Welcome to another interview in my new series, as mentioned previously each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger who has kindly answered my blogging questions, so let’s get on with it…
Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I’m Dr. Rus D. Jeffrey. My Doctorate is in Ministry. Aside from being a Pastor for a number of years, I’ve also been involved in broadcasting for the past 30 years. In 2005 my wife and I started reviewing movies. We are now official movie critics. Our first book of movie reviews was published in 2007. While there are plans for future yearly books, our reviews now appear on our website – Frame by Frame: A Family-Friendly Guide to the Movies – http://framebyframe.godlaughs.net – We also do weekly recorded movie reviews which currently air on three radio stations. We live in Upstate New York, just outside of Rochester, New York.
Q: Hi Rus, so tell me about your blog, when and why you started it and how you came up with the name for it?
A: As mentioned above, our blog is Frame by Frame. It started as a direct outflow of our movie reviews. The name comes from the idea that we review movies “frame by frame” as we see them. The main branding point for us is our rating system. We call it the Lloyd system. We rate movies out of 5 Lloyds. Our main logo we have named Lloyd. It’s short for “celluloid” which is a spin on the celluloid, or film, that movies are made on. We have a number of different variations of Lloyd which you can find on the website.
Q: Do you find blogging takes up a lot of your time?
A: I’m the News Director at a local radio station – http://www.1420wack.com – As News Director I do the morning run which means I work Monday through Friday 4am to 12noon. Much of my blogging is done there. Aside from the movie reviews on the blog, I post weekly Box Office Results posts, as well a New In Theaters post every week. Aside from those set posts, I also blog about other movie and entertainment news on pretty much a daily basis. The posts are usually done in the morning.
Q: Where would you say most of your traffic comes from for your blog?
A: Traffic to the blog comes from a number of sources, but the main source at this point is probably StumbleUpon. I usually try to Stumble all of my posts. However, depending on what’s going on in the world of entertainment, Google searches can increase my hits a lot too. For example, when the story broke about Will Ferrell posing in the background of a couple’s engagement picture, my traffic saw a huge increase. I’ve written about Ferrell on a number of occasions so when people searched his name, the Frame by Frame blog came up in the search engine.
Q: Do you use social networks to promote your blog and if so which ones would you recommend to other bloggers?
A: Yes, I’m very active on social media networks. Most of my time is spent on Twitter. However, also use FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Plaxo. But, I feed those networks via my Ping.fm account. As I’ve been building our Frame by Frame and Lloyd brand, it’s been via Twitter.
Q: If you could give some useful advice to new bloggers, what would it be?
A: Find your niche and work on your brand. It’s a sea of bloggers out there on the Internet and it can be a very busy place to try to get yourself established. But, with focus and the use of social media such as Twitter and then using some bookmarking avenues like StumbleUpon, Digg, etc., you will find your readership building. Nothing is an overnight success. Keep at it, and stay focused on your passion.
Thanks Vic.
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Twitter: Ileane
says:
Hi Dr. Rus, Very nice to meet you. You have some great advice about using social media to spread the word about your blog. I know a fellow blogger that is a great writer and she has tons of experience making money doing article writing, but she admits that she sucks at using social media. I think she sent out 7 tweets so far. I think that’s funny because it’s early here and I think I’ve sent 7 tweets already this morning. HA!
Well I’m certainly going to tweet this post and I’ll follow you there too!
Cheers!
.-= Ileane is hoping you stop by and read Tribute to PBS Programming =-.
Twitter: drrus
says:
Hey Karen & Ileane!
So grateful for the post here! I appreciate your time in writing it Karen, and Ileane, thanks for your kind words.
Dr. Rus
.-= Dr. Rus Jeffrey is hoping you stop by and read 021910: New In Theaters =-.
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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You’re most welcome, it’s much appreciated that fellow bloggers to take the time to complete these interviews
Twitter: money_whisper
says:
Hello Dr. Rus. You have given some great advices for new bloggers. Social media is such a powerful tool these days and many people don’t know what to do with it. As you said, success don’t comes overnight but many people are not realizing this and they abandon their idea because of that. Focus, adaptability and innovation are they keys of success.
This is a really great blog. I love how the idea of interviewing other bloggers and internet users as a means of providing fresh, new content for your site. I am sure once you’ve developed quite a following you could probably get some pretty big names to do interveiws on the site.
.-= Sylvia@ Make Money Online is hoping you stop by and read Why Choose Mlm Leads_ =-.
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I’m hoping to get some big names, you just never know..