{"id":409,"date":"2014-08-29T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-10-19T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:28:34","slug":"get-social-without-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/get-social-without-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get social without social media (and achieve blogging success)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-413 size-full\" title=\"How to get social without social media (and achieve blogging success)?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/How-to-get-social-without-social-media.jpg\" alt=\"How to get social without social media (and achieve blogging success)?\" width=\"650\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/How-to-get-social-without-social-media.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/How-to-get-social-without-social-media-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Getting social is a crucial aspect if you are doing business online. Why? Because getting social means connecting with real people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rather than bombarding people with a variety of marketing techniques, getting social is a more informal and smooth way to get attention. And by becoming a social animal you (your business) connect with real people. Making friends is part of the game and doing it in a genuine manner (without expecting returns) is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why is it so important to genuinely connect with people? It is because real, living people are the ones who do business with you. They are the ones who will buy your products, they are the ones who will avail your services &#8211; in short, real people are the ones upon whom you should base your business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You have to develop a business that will solve the problems of people or that will vent their desires. Your business should make their life easy, or exciting, or less painful or something like that. Your business should care for people and their pain points. All in all &#8211; real people should be involved and they should be the base of your business.<\/p>\n<p>And why is \u201csocializing\u201d important? If you want to base your business on real people, you would need to do any or all of the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<ul>\n<li>Survey the \u201chot\u201d and most popular niches among people<\/li>\n<li>Survey about their most pressing problems\/pain points etc.<\/li>\n<li>To know how to serve them better<\/li>\n<li>To know how to improve your business so they can find it more useful<\/li>\n<li>To make contacts to market your business and to take it to the next level<\/li>\n<li>To get on press and make your business popular<\/li>\n<li>To do business collaborations<\/li>\n<li>To help other businesses<\/li>\n<li>\u2026 And much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you can see socializing helps in a lot of ways and in fact without being social, you cannot do business (both online and offline). Here is a post I wrote on Problogging Success emphasising this fact:<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.probloggingsuccess.com\/get-social-for-blogging-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">You must get social for your blogging success<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now that we have established the importance of socializing let\u2019s get to the \u201chow to\u201d of it.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we talk about socializing we think about social media, right? Well social media platforms like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and the like are great places to socialise &#8211; to hang out with friends, to market your business, to make contacts and much more.<\/p>\n<p>But social media could be a GREAT distraction. If your marketing strategy involves social media (it should!) then you certainly know what I am talking about.<\/p>\n<p>You login to Facebook to promote a post of yours and then end up doing the infinite scrolling. You login to YouTube to comment on your favourite channel and then end up watching countless cute cat videos.<\/p>\n<p>You login to Twitter to participate in one of the community chats and then end up scrolling through the tweets, checking the links, and watching videos.<\/p>\n<p>I can go on and on, but you probably got my point already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\"><strong>While I am going to talk about getting social \u201cwithout\u201d social media, I am NOT against social media in any way. In fact, social media should be part of your blog marketing strategy.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>However, socialising or connecting with people is not limited to social media. That is my point. Let\u2019s see what options we have got in this direction.<\/p>\n<h2>#1 Blogging communities<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-290 size-full\" title=\"Dosplash community\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dosplash-community.jpg\" alt=\"Dosplash community\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dosplash-community.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dosplash-community-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blogging communities are places where like-minded folks hang out. And that is a perfect place for getting social, right? Socializing with like-minded folks makes it really \u201csocial\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, blogging communities are mainly used like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People <a title=\"Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\">join the community<\/a>, create a username and password, and then they login and submit links ONLY to their own blog posts. And then they leave the community and never come back until they have another blog post of their own to submit to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is NOT how you socialize, right? You know how to socialize, I don\u2019t have to teach you that because we, human beings, are social animals \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>While blogging communities are great platforms to help you socialize, it is your responsibility to make the most out of it. As I said, if you do not take responsibility to make the most out of blogging communities, your time there will be wasted.<\/p>\n<p>However if you DO engage and involve, you can get great benefits. You can make new connections, gain traffic and you can expand your network which can in turn take your blog to the next level!<\/p>\n<p>I have written a detailed post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/make-the-most-out-of-blogging-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to make the most of blogging communities<\/a>. Check it out. I personally use a few good blogging communities. You could use them as well. Here they are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizsugar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bizsugar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inbound.org\" target=\"_blank\">inbound.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DoSplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiblogger.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indiblogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klinkk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Klinkk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ManageWP.org\" target=\"_blank\">ManageWP.org<\/a> (I have yet to use this community. But it looks promising)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>You should also check out this post:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosplash.com\/blog\/join-blogging-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why small business owners should join blogging communities?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>#2 Blog commenting<\/h2>\n<p>Well I\u2019m a fan of blog commenting. It has helped me with taking my business to the next level. A lot of contacts I have made today are made via blog commenting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<p>I love blog commenting for many reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It helps me connect with new bloggers on a consistent basis<\/li>\n<li>It helps me build my brand (for this I have to be consistent enough, and be useful with my comments)<\/li>\n<li>It helps me voice my opinion in the blogosphere<\/li>\n<li>I can showcase my expertise and be useful to people. At the same time I can build my authority in the blogosphere.<\/li>\n<li>It works great for socialising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now the last point is the focus of this post. Through blog commenting I not only connect with the blogger but also with his\/her community. Sometimes I leave a comment on the post as a conversation with the author. Sometimes I reach out to the community &#8211; if I find a comment useful and insightful, I leave a reply to the comment and initiate the conversation. This helps me to establish connection with the commenter.<\/p>\n<p>However, in order for blog commenting to work effectively, you have to make sure you don\u2019t leave comments for the sake of it. Or for the sake of stalking people to get their attention and eventually establish connection with them &#8211; this is a BIG NO!<\/p>\n<p>Especially when you reply to commenters, don\u2019t try to hijack the topic or be rude, if you have to disagree with them. Being polite, staying in context and being useful and friendly DO matter a lot!<\/p>\n<p>If you strategically do blog commenting for a consistent period of time, you can get GREAT benefits with blog commenting.<\/p>\n<h2>#3 Guest blogging<\/h2>\n<p>Just like blog commenting, guest blogging is an effective way to socialise with your target audience. Now, this may sound strange to you. I actually didn\u2019t believe this concept (that I realised myself &#8211; no one taught me) until I realised what results I got with guest blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers usually do guest bloggers to gain traffic and build authority. I personally found that, apart from the traffic I got, I was able to establish many new and genuine connections over the time.<\/p>\n<p>Those connections were purely genuine, helpful and helped take my blog to the next level. Without doing guest blogging I wouldn\u2019t have been able to establish those connections.<\/p>\n<p>Again, just like blog commenting, you have to adopt a strategic approach to guest blogging as well.<\/p>\n<p>You should not focus on building links and just start blasting guest blogging all over the web. Your guest blog should not be a mediocre blog post or \u201cjust another &#8211; 5 ways to do *something*\u201d post. You should publish your extraordinary and your best content on other blogs as guest post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<p><strong>I recommend reading these posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.probloggingsuccess.com\/managed-posts-featured-alist-blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">How I managed to get my posts featured on A-List blogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incomediary.com\/guest-post\" target=\"_blank\">How to write a viral guest post for an A-List blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I know it is tempting to publish great content on your blog. But you have to hold on &#8211; you should rather publish that post on a blog that is larger than yours (in terms of audience and reach) and a blog that have a stronger authority than yours. This way you can reach more audience with your outstanding content and it will be easier this way to establish your authority.<\/p>\n<p>And do I have to say that you can reach and connect with more people when you land your guest post on a high authority blog? Connecting with more people = more options to socialize.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>There you have it! 3 ways via which you can socialise with people in your industry (and even outside of your niche). Now, social media is great for socialising; but it is not the only option!<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who find social media to be a distraction, or if you prefer to have more ways to socialize, or if you\u2019re not comfortable with social media, these 3 ways would suit you much better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Do you know\/use any other ways to socialise with your readers, customers, peers and friends online? 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