I remember those days when I thought writing a blog post was enough.
I would invest all my efforts on choosing the right topic, writing a quality blog post, making it smart, funny, and engaging, adding interesting pictures, carefully crafting an eye-catching format, and choosing the right time to post.
I would weigh all my options, do all the hard work, hit ‘publish’, and then wait for the traffic to pour in.
It didn’t.
It wasn’t until I had wasted a considerable amount of effort that I realized that effectively promoting a blog post is as important as, if not more so, than writing quality content.
In a blogosphere full of unwanted noise, your goal is to make your voice heard above all the others. Your goal is to attract audiences who might be interested in what you have to say and how you choose to say it. For that, you need to find creative ways to promote a blog post before you even write one.
But how exactly can you do that?
After all, not all of us can invite Drake to help promote our next offering. So, you need to rely on these four creative ways to build buzz for your next blog post before it goes live.
