Many of you are probably wondering, what is Club-Content exactly?
In a nutshell, Club-Content is a place where a team of bloggers want to focus on rich content for their blogs through entering writing exercises and contests for feedback and cash prizes, while gaining traffic.
Club-Content is not a social network. It is a specifically designed system of cooperation among its members to elevate the performance and content of their blogs, to get the most out of their blogging experience.
The most challenging part of blogging is having readers. Readers are not easy to come by. You have to be creating knock out posts all of the time, and you have to be remembered by your readers for them to return, and tell others about you.
Hearing those crickets chirping after pouring your heart into a post is the worst, right? Even though you might have a strong reciprocating network of fellow Bloggers, wouldn't it be nice to know that what you are writing is really getting through, and your readers aren't just being courteous?
Of course, you wouldn't be able to go without that reciprocating courtesy. It is so welcomed, and essential to growing your audience, but at the same time, to reach a broader audience, you need to be working on improving your content if you are serious about blogging.
This is where Club-Content's writing contests and exercises can work for you. Entering a contest for rewards or a cash prize, puts you at the top of your game. It makes what you are writing much more important, and your efforts are greater. It's a real motivator for performance.
Then, your entry will be rated by your peers. They are doing this anonymously, so that no feelings get hurt, and everyone gets true results. The contest results let everyone participating know what readers genuinely like, because they are not just being nice, like in a comment on your blog.
The other great part about the contest system, as that it generates traffic. Members who submit an entry get to have everyone coming to their blogs to read.
Even if you don't enter a Contest, as a Club-Content member, you'll be able to see the results, and have so many examples of high performance content to draw from to create your own posts.
When Christina of Spilled Milkshake and I talked about how there are so many free mom networking sites out there, and why would you pay to be a part of ours, we knew this would be the tough part to sell. But, all of these great efforts that will go into our writing contests have to be protected somehow, and make everyone participating feel a commitment to each other. If you buy something, it's much more important than if it's free, and you want to know that the person next to you on your team is also just as dedicated as you are.
Club-Content members are in it together. Just like how Triberr says there is strength in numbers, you need vested team members for successful blogging. Going it alone is just too difficult, and you won't get very far. Plus, you don't want a team member who drops out on you, when you are working so hard.
Think about what you pay for daily or monthly and what those things are worth to you? You might buy Starbucks coffee, a haircut, soap, deodorant, a McDonald's combo meal, a new purse, a pair of shoes, a gallon of ice cream, a pizza, makeup, razor blades, a trip to the movies, a movie rental, a Netflix subscription. All of these are a lot more than $5/year.
So, ask yourself what your blog is worth to you? If you think your blog is valuable, or would like for it to improve and grow, then Club-Content is your team!
We will only get stronger with numbers too!
~Courtney


19 comments:
Great post! Sounds like you explained it all pretty well :)
I'm seriously looking forward to our first contest this week!
I could enter mine!;)
I'm excited too!!
Stopping in from Voiceboks. Enjoy your contest!
Great idea. I look forward to reading the blogs!
Interesting info. Will have to check into it. :)
Jen, Margs and Sarah, it would be great to see you there!
This really is a great and unique idea!
I give you and Christina so much credit for trying something new! I know you will be so successful!! How could it miss with you three on board!! Much love and luck!!
Ladies!
Thank you for participating in the blog hop! Wishing you much success in your bloggy endeavors! New follower:)
Kelly
www.livelaughrowe.com
I am so very proud of what you are doing here and to be a member in on the ground floor. Onwards and upwards.
Jacqueline, that means the world to me for saying that! I can't thank you enough!
Courtney
This is such an AWESOME idea! You really got me thinking.
Thank you so much for creating this community! I'm so excited to be a part of it! I really hope it's going to help me with my creative writing skills!
Wow, so enterprising of you! I love the idea of helping other bloggers learn what really makes a good post.
Wow, so enterprising of you! I love the idea of helping other bloggers learn what really makes a good post.
You guys are so brilliant, and I promise I will be signing up soon!
I totally support this!
Sharon
Ladies, I'm so proud of you and so very intrigued by this idea. I really want to push the button and say yes, sign me up. I'm simply worried about the time commitment. If I'm going to pay for something like this, I want to know I'm fully participating in it. How does it work? Do you give a writing prompt and everyone has to write about the same subject? How often are the contests running?
Thanks!!
~Rosann
Rosann,
Entering contests is not mandatory, but members are committed to reading contest entries when we run them. Eventually, we'd like to run contests every week, but for now we will run them as they get filled starting out. The new Test Your Post feature lets members run posts for free though, so this is more like to happen more. We designate Sundays or Thursdays to contests.
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