Getting Over Self-Promotion Fears & Marketing: T2B 16

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!