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Over the last few weeks I have been asked many times about creating an audience for your blog, especially when you are just starting out. This is a vital topic and one that is covered extensively in the book Born to Blog, but here are a few ideas that helped me in the early stages.What is your approach?First let me say a word about how your goals as a blogger may relate to your approach to building an audience.Some bloggers may be seeking raw “traffic” for their blog. This does not necessarily b

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Simple but essential ways of thinking about building your audience through blogging. Thanks, Danielle Villegas (akaTechCommGeekMom)!

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A guide covering some of the blog-publishing platform’s newer features, including the homepage editor, tagging, unlisted publishing and adding to ‘Publications’

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Medium is becoming an important site for writers seeking a broader audience. This guide by Abigail Edge of Journalism.co.uk to posting to Medium will help you get started.

Note that you can embed your Medium stories on your own site. See ‘Sharing your story’ near the end of this piece.

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Beyond that, though, here’s something else that might be interesting to others pondering building a writing career: big chunks of my income are completely divorced from when I do the work. In 2014, I spent most of my time working on projects that generated absolutely none of my 2014 income. – See more at: http://lauravanderkam.com/2015/03/writing-life-playing-long-game/#sthash.M4vAgMEb.dpuf
Beyond that, though, here’s something else that might be interesting to others pondering building a writing career: big chunks of my income are completely divorced from when I do the work. In 2014, I spent most of my time working on projects that generated absolutely none of my 2014 income. – See more at: http://lauravanderkam.com/2015/03/writing-life-playing-long-game/#sthash.M4vAgMEb.dpuf

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Discovered by way of Chris Gillebeau and  “The Art of Non-Conformity.” This post by Laura Vanderkam  is partly about the weirdness of generating (and receiving) freelance income, but overall keeps a hopeful and confident tone. As I often say, “It will work out.” Sometimes I even believe it!

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