Jon Rays Blogging Tips for Beginners

Jon Ray from Suited Productions has hit the blogging ground RUNNING. My personal ego surf found this post at his new site, Who is Jon Ray?, and that post really inspired me. Hell, click through just to see the amazing graphic with his post. Jon takes a mean self-portrait.

The short notes on Jon’s advice was:

Blog the way you want to blog.
Blog with something personal mixed into your post.
Make it useful.
Start a conversation.
Have fun!

How amazing. He’s got it so right here. Everything after those five points is all in the execution, and Jon’s got some great “beginner’s mind” perspective in his blog post. Give it a read, and consider subscribing, because I think Jon is creative, inventive, and has a business mind mixed with an art mind. These, my friends, are the most dangerous (in the good sense) minds out there!

5 Ways to Be Yourself and Boost Blog Traffic. – Who is Jon Ray.

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http://jessicagoldharalson.com Jessica

IMHO, “Make it useful” and “Start a conversation” are two of the big principles most amateur bloggers miss.

What do you think is the best way to engage readers in a conversation on blogs? Asking direct questions? Writing as if you are speaking directly to your audience? Thoughts?
http://jessicagoldharalson.com Jessica

IMHO, “Make it useful” and “Start a conversation” are two of the big principles most amateur bloggers miss.

What do you think is the best way to engage readers in a conversation on blogs? Asking direct questions? Writing as if you are speaking directly to your audience? Thoughts?
http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

Hi Jessica– The best way to make conversations happen is to make people feel they have something to contribute. If you talk about huge things that other people might not “get,” you’re destined to be the only voice. If you give your ideas handles, that is, make the ideas such that other people can run with them and use them, everyone has an opinion.

Case in point: bacn. The guys who made that at PodCamp Pittsburgh (Andy Quayle, Tommy Vallier, Jessy Hambley, Val Had, Jason Head) have a winner. EVERYONE gets it; EVERYONE has an opinion. Hate it or not, they all get it.

Thus, Bacn is a hot search term.

For our blogs, the goal is to make things that others can run with and use. That’s how people participate.

Oh, and remove captcha, remove “you must be registered to comment,” add the feature “subscribe to comments.” Those things help, too.
http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

Hi Jessica– The best way to make conversations happen is to make people feel they have something to contribute. If you talk about huge things that other people might not “get,” you’re destined to be the only voice. If you give your ideas handles, that is, make the ideas such that other people can run with them and use them, everyone has an opinion.

Case in point: bacn. The guys who made that at PodCamp Pittsburgh (Andy Quayle, Tommy Vallier, Jessy Hambley, Val Had, Jason Head) have a winner. EVERYONE gets it; EVERYONE has an opinion. Hate it or not, they all get it.

Thus, Bacn is a hot search term.

For our blogs, the goal is to make things that others can run with and use. That’s how people participate.

Oh, and remove captcha, remove “you must be registered to comment,” add the feature “subscribe to comments.” Those things help, too.

Jon Rays Blogging Tips for Beginners

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