There are many ways you can use a blog to support your demonstrator business, here are ten to get you started:
1. Post materials and resources
The web is a fantastic tool when it comes to distributing resources – all you have to do on your Stampin Corner blog is upload, or copy and paste, your materials to your blog and they’ll be instantly accessible by your family, friends, customers and downline from anywhere on the internet.
2. Host online discussions
If you’ve ever struggled to create an online discussion space – you’re going to love what Stampin Corner will do for you. Your clients and downline can simply respond to blog posts and discuss topics you’ve set for them through comments – commentators can also sign up to receive emails when their comments are replied to and you can easily manage and edit all responses through your blog’s administrative panel.
3. Create a business publication
Every wanted to create a business newspaper for your stamping business? Well, they just got a lot easier with your Stampin Corner blog – you can add downline as contributors, authors and even editors in order to produce a custom designed, finely tuned and engaging collaborative online publication for your stamping organization or group.
4. Replace your newsletter
Always enjoyed photocopying and stapling pages and pages of newsletters on a Friday afternoon? Though not! It’s ridiculously simple to post tutorials, photos, class information, news, events and more on your Stampin Corner blog.
5. Get your downline demonstrators blogging
It’s all very good sending your downline, and even clients, off to blog sites, or even creating them for them, but you need to operate as a hub for their work and a place where they can easily visit each others blogs from. Your Stampin Corner blog can be used to glue together your downlines blogs, and besides which, if you’re asking your downline demonstrators to blog… you should certainly be doing it yourself.
6. Share your thoughts and ideas
Using a Stampin Corner blog can turn planning and reflection on classes into a genuinely productive – and even collaborative – experience. Sharing your plans, your reflections, your ideas and your fears with other demonstrators both in your up/downline and around the world using Stampin Corner blog is a great way to develop as a demonstrator, and a brilliant use of a blog.
7. Integrate multimedia of all descriptions
With a couple of clicks you can embed online video, multimedia presentations, slideshows and more into your Stampin Corner blog and mix it up with your text and static resources. No cds required, no coding necessary – just select the video, podcasts or slidecast you’d like to use and whack it in your blog to illustrate, engage and improve your teaching toolbox.
8. Organize, organize, organize
You don’t only have to use your Stampin Corner blog as a marketing resource… you can equally easily use the tools to organize everything from your next stamp-a-stack, to organizing your friends at the next convention. You can set up as many Stampin Corner blogs as you like, so don’t be afraid to use a dedicated one for a dedicated event – you can even use it as a record to look back on down the line.
9. Get feedback
There’s nothing that says you can’t allow anonymous commenting on a blog (although you’re also entirely within your rights to put all comments through moderation!) but why not think about using a blog as a place for demonstrators – and even customers, to air issues, leave feedback or generally tell you how great you are.
10. Create a fully functional website
One of the great things about Stampin Corner blogs are that they are much, much more than just blogging tools. In fact, you can use your Stampin Corner blog to create a multi-layered, in-depth, multimedia rich website – that hardly looks like a blog at all. So, if you’d rather create a set of static content, archive of important information or even index for your library – you can bend a Stampin Corner blog to suit your needs.
