How I did it: I'd been blogging since 1999 but hadn't really thought about blogging professionally and making a website or series of websites around my products.

So I thought of a design, looked at FreeCSSTemplates.org, and started playing with ideas.

I had lots of things to say, but at first I wasn't sure how to put it out there. Should I do powerpoint presentations? Scribd? Slideshare? How much content per post? What to write about? What deserved attention, and what didn't?

I decided that I wanted to write about fundraising, about marketing, and about how to get ahead in your career, specifically focused on nonprofits.

And in November of 2009 I launched my blog, and started plugging away at it. I started doing 5 posts a week in February, 2010, and my blog really took off. I got tons of newsletter signups, views, retweets, and comments. And then people started asking me to do speaking engagements all around where I live.

I redesigned my blog with a new wordpress template in July 2010 and that really helped a lot in terms of readability, it had gotten too cluttered.

Hope this helps you!

Mazarine

Lessons & tips: Quit facebook. You will have so much more time to write.
Only use social media like twitter and linkedin for your business.
Having a website is like having a baby. You need to give it attention all of the time. And the more you nurture it, the more it will grow.

Resources: I got a friend to get a wordpress blog set up for me, he can help you too. http://stevehavelka.com.


I have an ebook that explains how I got my traffic, and how you can get
lots of traffic too. It's at http://wildwomanfundraising.com/free-stuff.

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Aug 30, 2010, 11:03AM PDT | 5 comments | 1 cheer