Welcome to the first Chapter in the Advanced Guide To Blog Marketing. This chapter gives you specific ways to build a community that will allow you to market to them. That's an important part of online marketing today and when it comes to marketing your blog, your audience or a community of followers is a very powerful asset.

There is a lot of good information in this guide, but this may be the most important chapter. You can buy ads and share your blog posts on social media all you want, but without a community you're going to struggle to gain momentum.

The time to start building a community is now.

Maybe you've already begun building your social media communities. That's good, but in this chapter we're going to show you how to expand your communities.

And if you haven't started yet that's all right too. The information in this chapter will give you a framework to begin building your communities.

Everybody you email, tweet and chat with is a potential member of your blog marketing community, but those aren't the only people you need.

Eventually, your community will include potential readers and people that know your potential readers. The people that know your potential readers are influencers that can share and broadcast your messages.

In this chapter, we'll show you the steps to build your community with all the tools available today.