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17 May Composition Techniques that will improve your blog photography with Jeanne Horak-Druiff

This event is all about improving your photography. Today, visual content is so important. Not just on your blog but also on your social media channels. Whether you are a lifestyle, travel, fashion, beauty or food photographer, good images make your blog stand out. Using these great pictures on social media will also get you a lot of follower and friends.

For both beginners and seasoned bloggers alike, this event will include a lot of practical tips and tricks to improve your blog photography. This session is relevant to you if you just use your ssmartphone to take pics or use a DSLR. It’s all in the composition.

How to take beautiful photographs – Top Tips on composing photographs

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Jeanne Horak-Druiff is one of original UK food and travel bloggers. ( She has been blogging over 11 years).  She is a great photographer and regularly teaches workshops to bloggers. She did a sold-out session at Traverse, the travel bloggers’ conference last year.

Photo Composition Tips

In this session

  • she will be walking us through her top tips on photography composition.
  • having a signature style
  • How to get the best shots when you are travelling or even when you are styling food or even doing some creative flat lays.
  • How to make money from your photography.
  • Q&A where you can ask Jeanne any questions about photography, food and travel blogging. There is a lot of experience to learn from here.

You can find out more and connect with Jeanne here:

https://twitter.com/cooksisterblog
https://instagram.com/cooksister

Meetup Details and Buy Tickets

Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Tickets: £15




Venue: 

Cocoon Networks – The Beijing Room (downstairs) 

4 Christopher St, London EC2A 2BS

Time: 6.30pm.

Nearest tube: Moorgate, Liverpool Street or Old Street

Agenda

6.30pm – Registration and networking

7.00pm – Presentation and Q&A

8.00pm – Networking Drinks

Hashtag: #LadiesBlogging

Networking Events

How to Pitch to PRs – Insider Secrets an Top Practical Tips

We are kicking off January with a topic that is much discussed, How to pitch to PRs.

If you are looking to work as a blogger either part time or full time, you will need to start working with brands. Most of the time, this involves pitching PRs with ways that you can work together.

Rather than waiting to be approached to do random sponsored posts on your blog, you can take a more proactive approach by targeting brands you want to work with.

Of course there are right and wrong ways to do this.

This month, our speaker Megan Hallinan will walk us through:

  • How to pitch
  • When to pitch
  • The essentials of following up
  • Handling rejection
  • Increasing your success rates
  • …and some insider secrets

Megan wears both hats, as a blogger as well as a PR, so she has seen both sides. She is in a great position to tell you of her experiences of from both view points. She has a lot of stories to share about the pitches she has received and what was right or wrong about them.

More About Megan Hallinan

Megan Hallinan

Megan has 10 years of experience in the PR industry, working across a variety of sectors from finance, to technology, to food, both in-house and in-agency. She now heads up the PR & Social arm of digital marketing agency MBA, looking after clients such as Sage Appliances by Heston Blumenthal, Comté Cheese and Riviera Travel. Alongside her job in PR, she also runs her own food blog at www.gottobegourmet.com.

Meetup Details and Buy Tickets

Date: Wednesday, 18 Jan 2017

Tickets: £15


Venue: Alion Clerkenwell (Big room in basement)

Unit 1, The Turnmill,
63 Clerkenwell Road,
London EC1M 5NP

 

Agenda

6.30pm – Registration and networking

7.00pm – Presentation and Q&A

8.00pm – Networking Drinks

Hashtag: #LadiesBlogging

 

Blogging

Giveaway: Million Dollar Blog Book by Natasha Courtenay Smith

Million Dollar Blog A book review

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Natasha Courtenay Smith, a former journalist, is a blogging mentor to many people including some celebrities in the UK. She has helped them build a brand online and helped other bloggers with strategies to monetise their blog.

In this book, she has interviews with some of the top names in the world of blogging including, Seth Godin, Grace Bonney, Grant Cardone, Chris Brogan, Guido Fawkes, Heather Armstrong, Madeleine Shaw and Lily Pebbles.

I especially liked reading the inspiring interviews with the bloggers and seeing how everyone has a different approach to content and brand building. One thing every blogger agreed on was authenticity. Your readers will be able to tell when you are not being yourself.

There are a lot of nuggets of great information and practical advice to be learnt from this book, regardless of where you are with your blogging. Will this book make you rich? It might, but you will have to read it and apply the lessons.

Meet Natasha

Natasha is our guest speaker on 2 Nov where she will talk about these topics covered in the book, join us then. You’ll get to meet her and pick her brains.

Win the Book

To win this book, just follow the instructions on the rafflecopter app. You can come back daily to add more points and increase your chance to win.

Open to UK residents only.

Closing date: 2 November.
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Networking Events

2 Nov – Natasha Courtenay Smith on Blog Stardom

Achieving Blog Stardom

Are you a Blogstar or would you like to be one?

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Natasha Courtenay-Smith is a blogger, an entrepreneur and soon to be published author of the intriguing book, Million Dollar Blog. She is also an online PR specialist and has helped a lot of people Her clients include TV presenters, blog stars, private health care businesses, festivals, charities and small business owners.

Natasha will share with us some strategies on how to tackle the issues that all bloggers want answers to:

  • How do you stand out?
  • How do you blog your way from nobody to somebody?
  • How do you use the right content to build your brand and drive your blog success?

Her new book Million Dollar Blog is about How to build a blog that makes money. It will be launched on 29 September and is available to preorder now.


You learn more about Natasha here.

Meetup Details

Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Venue:

Alion Clerkenwell (Big room in basement)

Unit 1, The Turnmill,
63 Clerkenwell Road,
London EC1M 5NP

Tickets: £15

 




 

 

Agenda

6.30pm – Registration and networking

7.00pm – Presentation and Q&A

8.00pm – Networking Drinks

Hashtag: #LadiesBlogging

Workshops

Blog Traffic and Practical SEO for Bloggers- One Day Workshop

NEXT WORKSHOP: 3 JUNE 2017

Blog Traffic and SEo for bloggers

Blog Traffic Growth Hack and SEO is one of the most requested topics at Ladies in Blogging. If you blog, you need to understand and use SEO to get better and more targetted traffic. You will also need to know some killer growth hacking techniques to grow your social media channels and emails lists. This workshop will introduce you to some great tools that can automate a lot of what you need to do to keep everything ticking over.

This will be a full day practical workshop with a lot of takeaways that you can apply to your blogs.

What this Growth Hacking workshop will cover

  • How to increase your blog traffic
  • Different sources of traffic for your blog
  • Introduction to SEO
  • What is new in SEO in 2016
  • Essential tools for SEO
  • How to do competitive research
  • How to do keyword research
  • SEO friendly content planning
  • Follow / No follow tags
  • Duplicate content issues
  • Using Social Media for SEO

…and much more.

Who is this for?

Bloggers who want to increase their blog traffic and to  learn more about SEO and how to apply it on their blogs.

Small business owners who want to do their own social media and SEO.

This is suitable for beginners or intermediate bloggers. You don’t need to have any prior knowledge. You will need to have a Google Analytics account set up to see your own stats.

Date: Saturday 3 June, from 10am to 5pm

Venue: Central London. You will be sent details by email when you sign up.

Tickets: £120 per person or £180 for two. Includes teas, coffees and lunch.

There are limited spaces, so please book early.

Note: Discounted tickets if you book to come with a friend £180 instead of £240 (25% Discount)

 

Early Bird Option (limited tickets)

 


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