Marketing and Blogging Tips I Learned at the Akron Bloggers Community Meetings

Ivana and Deborah with their Tags

Last month at the Akron Bloggers Community meeting Deborah Shapiro explained about marketing with tags. 

Maybe you’ve heard or seen them?  Seems like a great tool for a business to drive traffic to a specific URL link. I know they are all the rage in Japan.

Here’s one way how tags can work to market your business: Deborah Shapiro from Montrose Video has her tag printed on the back of her business card. She passes out the business card at a trade show. People with the app on their cell phone hover over the tag. It takes them to a website on their phone.

How Tags work with the Phone

Here’s a photo of Ivana Taylor with her cell phone hovering over tag on the computer screen. She opens the app on her phone (that she downloaded from GetTag.mobi) and uses her cell phone to “look” at the tag. Then the cell phone immediately moves to a website page… like a video or a photo or even a map to give you directions to get there.

You can have the tag on a sign, a business card, your tradeshow booth, etc. Downside: only on iPhones, not Blackberry or Droid yet. This is just one of the things I learned at the ABC group… but there are many things:

Some of the things I’ve Learned from the Akron Bloggers Community

1. Blogging doesn’t have to be a solo activity.
2. Getting together with a group of like minded individuals helps me focus my thoughts and develop my projects faster, better and with much more fun.
3. Everyone has an “off” day, but repetition, doing something every day, or every week has a pay off. Like the saying “Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
4. Things keep changing and NO one knows it all… I learn just as much from the new members as the experienced members!
5. The biggest challenge of blogging is the technology and getting together with a group helps to minimize the frustration!

Thought from other Akron Bloggers Community members

• Deborah Shapiro of Montrose Video: 5 things I’ve learned from the Akron Bloggers Community
• Deborah Chaddock Brown, of Ohio Web Writer: Akron Bloggers Community – A Great Place to Learn
• Maria Santaferro of Maria Media: 5 things I learned from the Akron Bloggers Community
• Norma Rist of Boardroom Groups 4 Women:  Blogging Info at Mocha Joes
• Jennifer Cox of National Network of Embroydery Professionals: ABC: Beyond what you know

Note to the ABC group: I’ll keep updating this post with your article as you post it. Let everyone know by posting your link on our LinkedIn group under the discussion called “5 things I learned…