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BlogPaws 2013 Is Over... Now What?

Guest post by Blog Manager Robbi Hess

For everyone who attended BlogPaws, I imagine it was a whirlwind of networking, knowledge-filled sessions from great speakes, meeting new friends, reconnecting with old friends and pawtying until all hours! But now you're back home, the luggage is unpacked, the swag is being distributed to your furiends and you have a stack of business cards in your hand. What do you do now? 

Here are my best tips for making the most of those connections, keeping in touch and building on the momentum started by your attendance at BlogPaws 2013: 

• Follow up. If you received a business card, send an email as a quick way to touch base. Use the subject line to remind them where you met. If you remember what you'd talked about, bring that up in the email. If you have a product or service to sell, don't do that in your initial email... use that first email contact as a way to build the relationship. 

How to Get More Blog Traffic with Email Marketing

If you blog, what is one thing you forever wish for and we all could really use on a regular basis? Readers, right?

Crystal Gouldey of Perkasie (about an hour from Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, knows a thing or two about how to get more readers. Through the magic of email marketing, she will be showing folks at BlogPaws how this tool can work in their favor as well.

Here's what Crystal shared with BlogPaws in advance of her session at BlogPaws' sold out conference:

Harnessing The Power of SEO For Your Local Pet Blogging Efforts

It may seem like a no-brainer -- if you're writing a blog post about a local event or shelter in your area, you'd put in the location, right? As Pam Foster, owner of PetCopywriter.com and Managing Editor of Content & Communications at LifeLearn, Inc. points out in this blog post, it is a critical SEO step that many bloggers miss.

You can learn from Pam's and hear about her speciality: optimizing blogs to attract more readers via search engines, blending helpful or entertaining blog posts with strategic keyword use throughout... leading to more readers at BlogPaws 2013. It's right around the corner! 

Here is a great post from Pam on ways to optimize your local pet blogging efforts. 

Want to Take Your Blog Product Reviews to the Next Level?

Leveraging product peviews to build Positive relationships with brands is no easy task. Knowing how to do a professional product review amidst the pressures of regulations, compensation, and link building from both bloggers and brands are making relationship building more and more difficult.

This year's BlogPaws Conference taking place May 16 through May 18 in Tysons Corner, Virginia, will be home to The Professional Product Review Pro Level session. Finding the right partners for your blog and fostering those relationships in a positive and professional way are key factors in taking your blog, ultimately your personal brand, to the next level. This session will explore all the right moves you should make to create relationships that will not only last but that will help you land bigger opportunities. Here's the scoop with the panelists and moderator of this must-see session:

Pet Blogger Keys to Unlock Social Media Marketing

The key to social media marketing: Ah, if we all had one how much easier would life be? Kimanzi Constable knows, and he is gracing the BlogPaws Conference with his session on unlocking that social media door. More specifically, he’ll be speaking about “Active and Present: The Keys to Social Media Marketing. “

Here’s our exclusive interview with Kimanzi and what you can expect in this Pro Level session, although anyone with a keen interest in getting ahead of the social media ever-changing landscape will benefit: