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!