How to Remind Yourself to Promote Your Blog

Today, I have a super simple tip to help you remember to share your blog posts on social media. In many cases, it is useful to schedule your blog posts ahead of time so that they are timed with store new release dates, sale dates and event dates for your digital scrapbooking business. However, if you are always working in the future, it can be difficult to remember to promote your blog posts once they go live - because you have moved on to the next project already!

Remembering to promote your blog post is as simple as subscribing to your own blog so it will show up in your email or on your RSS reader when the post goes live!

Here are two easy options: 

• use your favorite RSS reader (I am partial to Feedly)
• OR subscribe via email using a service like Blogtrottr

Another option is to use an If This This Then That recipe if you are already using this service. The recipe would involve sending you an email if your blog publishes a new item.

Then the only extra step to take is knowing that once you see the item in your reader or email that it's your cue to hop over to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and G+ to SHARE IT.

Are you a fan of automation? In the past, I have used some automatic posting methods for pushing the RSS feed to social media but have not really loved how they formatted or delivered. The ones I tried did not allow me to personalize the content beyond the title of the post and the delivery of accompanying graphics was often unpredictable. I also don't love how some blog sharing services hijiack the URL of your posts so you can't as easily bookmark, share and get traffic hits to your actual address.

BONUS TIP: Make sure you are also subscribed to your own customer newsletter so you will always have confirmation of when a mailing went out and so you can see if anything crazy went wrong with it!

LEVEL UP: Once you have promoted your post, set yourself a reminder to do it AGAIN in 3-5 days. Remember, not everyone sees everything you post! 

OPTIONS:

• Google calendar reminder
• Schedule an email to send again to yourself later with Boomerang for Gmail
• Evernote reminder
• a handwritten note on your calendar

...or whatever you already do to remember appointments and events!

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