Living the Heart's Desire: Art, Video, & Healing for Spiritual Awakening

For those of you who didn’t see the post Announcing First Thursday Events – Share Your Best Blog Post, once a month (on the First Thursday of the month) I am hosting a day when you are free to list a link to your best blog post in the comments. I did this once before in the Sharing the Spotlight Day-List Your Blog Post Here post last August and it was a lot of fun. It’s your chance to get your blog in front of a new audience, get a link back to your blog (always good for SEO), and have a chance to connect with other bloggers and have a little fun. And I get all of that and more traffic to my site. Good for us both. Consider it sort of a mini, nontraditional Blog Carnival you can join each month.

So list a link to one of your best blog post in the comments below. I use the CommentLuv plug-in so you automatically get a link to your most recent blog post if you check the box, and if you list another you get 2 for the price of 1. And who can resist a 2 for 1 sale, especially when the price is free!

Please pass the word to your fellow bloggers! All are welcome (but nothing x rated – let’s keep it family friendly) I look forward to reading your posts. Come back tomorrow and see what other people have posted.

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I live in a town that has what it calls a “First Friday Art Walk.” Being a town with many art galleries and restaurants that display local art, on the First Friday of each month all the galleries and restaurants have an open house. New artwork is displayed, there is often live music, wine and cheese, a general party atmosphere where some of the best art in town is newly displayed for the residents and tourists to view. I know other towns also have “First Friday” events where merchants put on their best displays and invite customers in with specials and food and drink.

Last August I had a post called Sharing the Spotlight Day-List Your Blog Post Here. I invited anyone who wanted to post a link to a recent blog post to do so. It was great fun and I liked the idea so much that I decided to make it a monthly event. So starting  October 7, I will host a “First Thursday – Share Your Best Blog Post” event. (Why First Thursday, not First Friday? Well, I usually post on Monday and Thursday, and not Friday, just works better for me).

I invite you to visit my blog that day, October 7, and list a link to one of your best blog posts in the comments. You may want to create something special for the occasion, or list one of your older posts that you consider really good. You choose the topic. Consider it a chance to guest post on my site.

I use the CommentLuv plug-in (highly recommended for all WordPress blogs!) which automatically gives you a link back to your most recent blog post. So you’ll get the chance to have 2 links to your blog (always good for SEO), a chance to get your work in front of a new audience, the chance to connect with other bloggers, and just the chance to have some fun reading what others have listed. And I get all that and lots of traffic!

Let me send you much gratitude in advance. I’m looking forward to your listings.

So mark you calendar and plan your post. See you Thursday, October 7!

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Today I want to introduce you to The Unified Tribe. When I first decided I needed a blog, I was amazed to find there was a world of bloggers on the web making substantial amounts of money from their blogs, and more surprisingly many of the leaders in the field were quite young (at least to this 50 something baby boomer). There was a theme to the style of these blogs. Give your readers valuable free content, establish a relationship with them. Be transparent, let them see you as a person without any hype. This is a very heart centered way of doing business and I was delighted to find it.

My first exposure to it was through Third Tribe Marketing and while they are not the subject of this post, I would encourage you to explore what they have to offer. Recently I discovered The Unified Tribe, started by Katie Freiling. She has hit on a wonderful idea of creating a place where bloggers could syndicate their work through social media and assist each other in marketing, branding themselves around the things they are most passionate about. In a nutshell, when you join this membership site, you post your blog posts to the group and ask them to promote them through Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon. You in turn share their posts (the ones you like and feel in alignment with) through these social media sites. There are also weekly webinars, all recorded and available for later viewing as well as a host of other videos on using social media.

What a brilliant idea! In the few weeks I have been a member I have found my site statistics up 30% or more, and made contact with a number of other bloggers who I feel a personal and professional connection with. Most of the members I have interacted with are high energy, successful people with a positive vision and genuine desire to contribute to life through their work. Many also seem to be on a spiritual path and certainly aligned with my desire to serve.

What I do find lacking are other artists. There are a few, but I know many other artists on Facebook who have blogs and whose businesses I would love to promote, and I invite any and all of you to check out The Unified Tribe and see if it is something you think would be of benefit to your business.

While there are some life coaches in the tribe, I know there are many more of you out there whose work I would love to promote; the same with healers and alternative health care providers. And what about you writers and book authors who are trying to use social media to promote your work?  Really anyone with an online business and blog, who is using social media to promote their work could benefit greatly from joining this Tribe. And the more of us there are in the tribe, the more we get support and can support others. Katie has set up a very simple system of listing your posts and posting other people’s work to the 4 social media sites (Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon) she has chosen to use.

There is also a forum where you can actively participate with other members and post information, ideas and comments. I’m generally not a “forum person”, but I have been using this one and benefiting from the connections there.

I would encourage any of you bloggers who want to increase traffic to your site, grow your presence in social media sites, and do it all with integrity and a heart centered approach, to see for yourself if this is a marketing tool that is right for you. I look forward to seeing more artists, spiritually based life coaches, healers and others with a deep commitment to service and spiritual awakening joining the The Unified Tribe.

Please take a few minutes to view Katie’s introduction. (Yes, she’s young and VERY enthusiastic, but don’t hold that against her. She may be over the top in “perkiness” but she’s got brains. I’ve been researching social media marketing for some months now and have found no other system that has so much to offer.) I hope to see your posts in the unified feed soon. I have found it quite natural to promote other artists through my Facebook page and now have found a new way of promoting and being promoted. Please come join me!

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

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