benefits of a blog

New Business Blog Report Out in March

I am excited to announce that I will be putting out a free report geared to all “brick and mortar” businesses everywhere that will reveal the current trends of blogs and how they can enhance your revenues and profits for 2010.
I have been researching many different sources for how blogs are evolving and discovered many [...]

Call to Action with Your Blog

One of the most important things that you can do to generate interest in your business while a new visitor has come to your blog site is to create a compelling “call to action.”
Call to action includes opt in boxes to capture the name and email address, promenently display of your phone number to give the [...]

Blogging for Business

When blogging for your business, you should know that the blog serves as the main “doorway” to your online visitors. Think of your blog as the face of your business and that you have only a couple of seconds to capture the visitor’s interest.
You have to map out your blog so it is easily navigatible, [...]

Blog Comments Help Attract Traffic

I found a great video here about commenting on other people’s blogs. One of the many ways to attract traffic to your blog is to comment on other blogs.  The best way to make this happen is to do an online search for other blogs that are in your industry, either complementary or similar products [...]

Getting Backlinks to Your Blog

We found a great video that explains three easy ways of driving backlinks to your blog. Getting backlinks to your blog dramatically increase higher ratings of your blog with the search engines.
Backlinks are simply where other site are linking in to your site because your content attracts them as good reference material. Because you are considered [...]

Market the Content on Your Blog

Time and time again, I am reminded that “content is king” when you set up a meaningful and profitable website or blog. In other words, you have to constantly and consistently “feed” your site with relavent content that  will keep visitors coming back for more. Even if you have to hire someone to insert content [...]

Business Blog as Your Main Website

It has come to my attention that business people, especially small business owners ask what is better, to have two sites, one being the main website and attach a blog to the main site or put up a blog and utilize that as both blog and main site in one.
I strongly believe that the business [...]

Three Things Every Business Blog Should Have

For any business blog to be worth the effort to your business, whether offline or online, you must have three main things going on.

Consistent blog posts that are valuable to the reader
An opt-in type of device to capture prospects
Video that is embedded in your blog, related to your product or service

It is not necessary to [...]

Business Blogging for 2010

I have been reading a lot of material regarding the state of business blogging and what to look forward to in 2010 and beyond. There seems to be an agreement that blogs will continue to be a mainstay of the online landscape but will be more focused.
There is a chance that blogs may restrict their [...]

Marketing Blogs Can Generate Business

Whenever you post a new article on your blog, it helps with further marketing your blog. Visitors and customers will always get the best information if you give it to them. Always remember that when you add content that you are utilizing this marketing blog as a tool to help your business grow. It may [...]