How Much Promotion Do You Do?

What the proportion of the time you spend writing/blogging versus the time you spend promoting your content/site? And what are some of the activities that you do to promote your blog?

And why do you promote it anyway ( or not promote it, depending on your needs).

I've realised I spend a lot of time promoting sites and my own works. Part of it is that the more readers I attract for client sites, the more people hear their messages, and the more I gain credibility as a web content writer, which leads to more work. And clients also have to justify their expenditures - it's no use having a web site if it's not being read by the target audience.

Anyhoo, talk to me. Tell me why you promote/don't promote your works and how you do it.

Publishing Your Blog As A Book

Have you ever considered publishing your blog as a book? Are you ever going to do it? And what did you think of books that evolved from blogs ( if you've read any). What did you like/dislike about these books?

The reason I ask is because I've just realised this is my 808th post on Storypot. Not a huge number considering that I've been blogging since January 2006. But it's a lot of words and a sharing of life experiences too. The thing is, I'm not quite sure if I was talking out my ear, or if I occassionally managed something useful/profound/life-changing/worth recording for posterity/worth sharing.

For now, I don't have a strong opinion on the issue, but I'd be curious to know what you think of blogs that evolve into books.

Crowds at Spring Fair being entertained.
 (Image courtesy of ILKA)

I'm presenting an Introduction to Blogging workshop at the St Giles Association on the 25th September. The event aims to empower small business owners and NGOs in my community to use social media to promote their businesses or cause. It's also a way to help raise money for St Giles. Basically, I donate s couple of hours, participants attend for free and are therefore empowered, but they are asked to make some kind of donation to St Giles. Eventually, it will also help build my business profile in the community. So we all win.

Spent some time over the weekend playing around with blogger. Found some new design features ( such as design template and the ability to create pages), so I was happy to bring some order to Storypot. I hope you like the way the blog now has menus at the top.

Spring Fair on Sunday in my neck of woods was great. The park was packed with local families and friends ready to have fun.  I ate way too many sweet things ( including cotton candy:-), and got to hang out with Zahn Koen Hughes,  who belongs to my book club and makes the most beautiful scatter cushions.

Testing a different template

What do you think? I wanted something fresh, but not too busy. Something I wouldn't mind looking at everyday.
Woke up with a really bad headache ( and it's a stress headache, I know). Worked anyway, because web sites don't update themselves.

Got a rejection from a national magazine for a proposed story. The good news is that he told me what he's looking for - more news, less featuresque - and gave me his phone number and I suggested I call him next time I have an idea that could work for him. So I'll no longer be querying into the dark beyond the next time I try out that this.
Putting up a number of articles on Ezine Articles for myself and clients. I hope it pays off with increased traffic. Traffic is always excellent for client reports.

Anyho, have a great weekend.