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With thousands of blogs emerging on the web each day, marketing your blog has become a necessity. Gone are the days when you could update your blog frequently and get noticed, simply cause you write often. In today’s ever growing web, there are certain marketing practices that we need to embrace in order to gain visibility and exposure to what we have to say.

In this post I will share three basic blog marketing tips that seems to be ignored by most bloggers,
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We all differ from each other in one way or the other and so does our opinion and views on certain things. Blogging is seen by some as a money making machine and by some as the perfect tool to network and open new opportunities, I fall under the second category. As bloggers we all write for readers, we try to write what we think the readers might enjoy or value. We try to provide information in the form of entertainment or knowledge so as to cater to our reader’s needs. But sometimes it becomes essential to share how we see things from our own eyes.

While I was at my day job, I was constantly asking myself as to what blogging is and how we can climb the ladder of success. I came with a few answer and these answers reflects me as a blogger. Some might agree and some might not but again this post is about Blogging and Networking - The Way I See It .

Here are a few questions I asked myself and as you can imagine answered it as well. Just thought I would share it with you and get your opinion and what you think of them. Are we alike or just as I said in the beginning, does our views differ when it comes to blogging and networking? [Read more →]

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This is probably one of the shortest post here on Work N Play. I just wanted to write one paragraph on how to effectively network as a blogger and what networking is.

In my opinion,

Before you start writing an email asking for something, you need to realize the person receiving it might not want to be at the giving end. You have as much to offer as the person you are emailing, you just need to dig in deep and see your own capabilities. The essence of networking lies in giving first and receiving second. So before you go asking, allow your resources to kick in so you can offer something first. Chances are you will receive something back without having to ask. The process of give and take without expectation, that’s networking!

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Although most of us jump into the blogging world with the hopes of making money, I personally find the true essence of it lies within networking. Honestly, my main objective when I started this blog was to make money as well. In the month of November I made about 300 U.S. dollars and since then it’s been a dead cash crop. But I have learned much more about blogging and what else I can achieve besides monetary benefits from this wonderful medium.

Since my perspective has changed I don’t look at blogging simply as a means to generate income. Ofcourse, a little supplmental income is nice but what about in the long run? In the long run I want people I know, people that are influential within a certain community, people I can learn from. This is what it all comes down to now when it comes to blogging and all this is possible through - Networking!

I have been able to build pretty good relations with some very influential bloggers and wonderful people. I just thought I would share some of my ways of networking and opening the comments section for you guys to share some with me, [Read more →]

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