{"id":4616,"date":"2022-10-26T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcentsmagazine.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:28:27","slug":"building-your-audience-with-blog-hops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcentsmagazine.com\/?p=4616","title":{"rendered":"Building Your Audience With Blog Hops"},"content":{"rendered":"The most important asset we have as online (or offline) business owners is our audience. Our audience is captured in our email list. So ... how do we grow our email list? One way I\u2019m doing just that - is by participating in Blog Hops.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\nWHAT ARE BLOG HOPS?\r\nA Blog Hop is an online event created by a group of bloggers (business owners) where each agrees to create a blog post and link that post to all other participating blogs. 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