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You’ve got a week left (which is just enough time, but not too much time) to enter the FamousBloggers ComLuv contest and not only have a pretty good chance at winning some great prizes (from $750 to $100 – TWENTY prizes in all), but to do something really good for your blog.
I get questions all the time about how to engage readers and how to get comments and how to get traffic. Please listen to this carefully: you cannot blog successfully in a vacuum.
So you may not win. Heck, I don’t even think I will win! 
That’s okay. BizChickBlogs is 6 months old; I don’t expect phenomenal things right now. This isn’t about winning. It’s about connecting. It’s also about vetting your systems and seeing what works. It’s about growing, stretching, seeing who your real “blogging friends” are (I’ve learned A LOT about that now), learning how to guest post successfully, etc. These are important lessons to learn in order to take your blog to the next level, no matter which level you’re on right now.
The entries are fabulous, but they are not out of reach or soooo good that you could not meet or exceed them. You can write something about your experience with commenting, or lack of, and pull off a great victory here. You really can.
I’ve listened to your stories about how you stopped commenting and visitors dropped – that’s a GREAT storyline for a post. Or about how you found a great guest blogger through commenting – another good one. You can talk about why you don’t like commenting, if you don’t. You can talk about how your niche blog (mom blog, food blog, heck, shoe blog!) has exploded because of the commenting you are doing and are receiving: niche blogs are not prolific in the competition right now; would love to see more.
If you enter, you will have my full support!
I don’t have all that much pull, but I will promote your post as much as I have been promoting my own and others that I’ve liked in the competition. BizChickBlogs is a SUPPORT blog for YOU. So that’s my commitment. And if you HAVE already entered and I haven’t commented, or promoted it, it’s because I didn’t know about it. Do me and yourself a favor: leave the link here, or shoot me a tweet about it @bizchickblogs, or leave it on the BizChickBlogs Facebook wall (but be sure to tell me in another way, as I’m Facebook challenged for some reason with my page).
If you think you don’t have time…
Try this: if you’re feeling like, gee I really don’t have time for this, skip blogging on your own blog this week or next week (gasp!). Instead, send in your entry to the contest, and reap the rewards of having many new visitors come check out your blog and see what you are all about. You’ll be promoting yourself on highly visited, highly regarded blogs (ComLuv.com or FamousBloggers.net) and the organizers @GrowMap @CommentLuv and @FamousBloggers retweet contest entries all the time, so your entry will be well seen. And of course I will promote it, too.
Tips on How to Make it Awesome
- Write a killer headline. One better than mine, lol. Looks like sweet headlines are key.
- Bring value. Tell a story, and then offer suggestions.
- If you’re humorous at all, be funny. Just be yourself, even if you’re not funny (I’m not funny).
- Don’t worry about linking to other people’s entries as they will do that for you.
- Write a great bio.
- If you are a niche blogger, use it in your title. If you are a food blogger, for example, write about how commenting can really grow food blogs. Doing so will get you some visibility to other food blogs (and may even get you on @Sweetsfoods weekly list if your post is stellar, which will REALLY increase visits to your entry and your blog – fingers crossed).
Good luck.
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