I asked her to keep us posted here to let us know how it went along the way.

If you missed her other posts, you can catch up here:

• Beginning of Blog Tour Build Relationships via Your Own Blog Tour
• Update: Blog Tour Case Study

And, this is her final update, now that she's done.

Whew, it has been a very exciting Summer and beginning of Fall.

Now that the blog tour has been completed, I wanted to give you and update and share my results.

In a nutshell:

This was an incredible experience and some fantastic things have come about as a direct result of my participation in a blog tour. I could not have accomplished what I did, were it not for Nicole's incredible Blog World Tour Planner.

Nicole, thank you for the inspiration and for the opportunity to share with your readers. I'd like to list some of the incredible things that have come about as a result of my participation in this blog tour.

Since the launch of my blog tour in mid-June I have:

– Learned how to set up and participate in a blog tour as a guest blogger and a host of guest bloggers

– Teamed up with several of my participants for what will become a seasonal blog tour journey

– Interviewed each of my guest bloggers and featured them on my Web radio show

– Set up a site to feature each season, moving forward. My publisher has asked me to create a book series from this content! ConversationsAboutMarketing.com

– Received book reviews from several of my guest bloggers!

– Learned how to set up and monitor Google Analytics

– Discovered a formula for driving new traffic to my site and having that traffic and my subscribers increase significantly, each week

– Have had thousands of new visitors to my sites

– Have added over 150 new subscribers to my list

– Had a lot of fun, met some amazing people, grown my list and increased my income and my opportunities

Thank you SO much Nicole, for your encouragement as well as for putting together such a valuable guide to guest blogging!

With much appreciation,
D'vorah Lansky

Speaking of missing really cool things —
Be sure to sign up for my update list at EasyPLR.com so you don't miss any new PLR – it oftentimes sells out quickly. (If you don't know about PLR yet, it's one of the secrets that successful business owners use so they can work less and profit more.)

ok. Back to my guest blogger. My friend, D'vorah, bought my Blog World Tour Guide. While I recommend those who buy the guide start guest blogging on a small scale (if they're intimidated), she bit the bullet and decided to set out on her own Blog Tour. I asked her to keep us posted with guest blog posts here to let us know how it goes.

If you missed her first post, you can catch up here: Build Relationships and Become  Known via Your Own Blog Tour

She's now a third of the way into her own Blog Tour, so here's an update as she tracks her results…

Hi, it’s me, D’vorah Lansky from the Blog World Tour, back again with a third of the way through update on my nine-week blog tour. As you may recall, I am utilizing Nicole’s program, which she calls her Blog Tour Planner, as the foundation for my Blog Tour. This summer I am visiting nine blogs and those nine blog owners are going to be sharing their thoughts and articles with my readers on my blog.

OK, here’s the scoop. I built my blog in the middle of March and began promoting it in the middle of June. This week begins week four of the blog tour and here are my stats.

Number of unique visitors since my site launched in mid March:

(Stats derived from my awstats in my CPanel)

March 20 unique visitors
April 32 unique visitors
May 36 unique visitors
June 378 unique visitors
July 1^st – 3rd 86 unique visitors in the first 3 days of July

I activated Google Analytics on June 23^rd and from June 23^rd – July 4^th have had 158 unique visitors.

I’m not sure what this means, but I bet Nicole does… for the month of June, the awstats system reports: “54744 Hits (26.21 Hits/Visit)”. This is about 12 times the amount received in March.

Number of New Subscribers – Previously less than 1 per week – Now I am getting
4 a week on the Blog Tour site and 7 a week to my other lists.

Number of Subscribers since from March 23 – May 25 = 6 (60 days)
Number of Subscribers from June 4 – July 4 = 16 (30 days)

Number of Scribers to my other lists since June 1^st = 27
I have not actively promoted those other sites except via mention in blog tour posts!

Future Opportunities

I’ve been contacted by five more bloggers for potential guest blogging and/or JV partnership projects in the future.

What I’ve learned along the way is:

• Schedule time to write each week
• Link up my blog to the Networked Blogs application on Facebook
• Utilize the excel spreadsheet and guidelines outlined in Nicole’s Blog Tour Planner
• Select a specific hashtag for my blog tour and encourage people to tweet about the blog posts (I’m using #blogworldtour)
• Mention my commenting and tweeting contest several times a week, at the end of my blog posts
• Schedule in advance when to get and give content to/from my host and guest bloggers so that we can schedule the content to go live at a specific time and date

So, there you have three weeks worth of stats. It will be interesting to see what evolves over the next six weeks of the tour. Looking forward to sharing the details and another update at the end of the tour.

I’d be very interested in hearing from Nicole’s readers regarding their experiences being or hosting guest bloggers. Share your tips and ideas so that we can all benefit.

Thanks again Nicole, this is a blast!

—————

I’d love to hear your comments and questions and look forward to getting to know you.

All the best,
D’vorah Lansky

Here's her story… Enjoy!

Greetings, my name is D’vorah Lansky. I’m commonly referred to as “the Relationship Marketing Wizard”. I love people, I love learning and I love to have fun. I’ve come to discover over my 15 years in Network Marketing and Internet Marketing that the best way to enjoy life and experience more success is to love what you do and surround yourself with positive minded people. This will energize you, you will have more to give and people will want to be around you. Have you ever known someone who was selling a service, product or program and truth be told, it wouldn’t matter what they were selling, you wanted to get to know them? Well that is what Relationship Marketing is all about; building relationships and selling people on you, not on your products or services.

I’d like to thank Nicole for inviting me to be a Guest Blogger on her site. Nicole and I met at an event this past Spring which was hosted by Bob “the teacher” Jenkins. I was immediately drawn to Nicole because of her positive attitude, joyful spirit and zest for life. Nicole is clearly someone who is having fun and enjoying her journey. Nicole lives the principles of Relationship Marketing. We see that in her kindness and generosity, in her high level of integrity and in how she treats her family and community.

Over the course of the event weekend and then during the past few months, Nicole and I have kept in touch. I was privileged to have Nicole as a Guest Speaker on my Internet radio show at RelationshipMarketingCafe.com.  During Nicole’s interview she shared with us a unique program that she developed called The Blog World Tour.  This immediately caught my attention as the world of WordPress Blogs is a big part of my life.

The Blog World Tour program was developed as a result of Nicole’s recent Rock Star Blog Tour. Over the course of the summer, she visited 15 blogs as a Guest Blogger.  This concept captured my attention and I decided to explore further. I’ll share in a moment what I discovered but let me share first that this post is my first post in my first Blog World Tour! Over the course of the summer, I will be visiting 9 blogs and writing articles on the topic of Relationship Marketing.

You may be asking yourself, what does Relationship Marketing have to do with a Blog Tour. I propose that developing and participating in a blog tour has everything to do with Relationship Marketing! As you begin to plan out and schedule your blog tour, you will be growing and strengthening relationships with the bloggers who will be welcoming you to their site as part of the tour. While you are a guest blogger on their site, you will have opportunities for building relationships with their readers and members and as your tour progresses through the season, you will be able to make additional connections with people who discover you via the social networks.

You may be asking, “how will people discover me via the social networks”? Well, as part of Nicole’s Blog Tour Guide, she shares unique ways for encouraging viewers to comment on and share links on the social networks to your blog posts. Many new people will discover you this way and begin to follow your progress and your blog tour.

As my blog tour developed I realized that this is program is one that I can participate in not only during the summer, but all year long! In Nicole’s “How to Blog Tour” Guide, I learned about the importance of developing a product that has an affiliate program attached to it.

I’m really excited about the product that will be born as a result of my participation in the Blog World Tour. It is called, Blog Tour Extravaganza (coming soon) and will include the complete collection of all my posts from this season’s blog tour along with lots of exciting bonuses. One of the bonuses is a collection of Audio Interviews and Transcripts from people who speak on a topic related to the focus of this season’s tour.

Many of these speakers happen to also be participating in my current blog tour; Nicole Dean, Bob “the teacher” Jenkins, Connie Ragen Green and Jessica Swanson. Additionally, I’ll be sharing an audio and the transcripts from a recent interview I did with David Frey, on the topic of generating referrals through relationship marketing!

You may have noticed that I made reference to “this season’s blog tour”. What I realized in preparing for my first blog tour, which begins with this very post, is that this would be a wonderful way to focus on specific niche topics and visit related blogs and get to know thought leaders and experts on these topics, throughout the year. It was like a light bulb moment for me when I had this realization. This is how The Blog Tour Extravaganza – Season One; Relationship Marketing was born!

Nicole lays out the blog tour system so clearly in her guide that I was able to personalize it and create a template that I can easily replicate throughout the year on a wide variety of topics. Because this will be an ongoing project, I’ve also set up a membership site as a way for participants to interact and learn from one another.

Have I got your ideas flowing yet? Additionally, in honor of Nicole, as the founder of this program, I have the privilege of being a guest blogger right here on her site, three times during the course of the tour. I’ll be back again towards the middle of the tour, and then again at the end of the tour.

Give thought to what message, thoughts and ideas you’d like to share with the world. What audience, leaders, educators or marketers would you like to get to know personally or get to know better? What do you want to become known as an expert on? Decide on your niche focus, schedule several times a week to write and take your blog tour on the road!

Until next time!
D’vorah Lansky

M.Ed and Relationship Marketing Wizard

-> Better than article marketing? Heck yeah.

-> Better than begging affiliates to promote you? Definitely.

-> Better than chocolate? Not a chance.

Here's what Carrie Wilkerson said about my Blog Tour guide on Twitter:

See original Tweet here to confirm:
http://twitter.com/barefoot_exec/status/5217094040

Here's what Lexi Rodrigo said about my Blog Tour Guide. Her blog was one of the ones that I stopped at during my tour.

Hi Nik,

Frankly, I wish you hadn't written the Blog World Tour Guide. I would have wanted to remain one of the few who knew about this secret ninja strategy for getting more traffic, subscribers and buyers.

I know the Blog World Tour works, because I own one of the blogs you toured. As a result of you touring my blog, I had more readers and made more affiliate sales than ever. I also saw an increase in participation on my blog.

But the best part, I think, was that I had terrific content on my blog that I was truly proud to share with my readers and Twitter followers. And my readers were thrilled to win a few prizes from you as well.

It was win-win for everybody involved: the guest expert, the blog owner, and the blog readers.

After seeing these results from your Blog World Tour, I plan to go on a blog tour myself. And now I've got your blueprint to do it, step by step. Including your forms, and emails I can swipe.

I'm glad you have different suggested schedules, because I don't think I could manage to post daily for several weeks. I've been posting daily on my own blog for the whole of October and it's been a real challenge. Not sure I want to keep doing that.

Oh and I'm also going to recommend this strategy to my clients who want to give their infoproduct businesses a quick shot in the arm.

I can't wait to tell you about the results of my own blog tour. Watch out for it!

Lexi Rodrigo
TheSavvyFreelancer.com

Can this method work in niches outside of Internet Marketing? Yep.

Here's what Susanne of  HillbillyHousewife.com said:

“I did a much shorter blog tour than Nicole. Mine is turning out to be 5 weeks long. Some blogs I posted on all week, others preferred one post a week for 4 weeks and I fit in a few single guest posts as well. The results – so far my traffic is up 20.55%, my newsletter readership has increased by over 2,000 and I have made quite a few sales.

By far my favorite part though is that I've gained a few new affiliates that might just turn out to become super affiliates and I was able to get a few others who had joined my affiliate program a while back to actively promote my ebooks.

Last but not least, my own affiliate income has increased by 15% as well, and I've been spending less time than usual on the Hillbilly Housewife website.”

Note: Susanne already had a list and a good readership when starting AND she implemented the info as I laid out in the plan.

If you sell any of your own products or services online – this can help you to get more traffic & more sales.

If you'd like to check it out, here's the link:
How to Get More Traffic & Affiliates & JV Partners Through a Blog Tour

As always, I want your trust more than I want your money, so, if you'll buy this and USE it – you'll benefit. If it'll sit on your hard-drive, then get back to work, and we'll connect soon.

Thank you for your trust.

Warmly,
Nicole Dean

PS. If you're a Virtual Assistant and you've studied this guide, don't forget to get on our list of VA's who are Blog Tour Certified. A pdf of VA's will go out to all customers as a special bonus. After you've bought it and studied the guide, if you want to be added to a list of qualified service providers who offer this service that I'll send to past customers in a few weeks, just email helper@mostlysanemarketing.com with your name, URL, and email address.

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