COMMUNITY

I admit it: I'm a user-group junkie. I got my first taste of user groups when I worked for Apple-speaking at their meetings was one of my great pleasures. Their members were unpaid, raging, inexorable thunderlizard evangelists for Macintosh and Apple II. These folks sustained Apple by supporting its customers when Apple couldn't-or didn't want to-support them itself.

19 Content Marketing Experts Offer Their Best Advice Have you ever wondered what the best piece of content marketing advice is? Where do you need to focus your marketing efforts versus what's just nice to have? Now that content marketing is the hot marketing buzzword, what are the critical elements your content needs to rise above the noise to drive measurable business results?

Do you ever feel - as you blog - like you're talking to an empty room? Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by.... If that is how you feel - then you're not alone.

This week on ProBlogger we've been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.