My services/'products'
Advising/tutoring services
Ebooks
The book!
Distro sales
Plants/Feed Avalon nursery
Design Consultancy services
Workshop facilitation
Photoprints
Courses
Events I'm promoting
Campaigns/projects/struggles I'm promoting/seeking solidarity for
Gaia U recruitment bonus
Marketing Notes
Ways to monetize a blog
Selling services
Affiliate sales
Direct membership
Digital training
Ecommerce (selling a physical product)
Sponsored content
Advertising
Blog flipping (selling the blog on)
Newsletters
Need to be
Useful
Enjoyable content
Occasional sell of your services
Aim for 1000 people on your list
First impression incentive
Ways to increase subscribers
Guest post on other blogs
Add subscriber link in footer of email
Key points
Focus on audience, not on traffic
Unifying theme
Good design & user experience
Who are you writing for? What are their needs?
People know, like and trust you
Explore limiting beliefs
Make a list of what you need & want/desire e.g. desired annual/monthly income, perks, relationships
What is the desired social impact of the business
What is your blogging lifestyle?
Analogs & antilogs (have other people been succesful with this idea)
What is working?
What is not working?
Survey audience
Pay attention to blog engagement
Minimum viable product
How can you help solve people's problems?
Think about scaleability/succession
Products are scaleable
Your time isn't scaleable e.g. consultancy
Processing orders
Shopping cart
Payment processor
Merchant account
Empty Cages Design Edits
Add resources section
Create mailing list
Create facebook page
Create twitter feed
Create instagram link
Add to menu
upcoming events
resources
Widgets
Clearer contact details
Nice pic of me
Add more links/solidarity buttons
Subscribe to newsletters as nicole@emptycagesdesign.org (rather than gmx)
Pages
Wish list
Goals list
Contact Form & PGP
Book
Resource lists
Links
Listly
Content to integrate
All Gaia U material
Growing Resilience course
More photographs/multimedia
Upload CV
Publications in my Field
Permaculture Magazine (incl. online)
Permaculture News
Permaculture Activist
Earth First Journal
Growing Green International
Occupied Times
Rabble
Anarchist News
Permaculture Works
Resistance Ecology
Red Pepper
Plan C Journal
The Ecologist
Academic Publications (Various)
Organise!
Garden Organic
RHS Magazine
Yes! Magazine
New Internationalist
Agricultures/Farming Matters
The Vegan
The Land
Adbusters
Common Dream
Indymedia
Libcom
ZNet
Websites to link off
Veganic.net
Vegan Village
Alternative Bristol
Radical Herbalism
Rhizome Community Herb Clinic
Permaculture teachers EU
learnpermaculture.com
Transition Network
Overview of Dissemination Channels
Website
Instagram
Pinterest
Twitter
Facebook
Webinars
Articles
Own publications
Podcasts
Radio
Events/physical connection
Email lists
All Gaia U Forum
Leaflets
Newsletters
Magazines/journals
Other websites/blogs
Tools
Blogstomp
WP Editorial Calendar Plugin
Hootsuite
WP app on iPhone
System
Min. one blog post per day
Min once a week original content for blog
Blog Mornings between 8-11am
Write list of blogs & FB posts for the week on a Sunday evening
Spend 10mins per day interacting with social media/liking other people's content etc
Update ECD & Feed Avalon facebook twice per day - 10am and 3pm
Send monthly ECD newsletter
Aim for 14 tweets per day, 7 at weekend
Yields
Invites to teach/speak
Sales
New partners/friends
Books to review
Free places on courses
Visitors/support to Brook End
Achieving goals
Why disseminate?
To document history
Acceleration of agroecology & plant based systems
Food Sovereinty movement building
Prison abolition & animal liberation movement building
Generating paid work/opportunities/yields
Esp. in lower input way
New contacts & relationships
Professional satisfaction
Documentation of my own journey
Online portfolio to evidence my authenticity/commitment/ability