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Build Your Community With A Blog
Every blogger knows that you should build a “community” in order to grow your list and more sales for your business. Give to your customers first and the sales will follow. When you offer valuable information and a positive experience, you will get repeat visits to your blog and that allows you to continue to [...]
Use Your Blog To Be A Leader In Your Field
World renown marketer/author Seth Godin says that in order to have a thriving business today, you have to be a leader in your industry. Don’t follow what other businesses or your competition is doing. Blaze your own path in marketing your product. Even in the design of your product or service, you should be a [...]
Build Your Customer List
Building your customer list is a very important ongoing task that any business should be doing. Of course there are many ways to build that customer list in your own location, but for the purposes of online presence, there is one method that, hands down is very effective. Inserting an “opt in” box in either [...]
How Do You Build Community On Your Blog
Building community on your blog takes a little planning. “Why do I need to create a community on my blog?” It is because the success of your business depends on it. When starting a blog, you will be visited by people who never heard of you and your business before. You also may be visited [...]
Blogging Is A One to One Communication Experience
In the following video below, Facebook co-founder, Sean Parker talks about how valuable blogging is from the blogger and the blog visitor in that it is a one on one communication channel. Think about how personalized this way of communicating online actually is. The blogger, being the author/publisher and the visitor, being the consumer of [...]
Blogging Communicates With Your Audience
To be a successful blogger, you have to be committed to making coversation with your audience. Once you research and confirm who your audience is, you can target your content you generate, and therefore generate a loyal following. Here is a video that covers just this topic of using blogs as a conversation tool with [...]
Blogs Communicate With Your Customers
Since the start of this blog in 2006, my view on the function of a blog has not changed. Blogs communicate with your customers. Blogs are a two way communication with your audience. Always remember that. When making blog posts, remember to provide timely news about your product or service. Address the concerns of your [...]
Social Media Influencers and Your Blog
By now, you should know that your blog, in order to be successful at promoting your business, should be connected to Google, Twitter, and Facebook. As mentioned in previous posts here, you blog is also a social media tool. But if you connect the power of the additional social sites, Twitter and Facebook, you exponentially [...]
Blogs Will Replace Websites
Websites are “static” and show nothing more than a “one way” flow of communication. Blogs are technically websites, but go further, they allow a two way communication. If you have a business and want to build on your brand and consequently more sales for your business, you need a blog site. It is the two [...]
Make People Connect With You Through Your Blog
Well known marketer and blogger, Seth Godin, explains that your small business and your blog is the center of how you connect with your “tribe” or customer base. It is now, more important that we connect with our audience as an indispensible source of information and products to our customers as never before.
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 [...]
Blogging is a Life Changing Event
World renown business management guru, Tom Peters has been profoundly touched when he first stated his personal blog. Blogs not only are valuable tools to market your business, it is also a ground breaking method to communicate with your customers in a way never before available.
Blogging for Small Business
Blogging for small business can be very valuable for the long term. Bloggers are constantly in communication with their visitors, whether they are actually getting comments from others or not. The important thing is. that they continue to blog because the opportunity to sell products is always a possibility. The blog medium is part of [...]
Build Community
If you’re not using your blog to build a community, you are falling behind your competitiors! The competitive market in which you are selling is only going to get tougher. You have to realize that just making one sale per customer is not going make you profitable. The old adage in business, “if you don’t [...]
Blog Marketing By Spreading Ideas
Marketing expert Seth Godin talks about spreading your ideas/products to get the attention of your target market. He explains that true business success comes from taking advantage of distributing your ideas in such a fashion that it catches on and spreads from one customer to another. It reminds me of another concept he wrote about [...]
