This weekend was an intense one folks! In fact it might take me until Wednesday to truly recover! Why you ask? Well let me tell you! I got to participate in the Blog Workshop’s first online conference and it was Ah-Mazing! It was Learning, learning and more learning all weekend long AND from the comfort of home! If you follow my on twitter you may have seen the #TBWC13 hashtag used a lot!
Here are some highlights of what I learned…
“Be busy AWAY from your blog to direct people TO your blog. Engaging elsewhere makes people go digging!” ~ Laura Summers from Naked Blogging
“SEO is leverage! It’s the ability to create traffic with out CREATING the traffic.” Dan R. Morris from Letters from Dan
“A brand is not just what your blog looks like, but it’s also what you stand for.” Lindsay Lee from Blog Trends
“Brands (and advertisers) are looking for engagement-focused: Traffic + Quality Content + Interaction” Ryan Shram from Izea Media
There were a number of experts and TONS of practical information! Like I literally have a “blog to do list” that is going to keep me busy for at least a month! For a lot of participants this was their first conference, and a great way to launch their blog and blogging career. For me this was my 3rd conference, so somethings I had heard before, but I still learned lots and was refreshed on some ever-changing aspects of the blogging world. I don’t think blogging is ever something that can ever be mastered … it’s an ever-changing and evolving thing… and there is always so much to learn! But opportunities like this at home conference definitely help make a difference in the level of your game!
There will be another Blog Workshop Conference next year, and if you’re a blogger I highly recommend it! In the mean time, get involved with the TBW community ! There is lots to be learned and some great monthly live classes planned! I’ll be back in June for Dan R. Morris’ SEO workshop! Can’t wait!
Great review. I missed most of it but as I say in my recap, I will be playing catchup! As for that blogging to do list, I can't help but mention the blogathon I run twice a year. The next one is coming up in June. It's a blogging marathon to whittle down your to do list. I hope you will join us!
I'm off to check out your blog ab it more, love the Sh*t You Should Know About Blogging category!
Thanks Kathleen! I will definitely check out your blogathon! Whats the site address?
Great post, Jennifer! I've been to a couple online conferences, and The Blog Workshop did an excellent job of putting this conference together. And, the attendees were out-of-this-world awesome! 🙂
Thanks for sharing! Did not know about the TBW community. We're a fairly new blog.
Definitely worth joining! Its a great resource for learning just about everything there is to know about blogging 🙂
Hi BFF, we'd love to have you join… feel free to connect and ask me any questions you may have on twitter/FB or our community!
Yay! Had fun meeting you for sure.
Thanks! Looking forward to the webinar tomorrow! Woot Woot!
Wonderful review Jennifer. It reminded me that I have to post mine soon as well… will help me recap what I've learned. Thanks for sharing and the inspiration.
Awesome review Jennifer, congrats on your win also! We're so happy to hear all the positive feedback, recordings will be available soon and we have a surprise going out for our #TBWC13 attendees soon. Hope to see you all at our SEO workshop with Dan R. Morris 🙂 June 26th!
That reminds me, they did have some awesome tweets with some good conference nuggets in the. I'm glad you showed that too