Fellow bloggers: Help!

[lizzelizard]

Hi all! I decided to start writing a free blog. I make no money off of it, but love the concept of helping nursing students remember concepts of anatomy and physiology. My blog has just started a couple days ago. I kid you not, the big joke in nursing school, because I had the highest GPA, was, "There is something wrong with your brain. How do you remember all this stuff?" Well, now I am trying to offer a look inside the noggin'. I am starting off with a narrative of the cell being a bustling city. The reader can visualize a city that has people with specific roles and buildings with specific functions. This is how I remembered in school. I would also think of separate association that are completely random, but work (I.e. cytoskeleton: roadway in the city, but looks like a giant spider web that holds the structure of the cell, etc.) 

The problem that I am having is getting readers. Even though it is free, I do not monetize and I do not want to do sponsors, I do put a lot of effort into the blog and I want it to hit the right audience. How do I get my blog out there? People mention posting on my FB feed, but that is not hitting the audience that I am looking to gather. All my friends could care less, either not in nursing or not students. I have tried a couple of nursing FB groups, but they say "no self-promotion". If I am not really getting anything other than the self satisfaction of creating something really cool, how do I explain it is not self-promotion because that is what it looks like. Where else can I post, so I know that people can read it, provide feedback, and perhaps expand so then other people can also learn? 

 

[mandsann]

Honestly, when I took A&P, I was not a fan of reading more anatomy outside a textbook. If your resources are mostly just bulk text I would work on creating photos/art/visuals! 

 

I also feel like facebook is not the platform that it once was. Instagram is more open. Tik tok is the best since it has an algorithm that helps blow people up and get things to the right audience by hashtags/engagement/people just watching related videos. 

 

I run a "successful" (LOL) cat instagram with over 3k followers and a personal tik tok with 700k+ likes. Feel free to ask for help! 

[HiddenAngels]

try Youtube (they often do demonstrations and then offer links to their websites)

[DSCH]

Try to contact blogs with similar content and offer them to link back to you as your blog provides exceptional value to the reader. That is something that one of my friends has done. 

[Nursinglivingthedream]

I'm finding it difficult to get started as well.  If you want to email me at [email protected], we can exchange blogs and maybe help each other out!