Muses

Getting the static out of an elevator pitch for your blog.

Finally settling down at the blog to take on the first day of ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog with the Yeah Write community. Never mind I’m sitting on a couch in a nice living room, not my own, as my daughter’s trumpet and her teacher’s horn serenade me.

This is too important to miss.

Day 1 assignment: Write an elevator pitch for your blog.

What the heck is this blog about? What is my message? My mission?

Good grief. I went to my first blogging conference in May. Lots of fun. Lots of handing out of business cards and lots of questions, “So what is your blog?”

“My blog is called South Main Muse.”

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This is when I started to realize that it makes no sense. Well, no sense to anyone who doesn’t live in my small town. And to narrow that massive pool to an even smaller subset, it probably wouldn’t make sense to anyone not living in Morgan County, Georgia reading the local paper.

You see for five years, I had a column South Main Muse. I live on South Main Street and I wrote humorous observations of small town life from the vantage point of my porch on South Main Street.

Makes perfect sense if you lived in Morgan County and got the local paper.

Guess the internet is a lot bigger than that. They don’t call it the World Wide Web for nothing.

Makes the elevator pitch pretty important.

Descriptive words that spring to my mind.

Midlife, small town, family, chaos, inspire, succinct, finding humor in the every day.

Hmm.

What about . . .

Midlife crazy from a porch on South Main Street.

Don’t know. Any suggestions?

 

 

           

           

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