Become a Blog-trepreneur! with Hollis Gillespie and Mike Alvear
This is Atlanta’s Most Popular Blogging Workshop!*
If you’ve been thinking about starting a blog or if you’ve already started one, this workshop will teach you how to sharpen its concept, write better posts, come up with magnetic headlines, generate more ideas, rank higher on Google, triple your traffic and start making money.
(*we serve booze and guarantee inappropriate conversation.)
You probably have a ton of questions about your blog with nobody to answer them, right?
Questions like:
- Do I have a compelling concept?
- Where’s the traffic?
- Why is nobody linking to me?
- How do I write better headlines?
- How do I get more people to read my blog?
- How do I get ranked higher on Google?
- Should I rename my blog?
- How do I get people to comment on my posts?
- How do I make money off my blog?
- What’s the fastest way to come up with keywords?
- Is Google Image the only place to get photos?
- How can I tell if an image is copyrighted?
- How do I get advertisers?
- What’s the difference between a visitor and a page view?
- How do I promote my blog with Facebook & Twitter?
- What about YouTube & Linked-in?
- What’s the best way to write my About Me page?
- What’s an RSS feed?
- How can I get more subscribers to my blog?
- How do I track subscribers?
- How do I get people to read more than just one post?
Now, imagine getting answers to all your questions while sitting across the table, face-to-face with the hilarious and irrepressible back-page columnist and blogger for Atlanta Magazine, Hollis Gillespie, and boffo (in a brainy way) syndicated columnist and Huffington Post blogger Mike Alvear.
Sign up NOW and confirm your seat.
Hurry, the Atlanta blog workshop is limited to 30 attendees and we’ve sold out every blogging class!
THIS CLASS IS SO POPULAR, THAT WE SELL OUT EVERY TIME!
| Buy Now! to attend the class on SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 11am – 5pm |
Cost: $175*
100% Safe and Secure – We are PayPal verified.
Click now and you’ll get an immediate email
confirming your seat.
Instant confirmation only available online
(to pay by check, see below)
This brings us to the first benefit of enrolling in our Atlanta Blog Seminar:
Personal Attention From Two Of The Most Prominent Bloggers In Atlanta.
You’ll get to ask all your burning and why-is-it-burning questions and get answers from two of the leading experts in their field. So, a little bit about us:
Hollis Gillespie
Syndicated humor columnist and author of the popular Atlanta magazine blog “Inappropriate Conversation.” Gillespie is also the best-selling author of three memoirs (titled Bleachy-Haired Bitch; Tales from a Bad Neighborhood, Confessions of a Recovering Slut and Other Love Stories, and Trailer Trashed; My Dubious Attempts Toward Upward Mobility), a radio commentator for NPR and Georgia Public Broadcasting, the personal-essay judge for the Writers Digest annual creative-writing competition, a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, television writer and not to mention accomplished trapeze artist (not really, but she’s very bendy).
Mike Alvear
Huffington Post blogger Mike Alvear is the co-host of HBO’s popular sex advice series, The Sex Inspectors and author of Men Are Pigs But We Love Bacon, Alexander The Fabulous: The Man Who Brought The World To Its Knees, and Sex Inspectors Masterclass: How to Have an Amazing Sex Life. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Salon.com, and the Los Angeles Times. Alvear has made guest appearances on the Today Show, Tyra Banks and The Greg Behrendt Show, authors a relationship advice column syndicated to the gay press and blogs at www.mikealvear.com (where he’s always looking for guest bloggers–check it out!)
SO ENOUGH ABOUT US, LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU…
Why would you want to start
a new blog or turbo-charge the one you’ve got?
We can think of five reasons:
| 1. Get a Job Imagine the VP of Widget International deciding between two finalists. You’ve got a blog called “Market Your Widgets” and the other candidate doesn’t. Who wins? 2. Sell Your Book 3. Enhance Your Business 4. Break into Writing 5. Get Your Ideas Out There |
And the best way to do that is to sign up for the only “Blogging Bootcamp” in Atlanta. Here’s another peek at what you’re going to learn in our 6-hour blogging seminar:
- How to discover and leverage your blogging voice
- How to maximize your blogging ROI
- How to develop killer content
- How to set short term and long term goals for your blog
- How to effectively analyze your stats and blog traffic
- How to increase your readership and develop loyalty
- Specific strategies and techniques to improve your “findability” on Google
- Maintaining professional boundaries while still being personable
Now, before we get to the boots-on-the-ground view, here’s the 2nd most important benefit to taking our Atlanta Blogging Workshop:
| A Professional Assessment of Your Blog! |
You need another set of eyes to look at your work. Are your ideas sound? Does your execution match your vision? Are you on the right track? Whether you’re spot-on, need to move a few degrees over or need a head-to-toe revamp,
| you’re going to experience an enormous sense of relief when somebody outside of your family and friends gives you sound direction. |
And by the way, if you don’t have a blog, don’t sweat it–we’ll help you come up with a concept.
Now, let’s talk about the ground-level knowledge you’re going to leave with:
How to Write Better Blogs:
- Expert tips for outstanding web writing
- How to blog with Magnetic Headlines
- How to make a blog with a “heat map” that attracts readers.
- Create a sneeze page and propel readers deep into your blog.
How to Increase traffic to your blog:
- Five things you can do to double your readers in 30 days.
- Writing secrets that’ll rank you higher on Google.
(It’s about phrases not keywords). - How to start a link exchange program (linking to other blogs to drive traffic).
How to use Social Media to promote your blog:
- An overview of posts that went viral on Twitter, and how these elements can help you do the same.
- Set up Facebook so it automatically grabs your latest blog post and splash it on your page.
- Inventive ways of using YouTube, Flkr and ConstantContact
How to Make Money Blogging*:
- 5 ways to find direct advertisers for your blog
- The best ad networks to join (they’re free!)
- How to find a sponsor for your blog
- The 3 things you should look for in affiliate marketing (getting a cut of what you sell on your blog)
* Important! You must have a minimum of 15,000 to 20,000 page views a month before the $$$ start flowing in. The most critical thing you can do to generate revenue is to GROW TRAFFIC. No worries–we’ll show you how.
How to Improve the Look of Your Blog:
- Which “Theme” should you start off with (or switch to)
- Should you start –or move– your blog to its own domain or keep it hosted where it is?
- Color schemes, type faces, sidebar widgets, line spacing, oh my! What’s best for you?
- How to find the highest quality royalty-free images.
The cost of the Atlanta Blogging Class is only:
$175
For a 6-hour blogging class, that works out to a little over $29 an hour. Such a deal! And in this intensely competitive environment, worth every penny.
Before you sign up, take a look at what past participants have to say:
| “Hey Hollis, I wanted to drop you a note and tell you the good news. I’m going to get paid to write! I’ve been asked to join two different online mags as a regular contributor. My blog has been getting a lot of attention lately and both of these jobs are coming from buzz created by articles I’ve written. Hopefully this will is a sign that I’m on the “write” track and I can use these opportunities to get my book published. Anyway, I’m way excited to get paid to do something I love!!! THANKS A MILLION for the encouragement!” – Michelle Bollinger “When Mike showed me how easy it is for each of my blog posts to appear on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, AUTOMATICALLY, without doing a thing outside of the setup, I couldn’t believe it! Now I’m getting a ton of traffic from those sites.” “What a team! Two great writers coming from different angles made the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Hollis helped me reposition my blog and write more compelling posts and Mike helped me use some amazing guerilla tactics. Like the one about getting links. I struck gold with his advice (don’t ask other bloggers to link to your site; ask them to link to a post you wrote that complements a post they wrote). |
Sign up now and take your blog to the next level.
If you’re a professional, we’ll show you how to build expert status by sharing knowledge and being insanely useful to your readers.
If you’re a “civilian” who wants to showcase your humor, political insight or social commentary, we’ll help you express it and get more people to read you.
If you’re a business, we’ll help put a human face on your company and get you attention, build loyalty, and generate sales.
Sign up NOW and confirm your seat.
Hurry, the Atlanta blog workshop is limited to 30 attendees and we’ve sold out every blogging class!
THIS CLASS IS SO POPULAR, THAT IN SEPTEMBER WE ARE OFFERING TWO CLASS DATES!
| Buy Now! to attend the class on SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 11am – 5pm |
Cost: $175*
100% Safe and Secure – We are PayPal verified.
Click now and you’ll get an immediate email
confirming your seat.
Instant confirmation only available online
(to pay by check, see below)
* Includes finger food, champagne and inappropriate conversation.
The Atlanta Blogging Course is held at Telephone Factory Lofts, 828 Ralph McGill Blvd. #106, Atlanta, GA 30306.
We can’t wait to strap a rocket to the back of your blog and watch you take off!
All the Best,
Hollis Gillespie, funny bitch
and
Mike Alvear, the funny bitch’s bitch
P.S. – The Atlanta Blogging Workshop is the only Atlanta-based blog seminar for beginning and intermediate bloggers. It’s led by two of Atlanta’s most prominent writers–Atlanta Magazine’s Hollis Gillespie and Huffington Post’s Mike Alvear. For intermediate bloggers this 6-hour workshop will help you write killer content, triple your traffic, and start generating an income stream. For beginners, you’ll learn everything you need to set up, develop and promote your blog. Sign up now–every one of our Atlanta blogging workshops sells out!
Questions?
Email us at: info@michaelalvear.com
Or call our office: 404-444-8324
| Want another peek at our Atlanta Blog workshop?
Well, let’s start with our special Guest Speaker… |
Tessa Horehled
The founder of one of Atlanta’s biggest blogs, Driveafastercar.com, Tessa is one of the most respected Social Media gurus in the Southeast. She’s worked with Turner Broadcasting Systems, NBC, Borders, MTV, AARP, Universal, Scripps, H&R Block, JC Penney and Discovery.
You’re going to learn all the secrets she taught them: Search engine optimization, hands-on blog publicity, viral marketing, and social networking.
Now let’s get down to some of the nitty-gritty take-home details you’ll learn in our Atlanta blog workshop. Here’s a sampling:
Did You Know…
- You can increase your Google ranking by labeling your images with relevant keywords?
- The best way to get people to read more than just one page is to “interlink posts” (end each post with a link to your other relevant posts)?
- That headlines that start with “What Everybody Ought to Know About ______” capture 50% more attention than those that don’t?
- Facebook has an application you can put on your browser that’ll automatically take the image on your latest post (and it’s summary) and place it in your status feed?
- The best way to prepare for blog writing is to use Twitter (it forces you to get to the point quickly and creatively in less than 140 characters)?
- There’s a simple HTML code you can use to solve one of the most frustrating aspects of blogging: placing side-by-side photos?
- That there’s a 3-step rule to incorporating keywords in the body of your copy?
- There are over 20 royalty-free image databases that compete with Google Image?
- That you should NEVER begin a post without searching for relevant keywords and keyword phrases in either Google Adwords, KeywordTracker or KeywordDiscovery?
- That the job of your headline is to get people to read the first line that comes after it? And that the job of the first line is to get people to read the second line (and so on)?
- That one of the best ways to find subjects to blog about is to search Technorati to see what the top blogs in your field are talking about?
- That the most effective way to get attention is to use keywords in the title of your posts?
- That the single most effective thing you can do to increase your Google search rank is to get bigger blogs linking to you?
THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE GOLDEN NUGGETS YOU CAN EXPECT TO WALK AWAY WITH IN OUR ATLANTA BLOGGING CLASS.
NOW HERE’S WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU:
- Sign up. We’ll ask for the URL address of your blog (so that we can analyze it before class) and a few other details.
- Bring your laptop to the class, if you want (we’ve got wifi).
- Start writing down your questions so that when you get to the workshop your mind won’t go blank.
- Bring a folder– you’re going to need it for all the leave-behind materials.
- Bring a sense of humor–you’re going to need that too. We don’t do boring.
Speaking of Humor…
Wait’ll you get a load of where we conduct our seminar:
SISTER LOUISA’S ART GALLERY IN THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING ROOM.
Where the sign greeting you is, “Come on in, Precious!”
And the motto is, “The higher the hair the closer to God.”
And the art hanging on the walls includes the Virgin Mary asking the Baby Jesus, “Who’s Your Daddy!?”
Because like we said, we don’t do boring.
Now before you sign up, can we just brag a little? Here’s more of what past attendees have said about our Atlanta blog seminar:
| “You know how you always remember that ONE THING in a seminar that’s usually some small throw-away piece of advice? Here’s that one thing I learned from Hollis and Mike on generating ideas for my blog: Set up a Google News alert for key words in my industry. I’ve never run out of ideas since.” – Susan Miller “Hollis made me laugh till I cried…and got the point. I’ve never heard anyone use so much humor to make such great points. Since learning her 7-point Headline Writing Technique my posts have never been better. Hollis also noticed it wasn’t just my titles that needed tweaking, but what she called the “opening statement” after each title.” Wow! Thanks for a great workshop.” “Here’s what I learned in the seminar about writing blog posts: Stop saying what you’re going to say and say it. I was opening sentences with stuff like, ‘I’d like to take this opportunity to extend to you my very sincere congratulations.’ You know, instead of just saying, “Congratulations!” “I left that seminar with more resources than I ever expected. I especially loved the take-home lists that showed the best sites for almost every aspect of blogging. I especially liked the list of royalty-free picture sites (I thought Google Image was my only option–who knew there were DOZENS!). |
Are You Ready To Put
More Bang In Your Blog?
Then….
| Sign up NOW and confirm your seat!
Hurry, the Atlanta blog workshop is limited to 30 attendees and we’ve sold out every blogging class!
Cost: $175* 100% Safe and Secure – We are PayPal verified. Instant confirmation only available online *Includes champagne, fingerfood and inappropriate conversation. |
We’re located just north of Downtown Atlanta in the Poncey-Highlands area. Our Atlanta blogging seminar students come from Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett County. They come from midtown, Marietta, Norcross, Sandy Springs, near the perimeter, outside the perimeter, on Peachtree or north of metro Atlanta. That includes Suwanee, Lithonia, Lawrenceville, Kennesaw, Emory, Douglasville, Decatur, Chamblee, Conyers, Buford, Alpharetta, Saturn, Pluto, and the ocassional escapee from the nearest black hole.
Atlanta Blog Class
Hollis Gillespie & Mike Alvear
P.O. Box 7321
Atlanta, GA 30357-0321
Terms and conditions subject to change.
Copyright 2009 Hollis Gillespie & Mike Alvear | All rights reserved
To pay by check:
- Write a check for the cost of the class payable to “Hollis Gillespie” and mail to Hollis Gillespie, P.O. Box 7321, Atlanta, GA 30357-0321.
- Using the contact page, send Hollis a note. Include your name, email, which seminar you are signing up for, and the date the check was mailed.
- When Hollis receives your email, she will email you a preliminary confirmation. After Hollis receives your check, you will get a confirmation email notifying you that you are registered in the Atlanta blog course.
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We’re located just north of Downtown Atlanta in the Poncey-Highlands area. Our Atlanta blogging seminar students come from Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett County. They come from midtown, Marietta, Norcross, Sandy Springs, near the perimeter, outside the perimeter, on Peachtree or north of metro Atlanta. That includes Suwanee, Lithonia, Lawrenceville, Kennesaw, Emory, Douglasville, Decatur, Chamblee, Conyers, Buford, Alpharetta, Saturn, Pluto, and the occasional escapee from the nearest black hole.
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