15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows - Day 9

Day 9 - My Blog, My Brand, Now Show Me the Money!
Day 9 - Assignment: Monetize what works for you

Having a customer services call center background, I did lots of user testing and provided valuable feedback regarding user experience, especially every time the systems were upgraded. So, I’m excited to sign up for UserTesting.com.

Who wouldn’t want to make oodles of money? I know I would! But Jessica makes a great point and key recommendation that you have to figure out what works for you and your style. Affiliate marketing might work great for some type of bloggers, yet direct sales (or even tips) might work better for others. You won’t really know unless you explore and consider what works for you. For me the timing of this post from Jessica is perfect, as I have always been intrigued with how bloggers go about advertising on their site. Since my blog is very new, I am still exploring blogging platforms, designs, images, logos, as well as what type of marketing I want to appear on my blog. I’m hoping to take lessons learned from JessicaKnows (and others) to revamp and re-launch my blog soon.

One thing for sure I am getting done today on my blog is adding a disclosure policy. Thanks Jessica for bringing up this very important (yet often overlooked) recommendation.

15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows - Day 8

Day 8 – How Promoting Others Will Make Your Brand Stronger
Day 8 - Assignment: Showing some love

This assignment is fairly easy since I naturally love to talk about what I love and let people know about it by spreading the love.

When something intrigues & interests me I usually talk and/or blog about it. Check out my previous post about #15Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows participant, Resourceful Mommy. I think she’s awesome!

When I find a site I love and love to refer to often I tag it on my del.icio.us page so that I have a virtual bookmark of it no matter what device I am on (my laptop, iPhone, or office PC). If a particular post or article is awesome and I want to spread some love by recommending it, I kirtsy it!

When I find a site that relates to me I add it to the “link love” list section in the sidebar of my blog. If you don’t see your blog or site listed, comment here or send me an email at adiwaly(at)gmail(dot)com. If it relates to me, I would love to show you some love!

I’ve seen badge codes on other sites and wondered how that whole thing worked. As you can see from my sidebar, I have picked up a few, such as 15 Days of Marking with Jessica Knows. I plan to continue picking up more badges as they interest or relate to me. What I really need to work on is creating my own MicroBlogginMom badge code. If anyone has ideas of how I can go about doing this, please comment and/or send me an email. Would love to have my own badge that others can grab, too!

15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows - Day 7

Day 7 - Building Your Brand through Self-Promotion
Day 7 - Assignment: MicroBlogginMom’s BIO & Press Page

I’ve updated my BIO with more details and was all set to add it to my About Me Page, but realized that Blogger is limited to 1200 characters & I am unable to format the paragraphs. So for now here it is in this blog post… until I can figure out how to get it moved over to the “View My Complete Profile” section in the sidebar.

About MicroBlogginMom
By day, I am a full time meeting manager, managing two 2-day training events per week for a training institute in Silicon Valley, CA.

By evening/night I am a full time mom & wife, managing a busy household. My responsibilities revolve around an over-worked, multi-tasking, Silicon Valley geek husband; a 4 year old princess ballerina; AND a “terrible 2” (but too cute) little man.

I love anything related to my “real time” life experiences. Which currently includes, Motherhood, Girlie Gadgets, Beauty, Fashion, anything Chic & Savvy AND of course sweet Deals & Bargains. If I’m able to find any spare time at all, I am usually reading blogs, writing blogs, maintaining our family website/blog, and I am oohhh so addicted to Twitter.

Continue to follow my Micro Blog and I will continue to share with you “tidbits” “tweets” “links” “cool finds” “short stories” and more of the joys, adventures, as well as challenges of being a busy working mom still wondering if there will ever be more than 24-hours in day.

I also just set up a Tumblr account and plan to build my Tumblr to use as my Press Page.

15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows - Day 6

Day 6 - How Social Media Gurus are Relevant to You
Day 6 - Assignment: Social Media Blogs to TAG & Books to read/share

Neat… I love learning new things. Just wish I had more time to read it all. Trying to absorb it through osmosis never worked back in college, so I guess it wouldn’t work now… Darn! But Jessica does it again, by providing some great resources to look and link in to!

I’ve already checked out and plan to follow Patrick O’Keefe since my day job involves my participation in a brand new private online community for alumnus of our 2-day Transforming Diabetes Care training program. I plan to pick up his book “Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards” for me as well as to share with my team.

I already review Guy Kawasaki’s blog & follow him on Twitter. He says it like it is, he’s real, and he’s down to earth. Love his style and love Alltop too!

Wow, another book I’m going to have to add to my read list is “Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking” by Andy Sernovitz. Word of mouth comes fairly natural to me, since I love to talk about and recommend what I love… so I’m hoping to learn how to make this work for me.

I still have a lot to learn and since osmosis probably won’t work… I have tagged all of JessicaKnows recommendations on my del.icio.us page so that I have instant access to reviewing & re-reviewing these social media gurus.

15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows - Day 5

Day 5 - How to Do a Blog Giveaway That Gives You More
Day 5 - Assignment: Host a giveaway on my blog

So Cool, Jessica has some great advice for doing a blog giveaway. I’ve never done one, so I’m really excited to give this a try. Jessica has made it as easy as possible, as she goes through each of the steps to get it set up in her blog post. Whether you are participating in 15 Days of Marketing with Jessica Knows or not, this post is a must see if you want to get the inside scoop on doing giveaways on your blog.

I just got a lead on working with a chic company for a cool giveaway, so I am connecting with them to see if we can set something up for this month. I am really excited since this will be my very first giveaway, so if you want to know once it’s up, I encourage you to subscribe to my blog feed. I will also be announcing it on Twitter, so if you want to know the play-by-play, make sure you are also following me @MicroBlogginMom to get in on the action!