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Blogger Event: Sign up for $100 Bath & Body Works Giveaway

October 26, 2016 by MyStyleSpot Leave a Comment

Hey bloggers! want to help grow your social media following? Here is a fun new blogger giveaway event opportunity to help you do just that! (Hosted by Lil’ Blog and More)

This will be another great event, that will help us all gather new followers, and get more traffic! So be sure to join in! 

There are a lot of different options available. 
 

Prize for the event: A $100 Bath and Body Works Gift Card.
 


Actual Giveaway Dates:  11/17/2016 – 12/10/2016.


This is a great way to gain a lot more followers on your social media channels! There are completely FREE options, sharing options (for additional entries on the form.) and paid options, available! 


Last day to sign up for this event: November 13th, 2016. 

You can sign up for this event HERE

Filed Under: blogger opp, blogging, blogging tips Tagged With: bath and body works, blogger opp, giveaway

5 Tips for Branding & Building A Successful Blog

July 19, 2016 by MyStyleSpot 2 Comments

Branding… This is something you hear over and over as a blogger, but to be quite frank, I haven’t always been sure exactly what that even meant. I get that by building my blog, I am building my brand, but where does one actually start when it comes to branding?

In the last few months, I’ve gotten so many questions about starting a blog from friends, acquaintances, and even from people I’ve just met who learn I’m a blogger and become fascinated and wonder just how it’s done. Well going into that would take many many posts, but if there is one thing I’ve realized in my 6 years of blogging, it’s that getting your blog out there is one of the most important things you can do!  Duh, if you want to be influential, you need readers! Unfortunately, what my experience has also taught me, is that getting your name out there can be the hardest part of all. I’m still trying to break through the mold and get more exposure to my blog, and really as a blogger, this is something we should all have on our mind constantly and be working towards daily. This is exactly where branding comes into play.

Branding isn’t just important for bloggers who are wanting to get their name out there, it’s vital for any business to succeed. If you google the meaning of the word branding, it means establishing a presence in the consumer (or readers) mind, in order to attract and keep customers.

 

1. Create a Unique, eye-catching Logo and Name

One way to do this is, and the first thing you will obviously want to do when starting a blog, is create a good logo and name for your blog (or brand). When It comes to branding and creating a logo/name, keep it fun, catchy, simple, eye-catching, and unique, and of course -relevant to what you want to talk about and what you want the focus of your blog to be!  These are the keys to creating a successful logo for your brand.

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2. Build Your Social Media and Use it Regularly.

Don’t forget to share all of your blog posts to all of your social media outlets! Social Media is not only fun and HUGE, but it’s absolutely necessary for branding these days. Ask any blogger, they will tell you it is absolutely necessary and one of the biggest things they use to help drive traffic to their blog. Start building your social media now! Get on all of the major social media outlets too such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube if you have videos! Snapchat is becoming the next big social media outlet, and I keep hearing about it over and over! Businesses are wanting to use it more and more to get the word out, and that means they want to work with bloggers who have high influence and a good following here, so start Snapchatting! This is one I admittedly need to be better about using and building for my own brand!

 

3. Add those Handy Social Media Share Buttons to your Blog

When blogging and create awesome content, be sure to share each post on all of your social media. Also, be sure to add those handy little social media share buttons to your blog so that it makes it easy for your readers to share your post to their social media as well!

 

4. Show off your Brand!

Create your business card to keep on hand to give out when needed. Don’t be afraid to go a step further and get creative with your brand. Being a fashion blogger, I love creating a cute Tshirt, tote or accessory that shows off my style, as well as gets people asking about my logo and in turn, hopefully, sparks an interest in seeing what my fashion brand is all about! Whatever your niche, create cool logos and place them on products used in your niche. For instance, if you run a cooking blog, create cute teaspoons, spatulas, etc with your blog name and logo on it! If you’re a sports blogger, get your brand printed out on tennis balls, gym bags, etc. The ideas are endless!

Find events you can attend with people who are interested in the topic of your niche, and start passing out your gear! I plan on keeping some fun Sunglasses with my blog logo on hand at all times,  to give out when I find a good opportunity to help someone remember my blog in style! Because that is what my blog is all about- Style!

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5. Bloggers love other bloggers. Start getting involved in blogging facebook groups, attend blogger conferences, and start sharing your brand.

This is such a great way to get tips, helpful information from other men and women doing the same thing you do (The experts!), and is a great way to start building your brand and getting your name out there. Comment regularly on your favorite blogs (you’re linking back to your own blog by doing this). Share other bloggers’ blog posts to your social media. Share the love and more often than not you will find other bloggers will do the same for you! It’s also an amazing way to find lots and lots of people (and potential readers!) who are already interested in your niche, and this is of course, always a great way to help build your brand.

 

 

Branding can be fun, so play around with it, come up with some good ideas and then get going! Be sure to take your time creating your logo and blog name, make sure it’s something you will LOVE for a very long time and love sharing with others when they ask you about it! Then get building your brand and sharing it!

 

Happy Blogging!

*Thank you http://www.firelabel.co.uk/ for sponsoring this post. All opinions expressed in this post are solely my own. I only share posts with my readers I feel will be beneficial or informative in some way.

 

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Filed Under: blogging, blogging tips Tagged With: blogging, blogging tips, branding, building a brand, business

How to Make Your Blog/Site Shoppable & Earn More Money

June 8, 2016 by MyStyleSpot Leave a Comment

*This post contains affiliate links for which I will be compensated when purchases are made.

If you run a blog, by now you probably know about affiliates, and if you dont.. well you should! It’s a great (and easy) way to earn money for helping your readers connect with products and items they want to buy! You’re already writing about stuff you love and letting your readers in on the big secret, why not help yourself and earn some cash when they purchase your recommendations?

When I first started blogging, I had no idea what affiliates even were let alone how to get started with them and actually start making money. Whether you started your blog one day ago or 10 years ago, if you’re not using affiliate links in your posts yet, the time to start is NOW. You can always go back and add affiliate links to old posts if you’ve been in the blogging business for a while now (I actually do this often with some of my more popular posts as I did not use affiliate links for several years after starting my blog!)

So what exactly is an affiliate link? It’s a personalized link that tracks traffic sent to the shopping site from your blog. Once items are bought through your affiliate link, you get a portion of the payment, depending on how much the brand is offering when you refer business to them. *Tip: Pay special attention to this as each business pays differently and some will pay you a lot more than others!

How do you obtain and use an affiliate link? Affiliate links are easy to grab and enter into your blog. Once you are signed up with a brand’s affiliate program, most brands will post somewhere right there when you login to the affiliate portion of the website, your own personalized affiliate link. Take this link and connect it to your product name you posted in your blog post using the link icon in your wordpress.

Tips for getting started with using Affiliates 

  • Sign up with some of the most popular affiliate sites to get you started. I use Amazon the most and Ebay quite frequently too. Both sites have soooo many products you can virtually always find the product related to your post to help your readers find and shop the same items you are using and writing about.
  • Sign up with big sites that connect lots of different brands and businesses with influencers. I use ShareaSale the most.<—- Notice my use of an affiliate link right there! 😉  Ebay is also great for this, as is LinkShare and VigLink.com. Each have and are constantly adding new businesses that want to pay you some money to send business their way! There are tons of these sites out there, so do your research and find the ones that work best for you and are more targeted towards businesses in your niche.
  • Visit some of your favorite brands or sites and often times they will have information listed on how to become an affiliate for them. Anytime I’m writing a post I do this. Otherwise, it’s a money-making opportunity wasted!
  • Get Affiliate links for any Blog Post You Write – Get sponsored for that blog post? Ask the sponsor about their affiliate program and get signed up before writing the post so you can plug it in when writing it!
  • Don’t forget to include affiliate links in your social media posts. Affiliate links are not just for blogs! Just be sure to add #sp to posts to follow FTC Regulations. Note: All blog posts containing affiliate links should be noted at the beginning of your blog post. (See the first line of this post for my FTC disclosure.)
  • Now Make Your Site Shoppable. Now that you’re using affiliate links more frequently, ever notice what a time suck plugging in affiliate links to your site can be? Use the new Shopify WordPress Plugin to turn your wordpress site into an online store front, turning products listed into easy-to-shop items. All your readers have to do is click the item, they will then see the price and are taken to where they can buy it, AND you get paid! Just like that! This plugin works great for businesses too, it’s not just for bloggers!

shopify-wordpress-ad e commerce to your site

With just a few clicks, you can now make any WordPress page or blog post an e-commerce site using the free Shopify Ecommerce Plugin.

The plugin makes selling products on your WordPress site simple. In just a few clicks, you can create a Buy Button and add e-commerce functionality (your affiliate links) to let visitors securely checkout from any page on your site.

Visit Shopify.com to learn more!

 

Happy Blogging!

Filed Under: blogging, blogging tips, how to, marketing, tips, wordpress, wordpress plugin Tagged With: blogging, blogging tips, ecommerce, how to, marketing, shopify, tips, wordpress, wordpress plugin

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