Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now!

Grow Your Blog Community Using 4 Models Of Public Relations

CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA

So you have blog but how do you grow your readership? Could you develop relationships with your current community and turn them into your Blogging tribe? What is the Four Models of Public Relations, and how does that tie in with your blogging efforts?

What is a Blogging Tribe?

More than a community of readers, your blogging tribe acts like brand ambassadors who regularly visit, comment on and publicise your blog via their Social Media platforms. Once you build up a strong tribe, your blog posts has a higher potential to go viral via the social media networks of your community.

What is Public Relations?

Public Relations Blog CommunityUnlike the sensationalised image that Samantha Jones from Sex and the City or Nick Taylor from Thank You For Smoking portrays, public relations is a profession that specialises in communicating information between an organisation (your blog) and its target publics (your blog readers). However, it is a complex field so if you’re interested, Public Relations Institute of Australia provides a much better definition here.

Some examples of better-known public relation job titles include: Spokesperson, celebrity publicist, community relations officers and social media strategist.

Four Models Of Public Relations

Four Models of PR is one of the core concepts of public relations by theorist James. E. Grunig. It basically discusses four different models of communicating with target publics and suggests that the two-way symmetrical model is the best form of communications for organisations. The four models of PR are the press agentry/publicity, public information model, two-way asymmetrical and the two-way symmetrical model. Below you can see the Analysis of The Four Models and their Relevance to Community Engagement.

1. The Press Agentry/Publicity Model

Remember the influx of “Buy this and lose 10 pounds,” or “Sign up and make 1million dollars working from home,” websites a decade ago? One directional, in your face promotions that often hard sells a product using exaggerated claims falls under this publicity model.

2. Public Information Model

Most government, legal and military sites that dispenses information to the public, often fall under this model, where information is often biased and communication is one directional. So do personal blogs created for cathartic purposes.

3. Two-way Asymmetrical Model

Blogs that research trending topics without interacting with your audiences, in order to persuade the readers into their ideologies, such as niche blogs with a specific agenda that do not engage with their readers, fall into this category.

4. Two-way Symmetrical Model

This model is advocated by Grunig as the best form of communications for organisations, seeks to promote mutual understanding between with an organisation (your blog) and its stakeholders (your readers). While it was traditionally viewed as an idealistic way to conduct Businesses by theorists, the evolution of social media, has created a perfect environment to execute this model via community engagement.

Grow Your Blog Using the Two-way Symmetrical Model

The key to the two-way symmetrical model is listening and communicating with your audiences in order to provide a service that is mutually beneficial, ie, a win-win situation.

  • Add polls to your blog.
  • Read your community’s blogs and leave comments. You can also drive traffic by Blog Commenting.
  • Publicise your community’s blog posts and social media sites via blog post links, social media sharing of links, retweets, #FF and shout outs. Remember to inform or tag them too!
  • Reply to blog comments.
  • Ask engaging questions on your blog, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
  • Read your follower’s feeds.
  • Involve your readers by asking them what they’ll like to read in your next blog post. Learn how to interact with your readers effectively.

Sometimes growing a community of loyal readers boil down to the simple concept that people enjoy being listened to, acknowledged and appreciated. If you take time to ask your readers questions, listen to them, acknowledge their words, mention them in your writing and share their content, you are providing a service beyond churning blog post, you’re building mutually beneficial relationships.

While this is a time demanding way to grow your blogging tribe, the benefit is that your followers are often very loyal and willing to happy to share your content with their networks.

Do you communicate with your readers regularly? How do you reach out to them? What are some of your success stories? Do you have a blog that you offer unsolicited publicity? Why?


▲

By

Jeszlene Zhou is a Community Relations Coordinator at WPBeginner, the largest unofficial WordPress resource site that offers free WordPress videos, as well as comprehensive guides like choosing the best WordPress hosting, speeding up WordPress, and many more how-to’s for the WordPress beginner.

Want to discuss your queries and interact with experts? You can connect with HellBound Bloggers (HBB) Facebook group for free!

Join HellBound Bloggers (HBB) and get Instant Updates. We'll also notify you with Great Deals, Discounts and other Interesting Tips. We won't SPAM or SHARE your Email Address with anyone.

Other Interesting Articles From Blogging • Featured

YOU CAN ALSO SEARCH FOR YOUR DESIRED TOPICS:

Thank you for reading! We welcome and appreciate your comments, but at the same time, make sure you are adding something valuable to this article. If you have any serious queries, suggestions or anything related to this article, feel free to share them, we really appreciate that.

But, if your blog comments are a random "Thank you", "Useful Post", or anything that doesn't actually upscale the article, then we'll be removing them and it won't be appeared below. Thanks for understanding and thanks for connecting with us. If you want to give us any feedback or report any errors, you can kindly contact us and we'll revert back soon.

  • Comments
  • Facebook Comments
  • Comments

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published.

    You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

    13 Comments

    • Monthly Round Up: ExpressionEngine, WordPress, Magento | @nexcess

      […] Grow Your Blog Community Using 4 Models Of Public Relations – So you have blog but how do you grow your readership? […]

    • Sam

      I just want to ad something, one should target their pitch to the right bloggers – bloggers that are a vertical fit for their product or service, bloggers that are open to being pitched, and bloggers that offer the network that will help their story travel. Good post, thanks for sharing.

    • Gomes Maria

      I think two way symmetrical Model will help in a great way to attract loyal readers on your blogs.
      Thanks for sharing this information, this is really a gem of information a new thing I have learnt from your blog, keep posting worthful information like this.

    • jean

      Being a blogger these shared models are very important and effective. I never tried these sources to grow my blog community and public relation. Before read your post i was unaware about these very important model, no-doubt these can be very helpful to enhance any blog’s visibility or appearance in search engine.

    • Rahul

      awesome post!!!!
      it is very beneficial for me i am improving my skills
      thanks

    • Rajkumar Jonnala

      I recently started a blog and iam on the way of developing it. Thanks for the post i would like to you your tips for developing it much better.

    • Mike Reeson

      I had the idea in mind that I would obviously like to listen to what my readers think…but, I wasn’t quite sure how to do it. The suggestions you’ve given above will help tremendously!

    • Asif Billah

      Currenltly i am using Google friend connect on my blog, as most of the people have Google account so they can join my site community, while for other you need to create special account

  • Facebook Comments