blogging

Start by being a second or third rate blogger, and become great, over time.

Sound strange? Ponder this quotation.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

– Steve Brown

We get better at things with training, practice, and more repetition. Just like learning an instrument or playing tennis.

In the case of publishing a blog, if you do it effectively, it will be the single most powerful arrow in your wedding marketing quiver.

A great blog isn’t easy. If it was, everyone would have one. If you develop and maintain one, you will be heads above your competition, in many things, including search engine ranking and business image.

And once you’re out in front, you’ll find it’s easier to stay out in front.

That’s it, that’s all.

Andy Ebon
The Wedding Marketing Authority

Tweet this conference: #wmba THE hashtag for Wedding MBA

Let’s see…. there will be about 1500 attendees at Wedding MBA (starts 9/21 at 8am). And there is a wide world of people who should be there, but for some reason, are not.

There will be general sessions, breakouts, and a trade show. There will be meals and meandering in the halls. People will bump into each other, chat on couches, park their backside on floors, and make plans for nights out and early breakfasts.

That’s big time networking and sharing.

There will be innumerable iPads and iPhones. Maybe a few Blackberries, too. Laptops and WiFi, and darn near anything electronic.

And there will be blogging and tweeting. Attendees will tweet about how great a speaker is. Who is a ‘can’t miss’ because they’ve seen them before. People will take digital pictures and share them on Facebook or TwitPic before you can say BOO! Others will have FlipCam in hand, and will post video clips.

To encourage this sort of cutting edge behavior, Wedding MBA needs a hashtag for Twitter, so people can dial in to the flow of information about the conference.

Wanna play? Just include the hashtag #wmba on your tweets and you’re in the flow. By the way, the tweeting starts now, leading up to, and through the entire conference.

Andy Ebon
The Wedding Marketing Authority