Insight LifeCoach Partnership Blogs

Blue Collar Coaching - Help when you need it

Russell Cox

Ning Rings - Credibility and Visibility for your Internet Brand

Every coach needs three things : credibility, visibility, and faster growth for your audience and your clients.

A Ning Ring or joint blog is one of the lowest cost, most effective ways for a coach to establish and promote your Internet brand and in the process you also build credibility and visibility for you and your coaching.

In a Ning Ring you create a small community of 5 to 10 bloggers who all want to write about a topic similar or related to your coaching, for example : a group of publishing coaches ( theauthorsvillage.ning.com ) or future CEO’s ( startupceotraining.ning.com ).

These bloggers agree to create a joint blog ( called a Ning Ring since Ning.com is one of the easiest ways to set this up ). And they agree to a simple rule : each blogger will post one article and make three comments on the other posts each week.

Instant Credibility : As soon as you have four or five members in your Ning Ring with a non-embarrassing photo and well written profiles ( see The Three Most Important Articles ... ) then when any person comes to your blog they will find you in the company of several other experts or commentators in your field, this will give you instant credibility.

Visibility : Even with only five authors the site would have 15 posts a week and if you schedule them properly it is easy to have at least one post a day without any one author having to do a lot of work or writing. A blog site with at least one post per day is one of the most highly valued sites in Google and other search engines. So, within 30 to 60 days of five authors writing one article and posting a few comments each week your joint blog / Ning Ring will be ranked as very relevant and be very visible to anyone looking for it. Making your site visible to people who aren’t looking for it is another topic, but a Ning Ring figures prominently in solving that problem as well.

The credibility and visibility created by a well run Ning Ring allows you to define and promote your Internet brand and creating an effective Internet brand is one of the most important ( and cost effective ) steps to establishing yourself in your marketplace as an expert and valued coach.

For an audio introduction and more example please check out
Community & Business - Web 2.0 Audience

Thanks
Russell Cox
The Author's Village - Ning Ring - Community
Web 2.0 Community & Business - Ning Ring - Community
The Entrepreneur's Village - Ning Ring - Community

Share 

Comment

You need to be a member of Insight LifeCoach Partnership Blogs to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

David Lim Comment by David Lim on November 6, 2008 at 9:32pm
Excellent article.
Biznik-Business Networking
David Lim (MBA, MSW), Coach, Therapist
My Profile - My Website - Our Services

Badge

Loading…

© 2009   Created by Russell Cox on Ning.   Create a Ning Network!

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service