It’s Blog Con time and the top bloggers from across the nation have gathered at the Freedomworks sponsored event.  KCC is excited to learn from advanced and beginner bloggers alike as we exchange ideas here in our nations capitol.

Top blogger and Freedomworks  Media Director, Tabitha Hale (Twitter @pinkelephantpun) has put together an event that preceeds another Freedomworks sponsored event, the 9/12 March on Washington.

Another top blogger and the lady who assisted Ms. Hale in putting together the event is Melissa Clothier (@MelissaTweets on Twitter).  Clothier, like most of us, has a full-time job in another industry, yet she and most bloggers stay on top of stories that the lamestream media cannot (or won’t) cover.

John Hawkins, the top blogger in NC (www.rightwingnews.com)  is speaking about how he got started.  He has three to four blogs and has 14k readers per day on each one.  To do that he has to have 8-14 posts per day.  He now runs a group blog.

He recommends that people start out with a nitch.  People will go to you for that nitch.  Being talented and persistent is not enough but you must be talented and persistent.

Three other factors

1.  Know what you want to do.

If you don’t know, it’s hard to do it. John wanted to be a professional blogger which he now is.

2. Network.

It helps to know people.  It helps to get people to link to you.

3. Money

It’s very hard to make money at this.

John’s other tips:

Namecalling

It’s bad. Really bad

Lawsuits

They’ll come at you.  He got blackballed at the 2008 Republican National Convention because he said mean things about John McCain and the RNC.

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit

Be responsible with facts.

Promote your work if you want to be successful.

Send tips to reporters and it will give you good traffic.  Send your work to someone and if they don’t use it, don’t take it personally.

Mary Katharine Ham

Has lived in DC for six years now but does not suggest it for any blogger.  The best thing for bloggers is if you do not live here. In DC there are 1000 dogs running after the same car tire. (i.e. everyone goes after the same story)

Ham likes it that we bloggers are out in states making the news, not stacked up on top of one another in Washington.  She used the example of Congressional candidate Renee Ellmers and Bob “Who Are You” Etheridge.

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