Blogging 101: Branding

  • Blogging 101: Creating Your Personalised Mission and Vision Statements

    Blogging 101: Creating Your Personalised Mission and Vision Statements

    A key thing to do is to think about your blog the same way you would think about a business. In business plans, you often find both a Vision and Mission Statement which are there to help guide you as you grow and develop. These statements are their as a guding principle for what you’re…

  • Blogging 101: Personal Branding

    Blogging 101: Personal Branding

    This week we’re moving away from the blog a little bit and talking more about you. Your personal brand is a big part of most blogs and blog credibility is often linked to author trust. So, you need to work on building your own credibility and authority in the area you blog about too.

  • Blogging 101: How To Copyright Your Content and Reduce Plagiarism

    Blogging 101: How To Copyright Your Content and Reduce Plagiarism

    With plagiarism running rampant online, how can you help protect your content and brand from it? Here’s some tips on how to copyright your content.

  • Blogging 101: Gaining Blog Credibility

    Blogging 101: Gaining Blog Credibility

    Today we’re talking about blog credibility! Blog credibility is important as it’s how people percieve your blog, and if it’s not good then you may get less people returning to your site.

  • Blogging 101: Brand Reputation

    Blogging 101: Brand Reputation

    For today’s Blogging 101 I wanted to talk about something called Brand Reputation. So let’s chat about how you can build, protect and improve your own blog brand reputation.

  • Blogging 101: Finding your Tone of Voice

    Blogging 101: Finding your Tone of Voice

    One thing that can really differentiate a blogger is their Tone of Voice on their blog but also across social media. Many brands use Tone of Voice documents to ensure they have a unified voice across all platforms, and blogging is similar. In the same way that your imagery and logos “match” across all platforms,…

  • Blogging 101: Creating a Brand Story

    Humans respond well to a crafted narrative, and an emotional story often helps people connect with one another by capturing their attention. This is why having a ‘Blog Brand Story’ in your about me page can be vital for connecting to readers but also brands and sponsors who want to work with you.  What is…

  • Blogging 101: Protect your Brand

    Blogging 101: Protect your Brand

    I’ve previously talked about how important Branding is to blogs and it’s come up in a lot of different Blogging 101 posts before. However, what I haven’t really talked about is what to do after you’ve done all the hard work of planning and creating your brand. There’s some level of brand protection that is…

  • Blogging 101: Write Your About Me Page

    Now you’ve got your homepage sorted and branding is all up to scratch. Let’s make sure your about me page is informative, yet fun and helps whoever wants to know you better to get something from it. It also needs to be set up well for any potential opportunities from brands. One Liner Creating a…