Local Posts- Keep ‘em coming!
On occasion, I have read posts and comments questioning why we should be writing posts about local events, places or people. ( Don’t go there…. this is not an invitation to tell me why you don’t want to write or read about local posts. I respect your opinion but write your own post about it!)
One of the first challenges I remember taking courtesy of Bob Stewart was to write posts about events happening in our local area. Ok… I was on board for that. One of the reasons was that it provided a blog topic for me.
I started by picking on asking friends for my first local posts. The hardest thing I had to do was explain to them what the heck a blog was and what was an ActiveRain.
Flash forward to this weekend. I was attending a wedding and ran into a friend whose restaurant, the Cannoli Kitchen, was the subject of one of my posts.
“I just wanted to thank you again for writing about us. I’m still getting calls from people who found us from the post. I had no idea what it could do.”
I wrote that post almost 5 years ago.
These posts are some of the easiest you’ll ever write. The information is already there. All you have to do is take some good photos and be informative.
~ Once you’ve written the post, be sure to get it out on Facebook, Google+ and any other social media you would use that would be seen by locals.
~ Email the post to the owner/manager of the business.
~ Take them a framed copy of your post!
My friend has opened up another restaurant, and has plans for another, so expect more posts soon!
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