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Free Blogging Service or Paid?
There seems to be a mixed bag of feelings whether you should get a free blogging platform or paid for platform. An example of a free blog platform is available at www.wordpress.com or www.blogger.com If you set up a blog on these platforms, you have a quick way of “testing” the waters whether you have the [...]
What Blogging Can Do To Help Your Online Presence
I stumbled upon another great video that shows how valuable a blog can be for your business. It certainly fulfills the customer needs of getting to know more about your business. In time, you develop a readership and then it gets referred to others as a very interesting place to visit for anyone wanting to [...]
The Difference Between Blogs and Websites
During my last semianr, I was asked, “what is the difference between blogs and regular websites.” Answer, blogs are interactive and easy to manage, and regular websites are “clunky” and are complicated to manage. I answer this from the standpoint of the website/blog owner. A website owner can hire a “webmaster” but it can cost [...]
Blog Purpose
When you blog, you are not only blogging for your business, you also have a greater purpose. It’s to develop a relationship with your customers and visitors. As mentioned before, a blog provides a “conversation” with your audience. When you “converse” with your audience, you develop that relationship. What is a relationship? It is developing [...]
Blogging From Anywhere In The World
I am a huge fan of professional blogger, John Chow. To date, he has made over a half million dollars from his blog. He is asked to speak at many seminars and workshops around the world and teaches people how to make money from their blog. I found a great video here that shows what [...]
How Valuable Is Blogging Today?
Blogging is more important than anything else you can do now. Whether you have a business, working for some large corporation, retired, even unemployed. If you don’t have a blog, you won’t have a way to attract attention in getting business, of getting a job if you are unemployed, or even having friends! We are [...]
Blog Tips – Call To Action
One important thing to have on your blog is a “call to action.” How often to you go to a website or blog and see some information, some pictures, maybe even a video but nothing to “do?” What I mean by that is, “what buttons can I click?” As with any marketing website, you always [...]
Blogging With Social Media
Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter seem to the be “triad” of communicating with the most people online. Remember that, with these three social media sources at your disposal, your business is in front of as many of your targeted audience as it can get. But it takes a lot of work. Facebook currently has over 500 [...]
Blogging And Your Online Reputation
Believe it or not, someone may be blogging something good or something bad about your business. Before we go into detail of this recent trend, I have a video below taken from the Fox News Network to explain further, the possible situations that can occur from either very happy customers or disgruntled customers.
Planning Your Blog Layout
Before you even start your blog, remember that the domain name is very important. It must be “catchy” and at least one main keyword of your niche or what your business does should be in the domain name. This is for search engine optimization purposes. In planning your blog layout, you should have a clean and [...]
