Lunch Talk: "Blogging to Build Your Business" with Alice Osborn and Dave Baldwin

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If you own your own business and you’re not blogging, you are missing a huge opportunity. Blogging is not rocket science, but it does require discipline and a consistent practice to keep your creative juices flowing.

Have you started blogging, but stopped after you ran out of ideas?

Do you want to start a blog, but feel unclear as to what topics make sense?

Are you trying to figure out how the heck a blog is going to get you any customers?

Is your blog sitting in a vacuum with nobody reading it?

Do you struggle with finding the time to write—and find yourself drawing a blank when you finally do have time?

If you said “yes” to any of these questions, this is a talk you will not want to miss! Seasoned bloggers Alice Osborn and Dave Baldwin will be sharing their secrets for building and keeping up a successful blog year after year!

MEETING LOGISTICS

Lunch is $12 (be ready to pay at the door). Our lunch talk meetups run from 11:30 to 1:00.

We will have open mingling and networking from 11:30 to 12:00. At 12:00, we will begin the formal presentation by the speaker. Presentations typically run approximately 45 minutes.The buffet will be open for the entire time, but we ask that attendees not go up to the buffet during the presentation. The buffet will continue to be open after the event is concluded.

Please get your food and be ready for the presentation to start promptly at noon. Be sure to bring plenty of business cards!

About Alice Osborn

Born in Washington, D.C., the winter after Watergate to a Masterpiece Theater-obsessed mother and Archie Bunker-obsessed father, Alice’s past educational and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a poet, as well as an editor, coach and marketing consultant for writers. After the Steaming Stops is her most recent collection of poetry; previous collections are Right Lane Ends and Unfinished Projects. Alice is also the editor of the short fiction anthology, Tattoos (Main Street Rag, 2012). She has taught classes and writing workshops to hundreds of aspiring authors of nearly all ages (from 9 to 90), both in person and online. Her work has appeared in the News and Observer, The Broad River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings Review and in numerous journals and anthologies. Alice lives in Raleigh with her husband, two children and now two parakeets: Woodbird and Perry. Birdstein wants you to know he exchanged this world for a better one. Visit Alice's website at www.aliceosborn.com.

About Dave Baldwin

Dave is a content writer who helps business owners attract customers by regularly publishing unique and relevant content on the web. Originally from Pennsylvania, Dave moved to Raleigh in 2007 to build his own business. A classic introvert, Dave taught himself to program computers at age 10, but didn't kiss a girl until age 18. Dave wrote a book in 2009, called "Get That Book Out of Your Head." Dave has two aspirations: to take his top secret idea to the Shark Tank, and to write a novel that becomes a blockbuster motion picture.