How Do Small Blogs Make It Big? – The Story of Search for Blogging
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How do you grow your small blog? The Marketer Review presents: Search for Blogging- a case study.
What do you want out of your blog? A solid readership, a recursive income. Mert Erkal, from Turkey, has managed to do this. All he had to do was play by the rules that the market has established in the last decade. Search for Blogging is not yet big, but it’s growing rapidly and already has over 1000 readers per day.
How did Erkal do it?
- He built a blog that would be of use to someone- a blog about small business blogging.
- He didn’t rehash what other Pro bloggers were talking about. He wrote about his own experience with link building and and business plans.
- He collaborated with someone else. Erkal teamed up with Peoplized.com (a social media based on interviews), and he’s planning to released the first issue of Blogholigy (which I’m taking a part in). An E-book containing a collection of small, yet quality bloggers and their best work.
There are Many Good Small Blogs
That’s right. There are tens of thousands of small blogs, to date, and they are absolutely fabulous. I love small blogs because they give a very personal picture of the writer. I’ve also become a private better, I like to suspect, who’ll become the next big thing. Erkal is not big yet, but he’s surly on his way. Providing good, solid tips, that of a businessman who’s had experience online and off.
Colabarating Will Get You Everywhere
What Erkal did, the most wisely, is team up with something bigger than him. Then this group pulled together a small community around them – A community of small bloggers.
What did this do for Erkal? First of all, it got us, the small bloggers to his blog. We are, in effect, his target audience. We are the small bloggers, who want to grow even bigger. And now, look what’s happening, we’re all writing about him! (1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
Erkal has also made some great connections. Much more quality than he would have, just socializing in one of the social networks. These connections could all be leveraged, business-wise, later on.
Having a Good Mentor and a Teachable Attitude
Erkal tells about his short blogging career and mentions his turning point with Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind. I’m a student of Blog Mastermind, myself (read the full Blog Profits Blueprint review), but no first grade mentor can help you if you don’t come on board with a teachable attitude. If you’re not willing to be taught, if you’re not willing to try new things, because you think you know better, you do not have a teachable attitude. If Erkal can, now, name Starak as a mentor, it is due to his own teachable attitude.
Mert Erkal is on his way to starting something big. His giving attitude is something, all of us, internet marketers can learn from.
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tali, this is certainly a very good set of tips for small bloggers like myself. great post, my friend!
Comment by jessie — January 3, 2008 #
Tali, i am speechless now. Thank you so much for your kind words. Without smart blogger friends like you, i have no chance at all. We will fly together in 2008, i believe this by heart. Meanwhile i wish you and your readers a happy new year!
Cheers,
Mert
Comment by Mert — January 3, 2008 #
Thanks for this post! It gives hope to the small guys!
Comment by Sue — January 3, 2008 #
Nice tips for small bloggers Tali. Thanks!
Comment by Manish Pandey — January 6, 2008 #
Tali, I started reading your book, didn’t finish yet, but it looks great from the start, it is very rare to find something free on the internet with nothing in return, and you also allow to copy it, wow, you are an inspiration
WTG!
I wish you all the luck in the world, you deserve it!
Thank you very much
Tanny
Comment by Tanny — January 6, 2008 #
Thanks Tanny!
it’s great to see you out of the Mixx. And now I really got an answer about your take on internet marketing
Comment by talishapiro — January 6, 2008 #
Best Tips for me,too.
Comment by rnopporn — January 10, 2008 #
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Thanks Tali for sharing this. I am truly inspired to have my blog be reached by others, in hopes that I can be of some help and make a contribution.
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Comment by jonathanmead — March 11, 2008 #
Hey Jonathan,
I never expected this article to inspire, which goes to show you never know. Your blog looks great, keep at it and you’ll grow
Good luck
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