UpYourSocial

With UpYourSocial just launching, I thought it would be great to interview someone that has had an amazingly successful blog launch in the past. The person I’m talking about is Marko Saric. He is the owner of HowToMakeMyBlog and crafted a really fantastic launching strategy for his blog by leveraging guest posting and social media.

I sent him over five simple questions that will shed a little more light on his strategy and may give you some ideas on how to launch your own blog.  I know it did for me.

1. Can you provide us with a little background about how you got starting in blogging, marketing and social media?

First website I started was about my favorite music band. I loved the band, listened to it daily, and spent a lot of time and money buying their music, reading about them, going to their concerts and interacting with other fans.

This was a topic I loved, knew much about and had passion for. And one way or another I tried the new Internet thingy and started a website about the band. This was in late 1990’s.

That turned me onto marketing and I went to study marketing first in high-school and then marketing management at university in 2002 or so.  I specialized in e-marketing at university, which turned me onto blogs  and social media. Then I transfered my music site onto WordPress in  2006 and that gave me insight into how blogs are run and that is how I  got the passion to make a “how to blog” blog some 2 years after.

2. You recently launched HowToMakeMyBlog and have quickly seen traffic and monetization results.  How did you use social media to successfully launch your blog?

At the start it was Stumbleupon only. I spent a lot time there, submitting sites I liked, looking for other bloggers etc. StumbleUpon sent me a very large share of my traffic in the early days. It is the easiest place to start getting traffic for a new blog. I have written a post about the way I use StumbleUpon, 10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon.

3. How does social media work in your day to day growth strategy for your blog?

Now it is mostly Twitter. I send tweets about each of my new articles and if my article provides value to people they will share it, tweet it, stumble it etc. I have made it easy to do by including Tweet This and Stumble This button in all my articles. Investing time in your Twitter account is very much recommended as it has huge potential for viral marketing.

4. If you could change one thing about your launch, what would it be?

I didn’t realize the potential of Twitter for marketing a blog until about month and a half into my blog. When I joined Twitter that is when it really started. So I would wish I knew about Twitter before as if I started a blog today Twitter would be my most important platform to spread the word about a launch of a new blog.

5. We’ve mostly discussed social media as a business tool, what are your favorite social sites that you use for fun and why?

As I work full time and as I try to keep a very consistent schedule on new posts regularly, I try to take my fun time offline and relax away from the screen. So I do not have any social media sites I just use for fun.

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