You’re new to Blogging, are you?
First, you have to figure out how all this new technology works, and at the same time, come up with something to say?
And how does Facebook work for a Tourism business?
And what is Twitter?
And now you are told you need an RSS Feed??
But Wait! It’s NOT Rocket Science.
Imagine this example: The Internal Cumbustion Engine. Each of us can bring up pictures of the pistons working within your car’s engine… and how the piston rods turn a shaft to create drive that goes through the transmission and to the tires that push against the road to move the car.
The automobile is a complicated machine – but we all have a general mental picture of that entire chain of events. In fact, this knowledge is required, and much more, *before* a licensed driver gets behind the wheel.
Simple As Driving A Car
Building a car is a big job that requires expensive, custom machines and a large network of suppliers and partners. Learning to drive a car requires basic road knowledge, car handling, professional Drivers Training – and some time practicing.
But now, we simply grab the keys, jump in the car and navigate traffic without giving it much thought… because the car has been built, and the complexities of driving have become so familiar, they are routine.
If you are new to Blogging, be easy on yourself.
Soon, all this Blogging and Social Media jargon will be second nature, and as simple as driving a car.
Blog And Website In One
Self-hosted WordPress lets you keep your website and blog together in one website, it’s easy to upgrade, and is flexible enough to be a ‘Smart Car’, or ‘The Car Of Your Dreams’!
So Much To Learn
During a recent series of Blog Coaching Sessions with a fishing lodge owner, we spent an hour setting up a Facebook Fan Page, an hour setting up a new Twitter Account, an hour setting up a new YouTube account and two hours consulting and setting up a blog at WordPress.com.
After this whirlwind tour, my client emailed
“I’m more confused now than I was before!”
I remember feeling this way the first time I drove in busy city traffic. To make matters worse, I was in a large truck I had never driven before – and taking street directions from two backseat drivers. There was so much information to take in all at once, that I felt exausted by the time we got to our destination.
I learned a lot about city driving that day, but it took many more sessions before I began to be comfortable. And blogging may feel that way in the beginning too – just remember how easy this will be in the future!
Show Me, Don’t Tell Me
ONE: We all learn easier by watching, and then copying.
TWO: It’s easier to watch a video, than to read the same information.
All of my 1 hour Blog Coaching Sessions are followed up by a short 5 minute review video that re-caps the points we covered in that session. Because each Coaching Session is individually taught at each clients’ present level, and my clients vary widely in their web experience, the follow-up videos have covered almost then entire spectrum of blogging course subjects:
How to set up a Social Media Campaign,
and much more.
In a short period, the Blog Coaching video tutorials have started to make a nice collection.
However, each Coaching video has been created within the clients website, and is a personal communication from me to them – and so I can’t share all these great tutorials!
My Canadian Fishing Blogs
Introducing: Places to create new videos!!
http://blog.northernpikebook.com and http://blog.walleyebook.com
These two blogs, and a few others, are being overhauled. They are being utalized as the stage where I am shooting new training videos and reproducing the highlights from the best Blog Coaching Sessions!
But more than that - I’m also setting up the very same blogging strategies that I recommend for my Tourism Clients who own Drive to and Fly in Fishing Lodges.
I’m putting my Blog where my Mouth is – While these blogs are not trying to get people to book a fishing trip at my Lodge, these blogs ARE following the same marketing strategies that I recommend to you.
Blog Marketing Strategies for Tourism business that anyone can apply – recorded in brief, Five Minute Video Tutorials!
Watch for Membership Details coming soon!
Cheers!
