You’ve heard me rant about networking effectively, and connecting with other probloggers, but what about building a blogging alliance? A group of bloggers from a variety of niches, and myself have formed a blogging alliance. What we’ve done within this blogging alliance is helped each other grow to levels we would not have been able to grow to without each others help. We’ve also had rants where we’ve debated about blogging topics and shared our insight about it, gave constructive critiques about each others blogs, joint ventures have been formed and a lot more.
I’ve shared with you some of the things I’ve done with my blogging alliance, but the possibilities of your blogging alliance are never-ending. I’m going to share with you today how to build a powerful blogging alliance that will drive your blog to the next level.
How to Build a Powerful Blogging Alliance
Interact with others
A strong blogging alliance is very interactive with each other. If you want to build a strong alliance, start interacting with people in your niche and start building valuable relationships. Start connecting with others on Twitter, interact with your community, join webinars or even start your own broadcasts.
Connect with your “future” alliance
Interacting with what’s going to become your blogging alliance is only half the battle. Start connecting with your alliance on a more personal level. Grab their Skype and Facebook names and start building your relationship more closer. Don’t get me wrong, interacting on Twitter and through blog comments is a great thing to do, and I believe those are the first steps to building a relationship. However, after you have covered that ground and broken the ice, throw your rod in and start pulling out the fish.
Build your alliance
No more lolly gagging. You’ve met your team, so make it official. Find an area that you are able to connect with your alliance on, in a social way. I recommend using Skype.
Why your alliance should use Skype
- Allows voice calling with groups of people
- No limit to the # of people in your chat
- Great moderation tools
- File sharing
- Screen sharing
- It’s free
Establish your alliance
Your alliance needs to have trust and a foundation around it. Our alliance is built firmly on helping each others progress to the next level. What’s yours going to be? Don’t focus on growing an alliance, if the alliance you already have isn’t established. Branch of and build your alliance when it’s ready to grow.
Group Discussion
What’s your thoughts on this? Have you ever wondered about building a blogging alliance? Building a blogging alliance is a great way to take your relationships with others to the next level, and help expand yourself as a blogger.
Join our alliance
Are you a blogger looking to connect with other like-minded bloggers? Do you have Skype and you want to become part of a strong established alliance? Hit me up on Twitter (@Robswebtips), or leave a comment and you can join us ;D
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Rob,
By far, this is probably the best blog post I’ve read. I never thought about officially building an alliance with a team. I have various connections in my niche but never thought about bringing every body together to help build each other’ blog.
I think this would be an incredible way to push everybody’s blog to the next level and as mentioned, expand like minded relationships.
Do you think that an alliance should be formed around bloggers within your niche or is it just bloggers in general?
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I believe it should be formed with people who are like-minded folks such as yourself. For example, in our blogging alliance we have people that run college blogs and people who run blogs about gardening, we also have undefined bloggers.The fact is, we are geared towards helping each other. A blogging alliance doesn’t have to be formed only around people in ONE specific niche, however do not make it to diverse.
Wow! That was extremely strange. I got 3 new posts in my feed all with the same title but from different blogs. Now I see that you are all working together. Networking and building alliances is a great idea, and by the other two bloggers it seems you have quite a strong team.
Tom | Build That List´s last blog . . .Do I Need My Own Product Before I Start List Building?
Thanks Tom
that was our plan, to all create articles with the same title, but with different content. We never even showed each other the articles until today to make sure it was unique 
I believe i will hit you up soon
you, seth and alex are doing a great job at blogussion. Keep going mate! cheers
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Feel free to hit me up anytime
we’d love to have you.
You need to read Alex’s latest post.
Dennis Edell´s last blog . . .Here We Go! Theme Construction Part 1 – Your Participation Is Wanted-Needed!
Need to spend time in this, never tried to build or organize a community that way. Thanks for this useful tutorial.
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Be sure to let me know how you like it ;D
Brilliant idea. Thanks for the Skype tip too — it’s a good tool for this and it never would have occurred to me.
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Skype is a great tool Johnny, I’ve been using it for about 3-4 years now and I love it.
Thanks!
I have never thought about building relationship this way.
It’s a great way to build relationships and I’d definitely recommend you try it out.
A blogging alliance is just like having a mastermind group in the business world. It’s a very powerful thing and it makes you learn a whole lot, get help when needed, network, get business partnerships and joint ventures, and it helps you in promoting your blog.
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Right on the dot Shirley. This has been my first time in a blogging alliance, and it has been a wonderful journey
Wow my teachers are getting younger.
My main mentor is 30 and thank God for him and now 15.
Anyway I’m 54, 2 days ago and have had to reinvent myself
online over the last years. I’m doing quite well but need to get to the next level.
More “0′s” every month on my commissions.
I am interested in a blogging alliance Rob.
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Glad to here it Nicholas! If you want to be apart of ours, just let me know
we’d love to have you.
As long as everyone keeps their ego in check…
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Hey this sounds great! Either you’re psychic or you’ve been peeking into my brain, I’ve been working on finding a regular group of people who are interested in working with me, just this very day.
I’m glad to hear you’ve got a variety of niches included in your “alliance” because I’d love to be a part of it. Where do I sign up again? Is my Christian blog niche, too diverse?
Kiesha @ Highly Favored´s last blog . . .Be a blessing – give your best
Of course not Kiesha, we allow anyone who wants to join
we have people who just want to learn about blogging, join us. Do you have Skype? Because that’s all you need.
Yes, I have Skype. Sounds fun.
On a different subject: I’m just curious, are you in an alliance with Jordon Cooper from “Not a Pro” or is he doing a parody of today’s blog post. Or is it just a big coincidence that you booth have posts with the same title today?
His post:
http://notaproblog.com/promotion-community/how-to-build-powerful-blogging-alliance/
Kiesha @ Highly Favored´s last blog . . .Be a blessing – give your best
Yea me and Jordan are in an alliance together. Add me on Skype “yuiop_rob1″ and I’ll add you in the alliance
Oh, okay! That guy is hilarious!
Kiesha @ Highly Favored´s last blog . . .Be a blessing – give your best
Rob, you make it sound like we’re the Justice League or something… a mastermind group is probably a more qualified name for it. It’s simply a group of like-minded bloggers (regardless of niche) that use Skype conference call to help each other, criticize our work and discuss strategies about blogging & marketing more effectively.
Jordan Cooper´s last blog . . .How To Build A Powerful Blogging Alliance
You meant to say, critique, right? lol
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I have never thought about doing this in this way. However, now that you mention it, i do see you guys doing this and it is obviously working. I will most def message you on twitter to join.
Thanks Man
-Social Media Guy
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Sweet! I look forward to your message, we’re eager to have you join!
great post. this is new to me. never heard of such strategy, mind u im kinda new.
i would like to join this alliance of yours, if possible lol
Awesome! Do you have a skype account? If so, what’s your screen name?
This article has given me a lot to think about. Forming an alliance with other bloggers is a great ideas. I meet on a conference call with a group of people building web sites once a week. I am going to give them the link to this article. I hope it will help us get more focused.
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Sweet Melva, let me know if you form an alliance (highly recommend it) let me know how it works out for you?
Hey Rob! You’re 15? I love you. It’s funny, I had this idea around two weeks ago to create an online portal for bloggers to write and share information. Then two days ago found blogussion.com and I was blown away by how intuitive and beautiful the site was! It inspired me to create a like-minded theme for my existing idea. (check website link for a preview of it!) I just created it yesterday so no navigation works and formatting is still in progress yet but I’m excited to start it!
I’m 25, and I’d absolutely love to join you guys in your quest of sharing blogging information! How can I help? =]
Hey Josh, thanks for the love I appreciate it! Haha, and if you want to join the bloggers alliance just shoot me over your skype user-name and I’ll add you.
Collaboration is always the best way to go. In my own life I have seen more success approaching tasks and objectives within a team with a focused and shared vision.
Thanks for sharing Rob.
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No problem Sam, and you’re totally right. I was never a partner person at first because a lot of my partnerships failed. But now, I’m really starting to enjoy partnerships that are beneficial.
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