Whether you are just learning how to create a blog website or if you’re an experienced blogger, you can learn a lot from the networking opportunities available at blogging conferences.
If you are serious about taking your blogging to the next level, the only way you’re going to get the kind of insight, inside information, and industry contacts you need to take things to the next level is by attending any one of the major blogging conferences held every year around the world.
Some people balk and blanch and the idea of spending money to fly out to a blogging conference and invest a handful of days – and sometimes more than a week – on one of these conferences, but you don’t want to get suckered into that kind of thinking.
Things happen at these kinds of conferences that happen absolutely nowhere else, giving you an opportunity to shortcut your path to success and skyrocket your career as a blogger all at the exact same time.
Here are just a handful of critically important reasons ALL bloggers could benefit from attending a blogging conference.
The networking potential is off the charts
Blogging is, by its very nature, and incredibly solitary and secluded career.
Most of the time you’re pouring over research to produce new content, uploading new posts to your blogging platform, managing comments and your social media, and working on marketing and advertising your blog – which doesn’t leave a lot of time to get out and network with fellow bloggers that can accelerate your success.
On top of that, the odds are pretty good that you don’t have all that many professional bloggers in your regular social network. It can feel very isolating when you don’t have any friends or family members to talk about the challenges of blogging, and there’s nothing worse than sharing some of your big hits in this career and having them fall on deaf ears simply because nobody really “gets it”.
At a blogging conference, the networking potential is absolutely off the charts. EVERYONE there is going to be involved in blogging in one way, shape, or form and you’ll be able to connect with like-minded people that can give you great ideas, great feedback, and become critical parts of your success moving forward.
You get to learn from those that have been there before
Blogging conferences are hotspots for inside information to leak out, giving you access to the kind of inside information that you simply wouldn’t have been able to unlock any other way outside of grinding at blogging for hours and hours and making all kinds of mistakes yourself.
Seasoned bloggers aren’t shy about sharing their success tips and tricks at these kinds of events. They know EXACTLY what it was like to be in your shoes, understand just how tough it is to get a new blog up off of the ground floor, and want to help as many people as they can enjoy the kind of success that they now see on a daily basis.
Blogging conferences always have a number of speakers that will help you find the missing puzzle pieces you need to unlock your own success. Amazingly enough, some of the most influential and important things you might ever learn from these speakers can come from cast off statements or things they talk about almost as an aside – never really even understanding themselves just how important the nuggets of truth they were dropping really were at that point in time.
You get yourself “out there” in front of influencers
Blog sponsors, advertisers, marketers, and patrons are always active at blogging conferences and there may not be any better way to get yourself out in front of these influencers than by making yourself available at these conferences.
If you’re serious about using your blog as a springboard towards the kind of financial future you’ve always dreamed of, creating absolutely killer content is only one piece of the puzzle.
Sure, you need to have a blog worth visiting, a blog that people get excited about, and content that people just can’t get enough of – but this isn’t the Field of Dreams.
Even if you build it, they may not come.
Sponsors and influencers are traffic generation superstars. Once you hook up with these kinds of people or these kinds of organizations, traffic generation gets kicked into autopilot and you can really take things to the next level.
You’ll be able to connect with these kinds of influencers, get your name and your blog out in front of them, and may even be able to strike up deals and new relationships with these movers and shakers. It’s impossible to quantify just how valuable these kinds of relationships can be, but they are always valuable – and usually can only be established at these kinds of conferences.
Get a better look at all the moving parts of the blogging industry
It can be very easy to fall into a myopic view of the world of blogging when you are knee-deep in the trenches of producing content and promoting your blog, never really coming up for air and having a look at the state of the blogging world in general.
This can prove to be disastrous, however, especially if you aren’t keeping a weather eye on the horizon to get out in front of major storms or shakeups that could have a huge impact on your ability to operate a successful blog.
Blogging conferences ALWAYS talk about these kinds of threats, these kinds of changes, and what everyone can do to mitigate and manage these new changes and situations. They are the perfect place to learn about new threats, new opportunities, and new ways to promote and improve your blog’s position – not only in your industry, but in the world of blogging in general.
This gives you a little bit of altitude so that you can start to look at how your blog fits in the grand scheme of things. It allows you to have a much more strategic approach to improving your blog, and gives you a competitive advantage over the rest of your industry or market – particularly those that aren’t attending blogging conferences themselves!
Helps you connect with core partners
Pretty much everyone can start a blog all on their own and with no outside help, but if you want to take your blog to the next level you’re going to need the help of some pretty specialized experts – and that’s where blogging conferences really shine.
Web designers and developers, content creators and researchers, ghost writers, marketers, advertisers, and a whole host of other potential core partners flooded these types of events looking for new opportunities.
You are going to be smack dab in the middle of this fray, and you are going to be EXACTLY the kind of person that these people are looking to connect with.
All of a sudden it isn’t you that are chasing down a new web designer to help you overhaul your website, it is in you chasing down ghostwriters and researchers that can help you improve your flow of content, and it isn’t you chasing down marketers and advertisers that can unlock a flood of targeted traffic to your blog platform.
No. At a blogging conference the script is flipped completely and it is THEM that are chasing YOU!
At a blogging conference you are going to find yourself in the driver’s seat.
You’ll have your pick of the letter when it comes to finding these new core partners, you’ll be able to establish connections and relationships with numerous partners to find the right one for you and your vision, and you’ll be able to build upon these new relationships moving forward – using upcoming blogging conferences to submit these relationships into something that can you boost your blog dramatically.
It doesn’t get much better than that!