FAMP: Call for Blogs
Ok, folks. I've given you my basics on blogging from a marketing perspective. Yes, I have more to deliver and I will continue, but I think we have enough to begin the blogging critique I mentioned before. So starting now, From A Marketing Perspective is being turned on any of you willing souls who would like to offer up your beautiful blogs for critique and feedback.
Guidelines:
To submit your blog for feedback, email me at laurarbarnes@gmail.com with FAMP as the subject. Include the name of your blog. Notice there is an "R" between Laura and Barnes in my email. If you don't include that R, it will go to some other Laura Barnes who is also in marketing and is really cool because she forwards some of my mail to me, but I don't think she'd help out in this instance.
Blogs that are submitted for critique will be given a scheduled day (a Monday) where I will share my thoughts (and sometimes other guest marketers) as part of my series From A Marketing Perspective and then I will turn it over to the readers to remark in comments.
It doesn't sound too painful, does it? Come on, you guys submit your writing for critique all the time. This is a piece of cake.
Here are some of the elements I'll look at and some posts where you can find more details:
Guidelines:
To submit your blog for feedback, email me at laurarbarnes@gmail.com with FAMP as the subject. Include the name of your blog. Notice there is an "R" between Laura and Barnes in my email. If you don't include that R, it will go to some other Laura Barnes who is also in marketing and is really cool because she forwards some of my mail to me, but I don't think she'd help out in this instance.
Blogs that are submitted for critique will be given a scheduled day (a Monday) where I will share my thoughts (and sometimes other guest marketers) as part of my series From A Marketing Perspective and then I will turn it over to the readers to remark in comments.
It doesn't sound too painful, does it? Come on, you guys submit your writing for critique all the time. This is a piece of cake.
Here are some of the elements I'll look at and some posts where you can find more details:
- Overall look
- Background color
- Cluttered?
- Use of color/photos
- Font
- Depth
- Navigation
- Profile picture
- Linked up?
- Do I know who you are?
- Connect to your writing?
- Contact information
- Connect to social media?
- Writing consistency
- Do people know your schedule?
- Content
- Title of blog posts
- Blog message
- Exclamation points
- Length of posts
- Commentability
- Response to comments
- Link within
- Ease of following
- Easy to share
- Ease of finding top posts
- Searchability
If you want specific advice about marketing your blog or wonder if a certain element is working or not, be sure to ask in your email.
