adding video to your blog
Blogs Drive Traffic to Your Main Website
For those of you who have a business website, it can serve as an online “brochure” and give more in depth information about your company and products. There is an added advantage if you start a blog as a companion site to your main site. I often use the the term “feeder site” when describing [...]
Blog Tips – Setting Up a Youtube Channel to Boost Visits To Your Site
Here are two videos that explain how to first set up a Youtube channel from scratch. It is necessary to have a Google mail account first before you set up a Youtube account. If you don’t know, Google owns Youtube so your Google mail account can be used as a login for Youtube. In this [...]
Video Strategy for Your Blog
Since a blog captures all aspects of content, text, pictures, documents, sound, and video, you need to make sure you keep building your video library of your business and post it on video sites for greater exposure. Lately, you’ve heard about the video of the homeless man, Ted Williams that went “viral” within a matter [...]
Make An Effective Video Blog Post
Making a video post in your blog is very similar to making a text blog post entry. You need to think it out, make sure you are relevant to your topic, and make it attractive to your visitors so they come back for more content. Here is a video that goes over the basics of [...]
What You Should Know About Blogging in 2011
Blogging in 2011 is going to be exciting. First, you should be aware that you need to pull all the stops in 2011. High quality blog posting, more pictures, more video, posting more often, more call to action, more interactivity with your customers and blog visitors. Search engines want you to be more “active” with [...]
Blog Marketing
Blog marketing is an exploding way of marketing your business online. When you have a brick and mortar business, you have the usual ways to advertise your business; print advertising, TV commercials, radio commercials, flyers, outbound call centers, etc. Blog marketing should be a regular addition to your complete business marketing plan. With a blog, [...]
How To Use Blogs For Business
Blogs were primarily used for personal communication between family members years ago. Around 2005, blogs started to be used by businesses as a creative way to let their customers know about their products and services. It wasn’t until 2006 that blogs for business dramatically increased to hundreds of thousands. Business caught the “social media fever” and [...]
Visit Other Blogs
Do you want to be a better business blogger? Go out and visit other blogs. You certainly cannot operate in a blogging “vacuum,” here. You have to know what your competition and business partners blog about. It could give you ideas for what to write about in your blog. You may even stumble on a [...]
Content Management System
You might have heard the term contact management system in the internet marketing circles. The most common definition of a content management system is the database programs that management customer contact and customer relationships. You might remember the out of the box programs called ACT!, Maximizer, and Salesforce.com. These were, and still are used for [...]
Using Youtube to Drive Lots of Visitor Traffic
One of the most powerful ways to drive a ton of visitors to your blog site is with video. Youtube is the king of free video hosting, which is owned by search engine giant, Google. Youtube is the third most viewed site in the world. So it goes without saying that having a video on [...]
Blog Tips – How To Drive Visitors to Your Place of Business
It is the main objective for a blog to drive visitors to your local place of business. The very design and layout of your blog should guide your visitors to make it easy to find out more about your business and what it offers. All content in your blog should give direct benefits to our [...]
Video on Your Website
Video has been the main focus for driving traffic in the past three years and there seems to be no stopping of it in the near future. You have seen video listings on your internet search at or near the top of the first page of the search engine. This is because there is more [...]
Online Publishing for Getting Attention
When getting attention to your business and your products, you have the conventional means of doing this by using print advertising, radio and TV advertising, cold calling, banner ads, but the hot trend now is to utilize online publishing as a big source of getting attention. What is online publishing? Well, a website or business [...]
Blog Tips – Getting Attention
Since there is over 200 million blogs online (per technorati 2009), we assume that it is a challenge for getting the attention of most of the internet surfers out there. But the good thing is that, since your business deals with a product or service in a particulat niche, you can eliminate most of that [...]
Attracting Traffic to Your Blog
Currently the two best ways to attract traffic to your blog is through video marketing and using social media. Check out the following video below and in the next several posts, I will go into detail about how I use these methods to attract traffic.
