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Inspire Yourself Through Your Blog
Maintaining a blog can be a challenge sometimes. You think you run out of things to say or add to your blog and all of a sudden you get inpiration from the strangest places. While writing my last blog post, I realized that the tips and tricks and online marketing advice I talk about is [...]
Your Brand and Your Blog
Branding of your business is one of the most misunderstood marketing technique today. For most, branding simply means putting your logo on everything you can get your hands on. To others, it means making more TV commercials. Branding is not a “thing” but rather, a “process.” It is the process of conditioning your target market [...]
Business Blog Must Be Real
As part of your obligation as a business owner, you must be real to your visitors. You must portray a real person with real stories and real concerns for your customers. A blog is the best way to make this happen. If you don’t get your online presence out there, your competitors will do it [...]
Blogs That Build Community
Blogs are great to build a community of like minded people. When you post about a specific topic, you are attracting an audience that will hang on every word you say because you are the expert in your niche. Don’t feel you are an “expert?” Well, believe it or not you are once you start [...]
Blogging Can Be Fun
What kind of things can you do to make your blog fun? You can post contests for a short period of time where you invite your visitors to either guess some trivia question or answer an open ended question that has to do with your niche or industry. You can post funny videos that are [...]
Social Media is a World Wide Movement
There is a mind opening video I found from ALI BAYAT that I think you will find very interesting. He put together this video in relation to the global governance and global communication and how social media and Web 2.0 technology is affecting our world society. This makes me realize how important blogs are to the [...]
How Blogs Enhance Company Image
Here is a video that talks about how a business blog improves customer relations by truly communicating with its audience in an informative way.
Attracting Traffic to Your Blog
You need to plan out how you attract traffic to your blog. By this, I mean attracting online visitors that turn into real visitors that walk into your place of business. In order for you to do this, you should think logicially how this happens. I will be putting out a report next week that [...]
The Right Way to Do Blog Commenting
As a follower of pro blogger, Darren Rowse, I am happy to know that he shares the same philosophy as mine regarding commenting on other blogs. As you know, the value of commenting on other blogs is getting one way backlinks to your blog site. When you make comments on other blogs, really get into [...]
Blog to Your Targeted Audience
Learning to blog is one thing. To blog to your targeted audience is another thing. Once you have decided on the purpose of your blog, the next thing is to know your audience. How do you get to know your audience? Simple, get yourself in front of you potential audience that you are catering to. [...]
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 [...]
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 is a Conversation
Your blog should be a “conversation” with your audience. Keep it fairly short and valuable to the reader and convey a sincere “personality.” People want a real connection with the blogger. This is especially important with a business blog. If you truly connect with your audience, you develop new customers quickly. Check out the video [...]
Blogs Build Community = Profits
Everyone wants to belong to a club, a family, a group that they can relate to. It is “hard wired” in human beings that we relate to other human beings in order to survive. Anthropological scientists say that we are social beings. Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, My Space and most notably, blogs, answer [...]
Blogging Tips – Making Comments on Other Blogs
Making comments of other blogs is one of the most successful ways to drive traffic to your own blog. You are beginning to realize the responsibility you have once you start a blog. If you train your mindset to tend to your blog at least once a day like you check your email, you will [...]
