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3 Steps to a Successful Tribe

 

 

This time around at the Guest Posting segment here, I am very excited to introduce Michelle from A Dish of Daily Life. She specializes in social media marketing, photo management  and she is also a lifestyle blogger. Her hobbies include sports photography, running and enjoying  outdoors. When I invited Michelle to write for us, I already knew what I was going to request of her. I wanted her to share with us any tips on  social media marketing that could benefit one’s blog or one’s business- both online and off. The blue print she lays down encompasses all the ground rules but if you want to learn more, you could always visit her Blog, Face Book or Twitter. So, here we go! 

 

 

Hi! It’s Michelle from  A Dish of Daily Life   Michele

I’m very excited to be guest posting here today for A Momless Mom! I’m a soccer mom with 3 children, and have been married to my college sweetheart for over 20 years. I’m also a WAHM, helping small businesses find solutions to their social media needs. In addition to blogging, I love helping people find ways to organize, share and enjoy their memories. If you visit me on my blog, you’ll find posts about my family, photos and memory keeping, and social media. Recently I wrote a post on how to create a successful tribe of online friends on my own blog; today I’ll be sharing some tips on how to formalize that tribe and set ground rules for success!  

 

 

3 Steps to a Successful Tribe

 

Many of us have unofficial tribes…fellow bloggers whose posts we comment on frequently. Some of these unofficial tribe members we can even count on to pin or tweet our content. But have you ever considered taking the next step and making it official? Formalizing your tribe can go a long way towards helping you grow your blog and achieve specific goals.

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In order to have a successful tribe, you need to:

 

Choose like-minded bloggers to work with.

When I say like-minded, I mean people who are in a similar place and have a similar mindset. Your blogs don’t have to be in the same genre. But you wouldn’t want to pair up with someone who posts “when they feel like it” a few times a month if you’re blogging 3 times a week. You want to work with people who are prepared to give the same effort to the “tribe” that you will. Most likely someone who isn’t making it a priority to write frequently isn’t going to spend the same amount of time on engagement that you will, which brings us to point #2.

 

Engage with tribe members on all social media avenues. 

That means:

  • liking, commenting, and sharing from each other’s Facebook pages
  • sharing content and tweeting with each other
  • pinning relevant blog posts
  • liking and commenting on Instagram pictures
  • +1’ing and engaging on Google +
  • and of course, commenting on their blogs

Sound like too much work? It’s not. You can set up systems to make this easy.

  • Use Bloglovin groups to organize a group for your tribe.
  • Create interest lists on Facebook or set up a private group.
  • Create a list just for your tribe’s tweets on Twitter using a program like Hootsuite.

By streamlining like this, your tribe’s information will be in one place and you can comment, share, tweet and engage quickly and efficiently! As a result, more people will see your Facebook posts (and hopefully will engage as well), your Twitter presence will grow, and your traffic WILL grow as a result.

Another little tip…. if you want to tag someone on Google +, you can mention them by simply adding the + sign before you type their name. If their notification setting allows it, they’ll be able to see the mention. With Facebook, you’d use the @ symbol before typing the name. Generally even if you are friends with them personally as well, you’d tag their blog Facebook page, because that is where they are most likely looking to increase traffic. And on Twitter, you will want to make sure you use their Twitter handle, which also starts with an @ symbol.

And this goes without saying, make it easy for your tribe (and everyone else) to share by making sure your share buttons work properly!

 

Guest blog for each other. 

This is a great way to introduce one another to each other’s fan base! The day your guest post goes live, write a little post introducing your guest post and directing your traffic over to the post that you wrote for their blog. That way you are each introducing your fans to each other that day!

If you’re not quite sure how to meet other bloggers, here’s some tips on how to build a tribe of online friends.  

 

Do you have any tips to add? Please share them with us!

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  3. Janine Huldie says

    Thank you for sharing what you learned and I try very hard to do this myself with others like yourself and so happy to have gotten to know some really wonderful bloggers this way also. And I know you also do very much do most of this yourself, but what I have seen!! 🙂
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  4. Kim@Co-Pilot Mom says

    Great tips, Michelle! I had heard making about a Twitter list a while back and then didn’t set one up. What a great way to increase interaction! 🙂
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    • Michelle says

      I have a really great unofficial group and they are all awesome! (You are one of them of course!). I’m just suggesting a smaller group that we are even more conscientious with, on all social media, may be beneficial as well. I will continue in my efforts to help everyone in either my unofficial or official tribe – I am appreciative of all of my tribe members! And I feel I am very lucky to have them all in my life too!!
      Michelle recently posted…How Having an Official Tribe Can Make a Difference in Your Blog’s SuccessMy Profile

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  9. Ilene says

    Your tips are always so good. I need to get on Hootsuite. And bloglovin. And just do more of the awesome things you’re doing. Period.

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  12. Tamara says

    SUCH great tips. I find that every week or so, I change something to be more connected or streamlined. Or both. It could be ever-changing social media, but it’s also just about reading tips from all you greats about doing great things that hadn’t even occurred to me. Such a work-in-progress and I know it would be a lot faster if I wasn’t off uploading photos and chasing the little ones. I dream about a week of just working on all of this.
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  15. Alexa (Kat Biggie) says

    These are really good tips and I think that your idea is really super. There are so many great blogs and bloggers out there, but it’s so difficult to get to them all in one day, sometimes even in one week. I like the idea of having 3 – 5 people that you know, come hell or high water, will be tweeting your stuff, commenting, and sharing away. I have a wonderful unofficial tribe who comment like champs, but we could all be a little bit better at the Social Media promotion. Thanks for these tips.
    Alexa (Kat Biggie) recently posted…Change – the only constantMy Profile

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    • Michelle says

      I think we meet the people we want to be in our official tribe over time! You may already know who they are…they comment on your blog more often than anyone else, tweet or share your content more than anyone else, etc. And I think we all worry too much!! Its a mom thing!! If someone doesn’t want to be a part of your group, more than likely it’s not you…it’s them. Everyone’s circumstances are different!
      Michelle recently posted…Buffalo Chicken Dip with Texas Pete’s Buffalo Wing SauceMy Profile

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