matches
As Joe explains, if your
blog audience numbers stay flat month over month but the composition
of the
audience includes more designated accounts, that's a marketing success.
The impact you are making can be determined by proof
of audience engagement such as how many subscribers are on your email list, the
number of blog comments left, site traffic, and testimonials.
Blogads are usually quite inexpensive for the
number of people they allow you to reach (though prices on popular
blogs have gone up significantly in the past few years), and they're putting you before a targeted
audience: activists on a red - meat wave - the - bloody - flag political
blog, pacifists on a peace - oriented site, enviros on a green energy
blog, and so on.
Though the rise
of political
blogs and the netroots in this decade has diluted the place
of Libertarians online, even today the
audiences of tech - heavy sites such as Slashdot and Digg show a fondness for civil liberties and anti-authoritarian ideas: one sign
of Paul's rise has been the large
number of votes for stories about him on Digg.
The idea is ensuring there is a healthier mix between those finding your fashion
blog for the first time and the
number of returning
audience.
Examples include: testimonials already secured by celebrities, famous authors, or other influential people; firm commitments (sometimes in writing) from influential people to help promote your book to their
audience when the time is right; you having a massive mailing list or social media following; you having a website and / or
blog with massive traffic and / or comments (with the
numbers to prove it); your own radio show, TV show, or syndicated column; past and upcoming media appearances; past and upcoming speaking engagements in front
of lots
of people; pre-sale commitments from corporations or organizations; having your own publicist or being able / willing to hire one.
The greater
number of blogs you can appear on, the more you will expand your
audience and extend your reach.
By establishing relationships with your target
audience and those who serve them, you'll develop opportunities to become a guest blogger on a
number of highly targeted
blogs, creating a win / win / win situation.
-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side
of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing)
of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your
audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous
number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)
In a
number of past posts over at Coyote
Blog, I have noticed the phenomenon
of published studies whose data does nothing to bolster the theory
of anthropogenic global warming adding in a line or two in the article saying that «
of course the author's support anthorpogenic global warming theory» in the same way movies routinely assure
audiences that «no animals were hurt in the filiming
of this movie.»
Others
blogs, well, they have other priorities, A primary one would seem to be entertainament / PR, where maintaining an
audience is paramount and the
number of comments on a post is a measure
of worth.
In assessing damages, the court looked at the size
of Levant's
blog and his
audience using the
number of comments as a gauge [para. 137].
This person could be a library staff member, a knowledge management department member, a clerk, someone in professional development, or any
number of other people depending on the focus
of the
blog and the target
audience.
As pointed out here by Scott Greenfield on his Simple Justice
blog, Gradeless appears to have found a way to monetize his massive following on Twitter through a service called Sponsored Tweets, which hooks «Tweeters» like Gradeless up with advertisers who want to reach their supposedly vast
audiences (although as discussed here, a person's
numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figure).
My $.02: Let us not judge a
blog by the size
of its
audience or the
number of its awards, but by the value it provides its readers, however esoteric its topic.
Mr Justice Warby ruled that he could hear the claim because Sloutsker «had, and has, a substantial and widespread reputation in this jurisdiction» and although the posts were made on Russian
blogs in Russian, to a primarily Russian
audience, a significant
number of people in England were likely to have seen them.
RPR has been posting a
number of articles, and passing on tips and strategies shared by RPR users across the country, such as our recent
blog post, Customizing Facebook Ad Manager to Suit Your Particular
Audience Needs / Interests.