Last Updated on August 26, 2017
This week’s Bloggab will focus on finding your audience.
Our special guest is Cendrine Marrouat.
Cendrine Marrouat is a social media coach, blogger, and curator, and one of Paper.li’s blog staff writers. Originally from France, she is the founder of Social Media Slant, a website that focuses on social media tips, tools, news, and stats for small businesses and solo-preneurs. She also hosts #smslantchat, a monthly Twitter discussion on the benefits and challenges of having a brand in this social media world. She has also released two social media books: The Little Big eBook on Blogging: 40 Traffic Generation Tips and The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win.
In this week’s edition of Bloggab, she will help personal bloggers focus efforts on finding your audience with some of the same tricks business bloggers use.
We’ll talk about whether bloggers are better served in setting out to target an audience before they begin blogging, or blogging then watching to see who is and isn’t joining the audience, or a combination of the two.
We’ll also talk about how to figure out where to be to find and build that audience in terms of social media platforms. How many is too many? How many is not enough? And how do you decide where you should and shouldn’t go as you seek more readers.
For the first half of the hour, I’ll ask Cendrine some questions. Then I’ll open it up to everyone, so bring your questions to Monday night’s Bloggab and let’s talk about how to build your blog’s audience!
If you’ve never been part of a Twitter chat, it’s simple: it requires a Twitter account, which should be obvious. You can then use sites like Nurph, Twubs, Tweetchat or Tweetdeck; they’ll ask you to log in to your Twitter account, then allow them to authorize their service to post for you. You’ll then enter the name of the chat, in this case, “Bloggab”, and the services will filter in all tweets that contain that hashtag. And you can type your message and the services will automatically add the hashtag for you, so there’s one less thing for you to worry about!
embeddedfaith The transcript will be available tomorrow around noon (CT) at the following link: http://socialmediaslant.com/bloggab-chat-finding-audience-cendrine-marrouat/
embeddedfaith I’m not sure if everyone would agree with that. But i’ll take the compliment. lol
Reply to cendrinemedia you are the best!
patricksplace cendrinemedia Still trying to stay awake #bloggab
iSocialFanz patricksplace ah ah! Hopefully, we’ll see you tonight. 🙂
patricksplace cendrinemedia for some reason I had #Bloggab on the wrong night on my gCal fixing now! http://Www.isocialfanz.com/twitterchats
patricksplace thanks for the reminder!
embeddedfaith I know people have to sleep and are busy. So, it’s the least I can do. 🙂
cendrinemedia That would be fantastic!!!
embeddedfaith If I have time, I will probably use Storify to create a transcript of the chat and embed it on my blog. 😉
cendrinemedia patricksplace I may try to stop in, but so far the wi-fi has been kicking me off…If it does I won’t stick it out.
embeddedfaith See you next week!
patricksplace blakec432 TheBeautyIsle cendrinemedia out of town at work converence….beautiful place terrible wi-fi. see ya next week!
thelazyw patricksplace OKWomenBloggers Great! I look forward to tweeting you. 🙂
patricksplace I definitely need a roadmap! Chat later
patricksplace Thanks! I’ll be there. Also, this morning I almost sent you a note saying I remember tonight is #bloggab LOL.
Vidocq_CC cartooninperson Yes, sure. lol
cendrinemedia cartooninperson But I am Alice! I really am Alice.
Vidocq_CC cartooninperson That depends on what the White Rabbit says…
cartooninperson cendrinemedia If you don’t know who you are, am I still me?
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC ;0
cartooninperson Vidocq_CC Don’t steal my lines. They are copyrighted. LOL
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC Hahaha I don’t know who I am anymore.
cartooninperson Vidocq_CC Who are you? LOL
Vidocq_CC It’s true. Right, cendrinemedia? We seem to be a bad influence for each other. Ha!
cartooninperson cendrinemedia Thinking? And spoil the fun? You lot are weird!
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC Haha I clearly should have thought this through!
Vidocq_CC cartooninperson Not sure if harass is the right word here, but I agree with the sentiment. lol
cartooninperson Vidocq_CC Well, you ar the one who started it. Now deal with the mess. LOL
cartooninperson cendrinemedia Minor detail, those time zones. We should be able to harass each other across borders!
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC Pfft I’m an alarm clock, not a maid. Yeesh! 😉
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC I may forget we’re in different time zones.
Vidocq_CC cartooninperson Ah ah ah. You have great tastes. 😉
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC Watch out!
cartooninperson Vidocq_CC Be my guest, then. LOL
cendrinemedia cartooninperson Add matches to keep my eyes open, maybe send me an Irish Coffee?
cendrinemedia Vidocq_CC Haha thanks. I’d prefer to do the ringing myself. 😉
cartooninperson Vidocq_CC I can ring you, if that’s the problem. LOL
Vidocq_CC patricksplace audaciouslady cendrinemedia Wouldn’t it be cool if we could Tweet alarms at people. WAKE UP, ALICE!!!!!
Vidocq_CC patricksplace That’s the thought that counts. 🙂
patricksplace I will do my best to stay awake! No promises cartooninperson audaciouslady cendrinemedia #bloggab
patricksplace I don’t mind. I’m very excited. 🙂
cendrinemedia Thanks for accepting. (And you’ll be seeing a few more of these for the next half hour.) 🙂
patricksplace Vidocq_CC audaciouslady cendrinemedia Woo Awesome! See you folks tonight at #Bloggab. 🙂
patricksplace pettigrew66 neil_fahey excited to be a guest tonight! Thank you for inviting me!