I received an email this week from Peter Bowerman, famed WellFed Writer author and my first thought was: his monthly e-newsletter is early! I look forward to his monthly news on the first of the month, but this was only the 30th.
But when I opened the email I discovered that he was introducing his new blog. FINALLY. I met Peter a little over a year ago at a weekend conference for writers and editors in Rochester, NY. It was a small crowd, and he made himself very available to the group for questions, answers and discussions and at one point I asked if he had a blog.
"No, not yet," he replied.
But he does now! So of course I clicked the link in his email to visit and found one post with an amazing number of comments! And comments from well known writers! As of today, he has FIFTY EIGHT comments on his first post.
Peter used his faithful newsletter following to attract an audience to his new venture. Just imagine if half of them write a welcome post on their site - what will that potentially mean to his initial reach? It's like Linked In on steriods.
Anyway, if you are a writer; corporate, freelance, marketing and enjoy finding new resources for your craft - keep your eye on what is happening over at WellFed Writer. Peter's books have been a wonder source of information for my business and I'm sure his blog will develop into the same quality resource.
Check out the WellFed Writer blog.
Question for you. When you first launched your blog - what marketing efforts did you find most effective? How are you still marketing your blog?
Deborah
