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I have a cooking blog, The Good Plate. I post a new recipe every Friday at noon. It's a self-hosted WordPress site.
I do very well in November for my Turkey in a Nesco recipe. Most of this is because of judicious SEO practices on my part. But, I boost it with social media, too.
I have a...
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I have a cooking blog, The Good Plate. I post a new recipe every Friday at noon. It's a self-hosted WordPress site.
I do very well in November for my Turkey in a Nesco recipe. Most of this is because of judicious SEO practices on my part. But, I boost it with social media, too.
I have a monthly newsletter through MailChimp that goes out the last day of the month. It also posts to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
My Jetpack plugin also posts to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram every time I publish a recipe. All have links to the post/recipe except Instagram that has the URL but no link. Because of this, I really can't see referrals coming from Instagram the way I can from Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.
I have found that joining groups on Facebook is wonderful. You actually have to participate, though, and not just post links to your blog. A link has to be relevant otherwise your post is deleted and with enough deletions, you will be removed and banned from a group.
Reddit is a newcomer for me, but since I am used to and "grew up" with Usenet, a threaded discussion is a no-brainer for me. There are rules though. For example, a recipe subreddit says that recipes must be formatted in a certain way or the post will be deleted. I like Reddit and I'm beginning to see some traffic coming from it.
Another one that I like and has been giving me good traffic is Quora. Quora really has some great stuff. Answers to questions are upvoted by viewers and those answers remain forever, unlike a threaded discussion. I answered something about pineapple upside-down cake a while ago, and I get a lot of referrals from it. But, you have to be careful and not spam your links. The links have to be relevant or the answer will be deleted. With enough deletions, you can also be banned from Quora as well.
My experience with social media may not be the same for everyone. I'm kind of a niche. I like discussion and I like answering questions to which I have answers.
Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays, and you are all welcome to visit https://the-good-plate.com any time you want.
I'm a web developer, and one of the first things I learned was to contact churches and non-profits about work. Churches often have tours and retreats that their members go on. You could find out what they currently do, and develop a package that might be better for them. It's social networking,...
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I'm a web developer, and one of the first things I learned was to contact churches and non-profits about work. Churches often have tours and retreats that their members go on. You could find out what they currently do, and develop a package that might be better for them. It's social networking, but it is networking, especially if the church or organization decided to do business with you, their members will, too, based on their recommendation. Good luck and wishing you the best!
This is a story the outgoing minister of our church told us when he was moving to another parish. I'll never forget it.
He talked about a priest in a small parish that was pretty run down, with a dwindling amount of parishioners. He was afraid that the church would be closed if he didn't get...
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This is a story the outgoing minister of our church told us when he was moving to another parish. I'll never forget it.
He talked about a priest in a small parish that was pretty run down, with a dwindling amount of parishioners. He was afraid that the church would be closed if he didn't get better attendance. So, he prayed and prayed and prayed for a sign to tell him what to do. Nothing happened. Then, one day, he heard a small voice in his head say "Let me drive". He didn't really make much of it, and continued to praying as always. Every day, as the situation got worse, the voice in his head got louder and more insistent. Finally, he said to the voice "Leave me alone!" and the voice said "You asked me to give you a sign of what to do. I am. Just let me drive." He finally understood who it was that was talking to him in his head, and he said "Yes, Father, I will let you drive." Soon, things started getting better for his parish. More people started coming to church, donations got larger, there were more volunteers, a larger choir. As a result of all this, there was not only enough money to fix the church, there was enough to expand it to accommodate all the new parishioners. So, just let Him drive.
You have to appeal to what people want, in other words, make it so people want to volunteer because it is something personally important to them. For example, when I saw the tents on every street in downtown Los Angeles, I knew it was time to become involved in groups and organizations involved...
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You have to appeal to what people want, in other words, make it so people want to volunteer because it is something personally important to them. For example, when I saw the tents on every street in downtown Los Angeles, I knew it was time to become involved in groups and organizations involved with homelessness. I think a lot of people don't want to volunteer because they see no real benefit to themselves, they're not getting paid, spending their own time, what's in it for them? If you are appealing to young people, sometimes they can get community service credit for volunteering, or they might want to be interns and get credit for that, put something on their resume, etc. If you are appealing to older folks, it's something to do with their time to keep them busy and unglued from the television set. For others, again, something that appeals to them personally, a cause they feel is important.