Here are some blog post suggestions to help you successfully build your blog and your personal brand.
For simplicity, I’m assuming that your personal brand is related to your profession.
1. Tell an unusual personal story that exposes not-so-obvious insight about your work
2. Make a short slideshow video about a trendy topic
3. Critique a new tool that other people in your industry should know about
4. Post a gallery of photos from an industry event (with photographers’ permission, of course)
5. Use Flickr’s Creative Commons search to make a gallery of impressive work-related images
Continue reading >> 33 Blog Post Ideas for the Personal Brand-Building Blogger
--Jacob Share
How to leave blog comments like a pro and build your personal brand all at once.
Respect the blogger
My rule of thumb is to consider blog commenters as potential guests in my home. As a commenter, the blogger is inviting you in by giving you the chance to continue a conversation they started, so don’t barge in with the sole purpose of selling yourself. Instead, add value and make the blogger (and other readers) wish you’d come around more often.
Now let’s take a look at the standard blog comment form fields, using the ones here below as an example.
Use, Not Abuse, The Comment Form Fields
Another rule of thumb is to fill in the form fields in the most obvious way possible. If the blogger wanted your job title or your branding statement, there would be form fields for them.
Continue reading >> The Pro Guide to Sparkling Blog Comments
--Jacob Share
Every blogger – including me – will appreciate you more if you leave these kinds of comments.
And I don’t just mean during comment contests.
1. Respond
As a blogger, I know first-hand how frustrating it can be to have an audience that doesn’t respond when you ask them a specific question (no, not you… I’m referring to my other readers… right…). Leverage this frustration by being the first or among the first to react in the comments.
2. Give honest feedback
Except in very specific situations, leaving a ‘loved this’ or ‘thanks for this’ comment is the blogging equivalent of poking someone on Facebook; the 2 seconds you took to do it is the same 2 seconds of thought the blogger will give to it before forgetting it.
Instead, tell the blogger what you liked about their article or better yet, how it could be improved if the blogger decided to do a followup.
Continue reading >> 7 Best Kinds of Blog Comments That Demand Attention
--Jacob Share
Get your foot in the door with a volunteering position.
This is a guest post by Hannah Katsman. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
Volunteering in a non-profit organization is a great way to build up skills, make contacts for your job search, and keep up your morale. But merely offering your services is not enough. And you never know, your volunteer job might even become a paid position.
Become a great volunteer
1) Choose the right organization. Supporting an organization’s goals is critical, but not everything. Find out how the organization trains and supports volunteers, and what it expects from its workers. Volunteers may need to attend regular meetings, cover their own expenses, or donate money…
Continue reading >> 10 Best Practices to Volunteer Your Way To a Paid Job
--Jacob Share
One woman’s story of how she became a professional blogger.
This a guest post by Kelly Wilson. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
I recently read an article that detailed how to make $30,000 annually by writing and maintaining a blog. Much of the article included abbreviations – like CPC and EPC, among others – that I still don’t understand after two years of blogging on my own website.
I’m not sure I want to understand what they mean. I got into blogging to write and market my work, not to be a corporate advertising portal. However, I do need to feed my family, and my chosen way to accomplish this necessary goal is to write in order to receive a paycheck. It turns out that you really can make money blogging.
So how do you do it?
Continue reading >> How I Found My Blogging Job
--Jacob Share
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