Guests On Your Blog

Why should you open your blog up for guests to posts about their business? I mean this is your special place on the web, your acreage of cyberspace. The idea of giving that up for someone else to do their bidding is entirely foreign. Didn't I open this page to run my big mouth about whatever happens to be on my mind today?
That was how I looked at when I first considered blogging. Thankfully, I didn't follow through at the time. Now it's about sharing the journey I'm taking as an indie author. Hopefully my fellow authors can use something I've experienced to make their road a little easier.
It is actually more productive to be the guest on a blog than the host. That allows you to reach a whole new audience and advertise the fact that you blog, write books, create fabulous paintings or whatever you do. Although there are benefits being a host.
First, it's a post for your blog that you didn't have to coerce your own genius to invent. Someone else has books or paintings and by hosting the artist, you get to spread the ink all over your site.
You also have the opportunity of making friends with a fellow artist. Not only that you may actually help this colleague's career by sharing your audience. My impression is that we're all in this together so why not support each other in any way we can. Still not enough?
There will also be an influx of new readers visiting your blog who want to read about your guest. What artist do you know who doesn't have a blog? Now these readers are on your site, and they know where it is. Some of them may even remember your name the next time they see it. Beat that!
As you find yourself promoting your business on the web, you will surely want to be a guest on other blogs. In the eyes of your potential hosts, it won't hurt to have a record of being a good host for others.
That said, I'd like to invite you to join me next time when my special guest will be the incredible Miri Castor, indie author of the sci-fi fantasy Opal Charm - The Path To Dawn. It has been so much fun working with Miri. I am really pleased to share my little slice of web-space with her, and I'm extremely proud to present her to you on September 16th.

Thanks for stopping in
Jonra Springs