Attention Bloggers! We want to make your Holiday shopping a little easier so …we are giving away a $50 RBC Visa gift card to one lucky Blog PR Wire member on December 15th 2011!
There’s lots of ways to enter and you can enter each day between now and December 15th 2011.
* The winner can activate the card for online shopping if they don’t want to wait for the card to arrive by mail.
Open to bloggers in North America, the UK, and European Union. You must have a valid blog. We will check ;)
Most of the bloggers at BlogPrWire consider themselves a professional blogger.
However, being a professional blogger is more then just writing on a blog platform. It’s knowing your industry (Internet Publishing) and meeting industry standards. So if you find yourself answering yes to any of the following , it is time to make some changes;
1. You don’t own your own domain name. You can get your own domain name at Go Daddy for just $7.49 using a coupon. Every large brand, PR rep, and business knows this, so if you are using a sub domain like .blogspot.com you are missing out on opportunities and havn’t made the professional blogger cut yet ;)
2. Your blog is not branded. It’s not hard to make a logo. Select a font to provide consistency and a VECTOR image (which can be purchase at Dreamstime.com for less than five dollars). Start with a HIGH RESOLUTION (300 dpi) that can be sized down. Don’t know what we are talking about – consider getting help from Fivverr.com
3. Your blog design (CSS STYLES) stinks. i.e. highlighted every where – dark backgrounds light text. There are design standards for a reason ;) Not sure if yours stinks? Create a poll for free and ask all your tweeples and Facebook friends to anonymously provide their real opinions.
4. Your images are blurry or look like 1989 clip art. Stock art is not that expensive for blog usage and your caera phone probably takes half decent images, that when sized down properly to an average 200 by 200 pixels will look crisp on a browser so there’s no excuse for blurry bad images on your blog.
5. Speaking of images… Your blog either doesn’t have a professional looking profile headshot or it is more then one year old. Easy to solve – snap some on your cell phone and head over to fivverr.com to get someone to ‘airbrush’ you for just $5.00.
Don’t believe me? Head over to Mom Crunch and read Five ways you look digitally unprofessional
