something pretty cool happened

for those of you who didn't know, last tuesday laura of six out of ten mag and i launched a new twitter chat. "another one!" you scream, but yes; another one. i used to be a regular in the #lbloggers chats on a sunday and - when i remembered, a couple others during the week, and what i found a lot of the time was that as soon as the topic turned to pr and marketing, the claws came out and it was hangbags at dawn. that's not healthy really, for a shit ton of reasons, but none more important than the fact that that some of us believe in the power of pr and marketing your blog well, and we want to talk about it.

it seems to be a bone of contention in the blogger chats, because some people are pro "doing something because you love it" and others are "gimmeallofthefreebies", but there are another lot, a lot who believe that "time is money" and "you're worth it" and "a bunch of other clichés," but who - most importantly, "rather like getting compensated for something that is wholly a work of love".

i mentioned this to laura (in passing, laura!) and she took it upon herself to decide we should host a chat. i said hell yeah we could call it #pitchesforbitches (as a joke, laura!), and - well, we ran with it, and the #MYBchat and @MarketYrBlogCht was born.

WE'RE TRENDING IN THE UK GUYYYYS #MYBCHAT
— Market Your Blog (@MarketYrBlogCht) January 14, 2014

and my oh my, come tuesday night at approximately 7:20pm, did it bring the house down. that's because we started trending in the uk with a chat that - at first felt like pulling teeth, and later snowballed into 20 tags every ten seconds. it was epic, and we got such a great response. we kinda, sorta, maybe got off topic and generally had a nice little chat about blogging + pr, but it was nice.

everyone was really friendly, encouraging, and happy to share their experience (or lack of, which was just as nice). in the space of an hour our little chat had grown to include over 200 new faces, that ranged from newbie bloggers to those a little more noteworthy, as well as some fab pr agencies and blogger outreach companies.

are we going to do it again? heck yes we are.

join us every Tuesday at 7pm, gmt.

#mybchat @MarketYrBlog7Cht