Day One of New Media Expo #NMX 2013

Real quick for those of you following my diet diary, I stayed the same 143.4 no loss no gain. But I had no trouble getting my exercise in today, due to all the walking at #NMX.

This is a recap of my day at New Media Expo for 1/6/13. I was late, couldn’t get motivated to leave the house so I didn’t catch the keynotes. My first interaction was with http://creatorup.com and I totally pulled out the video camera. Krizia MissK, Lon Naylor, Michelle Schoen, and Michael Stewart your ears should of been burning today because I referred him to you before I did the video.

But my first session that I chose to attend was David Risley’s – “Blog Monetization Overview: What Are Your Options To Make Money With a Blog?” I am going to share the 10 business models and what he wanted us to take away from his session. But this first line I liked so much I left it in about mailing your email list.

Stop being afraid of your email list and not marketing to your list.

10 business models (which happen to use a blog)

#1 Ad Networks
#2 Direct Ad Sales
#3 Affiliate Marketing
#4 Info Products
#5 Membership Programs
#6 Freelancing / Coaching
#7 E-Commerce
#8 Build and Sell
#9 Events
#10 Combination of 1-9

The big take aways for attendees to get away from banner ads, blog is not a business it is just a marketing tool. When one treats the marketing tool like the business you will fail.

Clearly identify the outcome or transformation you are delivering to your customers name your price, be willing to have one. Readers are not necessarily customers. Vanity metrics don’t equal money. – David Risley http://blogmarketingacademy.com

I realized during David’s session I have monetized by doing numbers: 3, 4, 6, and 9 via my other sites http://yourvirtualgirlfriday.com and http://yourvirtualeventsgirl.com

I have heard David speak before and he never disappoints great content as always.

Next session was Bill Belew – “4 concrete steps to get 1,000,000 relevant unique visitors to your blogs”

Bill is very passionate along with being a proud daddy, which endears you to him.

Bill covered – why him, 3 problems a blog can solve, and 4 concrete steps

I love how he said: “again and again and again and one more again”. You may of had to be there to get it.

I am not going to tell you “Why Bill Belew” but he gave us Four Timeless absolutes that I will share.

What writers/website owners want to be:

1. Read = Reach = Page Views
2. Thought Leaders = Influencer
3. Reimbursed = Paid
A blog will satisfy all these itches “The Blog is still King, King of Social Media.”

#1 Quantity
How many posts? Bill’s sites have 240-533 articles. He says you write until you see the exponential growth, and then maintain the pace and you will get there.

#2 Quality
SEO basics
1. Tagline
2. Title get your title right, write an article put the title in search engine see what comes up to create title
3. Keywords – listen to your gut
4. Original content “If you don’t have something to add then don’t say anything”
5. Images you must have an image in every posts, captions, and descriptions
6. Authority – getting other people to link to you. The more incoming links you have the more authority you have
7. Internal links – you linking to yourself do it within the post
8. External links – Technorati and find someone who has authority reach out the more often people will reach in
9. Timely topics make the connection
10 Timeless things – How To – 6 of this – Most know facts – Review

#3 Consistency
You write good stuff people come to comment you get bots from google..
Write more, write better and more often until you get the desired results you want.

Do 10 things over again and again.

Fugue about it – Bumble bee Principle do not let people tell you what you can not do! Don’t go there.

#4 Longevity
Write until your idea catches on. #1 reason for failure giving up to soon. – Bill Belew http://BillBelew.com

This is what we received in our welcome to NMX bags.  I wouldn’t mind the iPad from Dreamhost and really liked http://we-care.com $100K Charity Challenge starting 1/7/2013 at 12 pm pacific time – 1/14/2013 at 12 pm pacific time :

We-Care.com supports the following charities:

@charitywater
@aspca
@savethechilden
@cleanh2oaction
@nationalautism

These where my favorite sessions from today, along with the Keynote from @ScottMontey of #FordNMX.

Try as I might I could not convince Scott via Twitter or in person that I should be driving an “Eleanor” Shelby GT 500 Mustang. I asked for the car Scott asked for a $65,000 check. Here is a post I wrote about my name “Eleanor” so you can see why I want a Shelby GT 500 Mustang.

@scottmonty how does an Eleanor get a Ford Eleanor #FordNMX #NMX Shelby GT Mustang…

— Eleanor Prior (@TheEleanorPrior) January 7, 2013

Lol guess the closest I am going to get to a Shelby GT Mustang is driving my daughter’s 99 Ford Mustang #FordNMX a girl can dream..#NMX

— Eleanor Prior (@TheEleanorPrior) January 7, 2013

All joking aside his keynote was great!

Well that is it for day one and my weightloss recap. Oh wait, some troll hacked my site and was redirecting my urls to porn sites on mobile devices. If you where affected by this I am so sorry.