6 Ways to Be Circled and Not Squared
By Mikkel Juhl On April 14, 2010
Under General
I got this idea of this blog post when I was at work last night.. I saw a board that was formed as a square. And then a circled-formed bread basket, but that’s a completely different story. Let’s jump straight to this blog post.
This is a blog post on how to stand out from the crowd. And you will look different from the other bloggers/marketers in your niche. In this case difference is good. So when you stand out from the crowd you are circled, when you follow the stream of marketers/bloggers you are squared.
It’s all about being circled.
1. Start a Blog
If you are in a offline or online business and your business do not have a blog, you should start on now. IMO starting a blog is probably the main marketing you should do online. If you want to be very social (ie. use social media) you have to have a central location to send people to, with all your content.
What blog platform?
2. Develop an Outstanding Brand
Branding is huge. My brand is DaneBlogger, start your own brand. Darren Rowse’s brand is ProBlogger. Almost every successful Internet marketer is having a brand, lots of people doesn’t think that a brand is needed. You can definitely live without a brand. But, a brand is easier to remember than, a name.
People tend to call me Dane, as of DaneBlogger.. It’s like my nickname, just bear in mind that my name is Mikkel Juhl, but if you like, just call me Dane, because that’s like my nickname.
3. Use E-mail Marketing to Stay in Front
Email Marketing ins’t dead, far from, it will give you an edge over the competition if it’s done right. You can see some stuff about email marketing at this blog.
4. Network With Your Customers
Be on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, wherever your customers are located, be there interact, build a strong bound to them. They liked to be interacted with.. Anyway, here’s how to dominate your niche using Twitter. Be social, and whenever there’s coming a new social media up, join and see if it has a future, it may have.
5. Give Value. Receive Second
(This is probably one of the best advises I have for you)
You should really expect nothing in return, and just give them value first, regardless of whether they will buy your products or not.
Maybe start with a free product and then when they’ve read the awesome product you will be able to sell.
6. Get Your Own Theme, or A Premium Theme
This is relatively important. If you buy a premium theme of WordPress, you will be seen as serious. Because you want to pay for your blog. If you get you own design, you will be able to build a brand from that theme. The theme can follow you everywhere.
Hope you enjoyed todays blog post.
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Hello, I'm Mikkel Juhl, young blogger. I started blogging in 2007, let's say that I've been around for a while. I'm 14 years old, I have a passion for 