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My Cross Blog Conversation with Benecia Ponder – (Round 3)

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Have you been following my cross blog conversation with Benecia Ponder?  It has been a fun experience.  One I hope to repeat in the future with other bloggers.

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When we first started this challenge, Benecia and I agreed to do three rounds of questions and answers.  Benecia kicked off our challenge and I will close it. This is the final segment.

Yesterday, Benecia offered my readers a free gift:  From Stuck to Unstoppable.  It’s five days of personal transformation that will help you to identify and begin to sweep away the obstacles standing between you and your biggest goals and dreams.  Access is absolutely free at http:://UnstoppableYouRevolutiion.com

And, if this is your first time joining our conversation, you’ll definitely want ot catch up on our previous posts.

Now……the final segment of our conversation.

Our Conversation

Benecia,

It is the end the week already!  WOW this has been fun.  The week went fast and I have learned a lot about you and your amazing business.

I really appreciate the free course you offered my peeps.  I hope some of them take advantage of the offer.

Now for my answers to your questions:

Benecia Asked:  What do you most want to accomplish with your business?

My Answer:  I want to help other people be successful online.  I also want to have a business to retire  to when I leave my current job.

Benecia Asked:  I have many readers who are entrepreneur and business owners. What services or products can you offer them to help boost their social media effectiveness?

My Answer: I offer Social Media Management and content writing as well as Curation and Blog writing.  On my website you can sign up for FREE Social Media Tips to help them improve their visibility and engagement.  In a few days I will also be offering a 15 day FREE  program of social media coaching by email.  If they sign up now for the FREE Tips, they will be notified about the coaching program when it goes live.

Benecia Asked:  This has been a busy month for both of us in the Stretch Yourself Challenge. How do you plan to maintain your momentum going forward?

My Answer:  Well during the next two weeks I am having a blog makeover and I am finishing up my free 15 day Social Media coaching program.  I am also going to the Exposure and Profit Conference in Toronto. Then I signed up to do some coaching with Kelly McCausey in May so I think I will keep the momentum going with  no problem, at least till June  🙂

This has been a fun experience and I want to thank you for participating in this challenge with me Benecia.

I hope you, the reader,  have enjoyed listening in on our conversation back and forth.  Thanks for joining us.

Robin Sig

Boost Your Blog Activity With Content Curation

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Do you crave a more active blog but lack time and a fat outsourcing budget?  We all want to be a success.   We spend a considerable amount of time on our web page and blog, but coming up with good, fresh content is sometimes difficult.  I know many have tried outsourcing content creation and run into challenges with being able to afford a quality writer. Do you hire a writer who costs a bit less but can generate more content for the price – or do you pay a higher per article price for better written content?

Of course quality information is important to you, but you’re also looking for consistent activity on your blog. The more you publish, the more you can promote yourself.  But then again, how much will it cost to hire someone to do this?

Content Curation

A good content curation strategy could be just the solution you’re looking for.

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You’re not the only person in your niche creating high quality content and there’s a lot of relevant information being shared on sites outside of your niche that your people would find interesting if they only knew about it.

Adopt the role of content curator and put yourself in the position of collecting and sharing the best knowledge, news, tools and people and you’ll have all the activity you’re looking for on your site and in social media.

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Sounds great, but won’t that take a lot of time?

Not at all, being the ‘in the know’ person in your niche doesn’t have to be time consuming. With a few simple systems in place, you can be monitoring a wide variety of information sources in minutes a day. After that, the time required to curate the content on your site is minimal and can be easily outsourced.

For the cost of one quality ghostwritten blog post you can pay a savvy virtual assistant to curate a dozen or more useful items on your blog – scheduling them out over the course of a week to keep your blog active while you tend to other important tasks.

Kelly McCausey has written a guide that shows you how easily this can be set up. Smart Curation Skills demonstrates the time saving systems she uses to curate content for her niche. Check it out:  Smart Curation Skills  I’m sure you will be impressed.

I am taking the Smart Curation Skills course and I am thrilled with how easy it is to add content.  I will be using this for my own blog and several guest posts.   It is easy and anyone can do it.

Please consider joining me in becoming a content curator.