How do I start promoting my blog without feeling like a bragging, dancing monkey? 

• What kind of blog marketing strategy should I start with?g?
• How do I balance creating content with marketing content?
• What are some blog marketing exercises I should try?

Links to references made in the podcast:

• The episode where Jema explains why it’s an abuse of your privilege to feel insignificant
• The How to Hire an Entire Marketing Team without Spending Any Money article
• HeartandHustleKD.com – the home of Kellie Drewelow, coach for multipotentialites i.e. people who are doing a million things all the time
• How to Juggle Multiple Projects – the episode Kellie loved
• Podcast Movement 28-Day Challenge – the awesome free way to start-your-podcast.  (We used it to start T2B, and it’s an example of something that we are always marketing for free because it’s awesome and we got such good value out of it.)
• The SEO Challenge sign-up!  Add your name if you want to get onboard for the next challenge.
• The Monthly Report episode where Berna learned how to measure (among other things) the marketing performance she hopes to see after implementing ideas from this episode.
•  Places to talk to us online:
  • Ticket2Blog.com
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • New Blogger Support Crew (also Facebook)

 

Timestamp Listening:

• 1:14 . . . How to get over fears of self-promotion
• 6:44 . . . Berna’s epiphany about how to measure herself as a creator
• 7:40 . . . 3 things that will quiet your marketing fears
• 8:53 . . . Why your marketing efforts are NOT you standing on a stage shouting vulnerably to everyone in the world
• 10:56 . . . Berna’s current ideas about what “marketing” is
• 11:44 . . . The 3 most important digital marketing habits to cultivate
• 16:37 . . .  How to escape the worst parts of a marketing strategy
• 17:49 . . .  Blog marketing that always feels awesome and fun
• 19:09 . . .  3 marketing strategies you should use, why they’re hard, and how they get easier
• 23:07 . . . Why you should implement these blog marketing tips only once per month
• 24:35 . . . The easy way to balance time to content creation & content marketing
• 27:24 . . . Berna’s self-assigned homework from the episode
• 28:22 . . . An easy way to make the world more YOU-friendly
• 29:45 . . . What Berna’s most dreading in her nomad life… and as a people pleaser
• 30:58 . . . What Jema is most dreading in her nomad life… and as a people pleaser
• 32:35 . . . Outtakes!

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