Of course you need to have at least some traffic to pull in advertisers – but once you do, if the advertisers are not coming to you yet – go to them.

PS: this actually works. When I started my first camera blog I couldn’t attract big advertisers like Canon and Nikon – so even in the early days when I just had a few hundred readers a day I began to contact local and online small businesses with a photography focus. I was amazed at how many of them were willing to buy advertising. The money wasn’t massive but land a few of them and it adds up.

The beauty of this is that as your traffic grows you’re able to charge more to these advertisers (give them traffic and many of them will stick with you). It also shows other advertisers that you’re attracting advertisers (which can stimulate new advertising).

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Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

How to Find Advertisers for Your Blog

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

How Blogging Changes Lives

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In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design.

While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to date and fresh web presence – one of the negatives is that you can actually stop the momentum that you might have already created with your previous branding.

This is a lesson that applies when thinking about blog design but also even the simple avatars you choose for your Twitter and other social media profiles.

I’m interested to hear your experiences of both how changing your online ‘branding’ has led to confusion but also how you would suggest bloggers do it in a way that builds upon previous branding.

This post was brought to you by Business Week Exchange.

PS: sorry for the audio quality on this video. I recorded it in a public space and there was a little too much background noise.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

Present a Consistent Brand in Your Blogging

The interviews are:

• Corey Doctorow (from BoingBoing) – How to be an uber Blogger
• Robert Scoble – 5 Tips for Better Video Blogging
• Erick Schonfeld (from TechCrunch) – Hot to TechCrunch

The experience that those three bloggers have together is pretty amazing – hope you get something out of the videos.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

3 Video Tips from A-List Bloggers