Building Blog Loyalty Through Active Participation.

I wrote about the Internet rules, 1-9-90 as oppose to Pareto Rules, 80-20 on internet participation on my introduction. The rules 1-9-90 was first introduce by Bill Tancer of Technorati at the Web 2.0 Expo. Basically what it mean was, only 1% of visitor to your website is producer and creator, 9 percent will be highly involved “participator” and 90% will be consumer or viewer.

I stand firm by the idiom, creating something out of nothing is much easier than maintaining it and keeping it alive. Thus I would like to ask you a question which one are you.

In order to build blog loyalty through active participation you need to be the 1%. You need to start commenting, actively involve in social networking activity. Again when I say actively involve in social networking activity, you need to stumbleupon often, sending and receive invitation, answering question and post question, tweet often, digg often and yes, the list keep go on and on…

For the blogger community, these could be the unwritten etiquette for active networking in order to build blog loyalty through active participation.

1. Never sell at networking meeting.

On the web, forums, comments, and social media sites are your ‘networking meetings’. Leaving shallow comments at every tangentially relevant site and only recommending your own stuff is the online equivalent to that guy working the room with a thousand business cards. It’s better to make just a few quality contacts who don’t think you’re a jerk.

2. Perfect you pitch

Your online profile is your counterpart to this high-speed sales pitch. The wonderful thing is you have the opportunity to get these first impressions just right and to adjust them over time. You should develop a few key sentences that best describe who you are, what you do and what you can and will offer others. Another good elevator pitch is on what your blog is about. For you to think through these things will help others understand what you can bring to a relationship – in reciprocal, they will also help you understand that too.

3. Give before your get anything.

Be generous. Give something first. Acknowledge their achievement, generously give praise to their ideas, go out and work something out under their own terms. But don’t be so generous. The key is to offer without expectation of reciprocation. When you make a habit of giving, the help you need seems to show up automatically just when you need it. You need to have you own guidelines when will generosity turn into “a sucker”.

4. Prove yourself worthwhile and added value to the network.

No body like to work with a stranger no matter how interesting the stranger is. Beside, the interesting factor is an invitation to get to know more about you blog. It is not because people don’t trust you blog but they need to see whether you have the sustainability of a blogger or just a me too attitude. Which in most cases, a me too attitude blogger will not last and they normally always practice point No. #1. You need to spend time to build your authority. Get involved in community activities like video conference, webminar and so on and so on.

5. Be a connector and “A Go – Getter”

At LinkedIn, I received many request to connect to other people in my network by a people that is outside my circle. They reach to my contact via my first level contact. Eventually they also became my first level contact.

6. Lookout side your circle

My blog is all about domain named development using blogging as a platform. It does not mean I can’t learn anything from a car review site or network marketing website. The topic maybe different but the universal concept is similar and selectively workable at my blog.

7. Be patience.

It takes time to build a relationship or network. It doesn’t happen overnight. But you can see the effect when you patience start to bear some fruit. Some sign you may have noticed, increase in readership, increase in traffic and most noticeably increase in revenue.

8. Look for possible synergy.

Like Darren, this is more toward my own personality style. I like to have a synergy, a balanced and equally compliment the existing of others.

I hope to see your comment at this post since I do believe you are the 1% group. I like to hear you experience in blog networking.

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