Blogging For Creatives – Everything You Need To Know To Get Started

Thinking of starting a blog? Want to know what makes one successful? Or, what you should avoid as a blogger? As well as being an accessible way to showcase, promote and talk about your creative work, blogging can be an effective platform for building and reaching a new audience.

In this 2-hour workshop, Emily Benet, a writer and social media trainer, will talk you through the topics you need for running your blog successfully:

• Why Blog?
• The difference between writing online vs writing offline
• The Principles of Social Media
• Choosing a Blog Platform
• Design and Layout Basics
• Elements of a Blog Post
• Choosing and Creating engaging content
• Building Traffic
• Do's & Don'ts of Blogging
• Case Studies of Successful Blogs
• Q&A

This workshop will accommodate a limited number of delegates so please book early to secure your place!

About Emily Benet: Emily is a writer and social media trainer. Her first book Shop Girl Diaries began as a weekly blog, and was commissioned as a book and a short film. The blog was winner of the Completely Novel Author Blog Awards 2010 and has been featured in guidebooks including Blogging for Creatives. Emily has written on the benefits of blogging for several publications including Publishing Talk, Writers & Artists, The New Writer and Mslexia. Her guidebook Blogging for Beginners is available online.