benefits of a blog
Adding Audio To Your Blog
One way to get attention from your blog visitors is with audio. Audio is a great way to dispense information to people who like to hear a story from your blog. It is like having a radio show on your site and the best thing is that the blog visitor can come back and click [...]
Blog Publishing Platform
As you know our blog software of choice is WordPress. Most blog adminstration areas have the same features. No matter what blog software you use, what you should know about a good blog platform is that it have the following features; posting area page area link box able to upload video and pictures has a [...]
Your Blog Can Make You Money
If you have been consistently making blog posts to your blog, you have an additional advantage in making money. Not only can your blog promote and boost sales for your brick and mortar business, but the content you put into it can also make you money. The one thing that can you can do with [...]
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 [...]
How Does Blogging Build Your Authority
One of the advantages of blogging is that it builds authority with you and your business. The main reason it does this is that what you write can be appealing to your audience and often they get actionable tips and tricks from the content. What you write in your blog post is carefully read by most [...]
Blogging is Serious Business
Like opening up your storefront, your sign on your building, your fixtures inside your store, your decor in the front window, your point of sale displays are all a part of your business that you know you will never get rid of. The same goes for your online presence. If you choose to put up a [...]
Search Engine Optimize Your Blog
In order to optimize your blog with the search engines you need to do several things. First, you need to write your blog posts to reflect the location and type of business you are doing. For example, if you are cleaners located in Atlanta Georgia, you would write a blog post about “Atlanta Georgia cleaners.” [...]
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 [...]
Should You Outsource Blog Posting?
My mailbag was filled today with many of the same questions about blog posting. They know that the more frequent blog posts appear in their blog, the more the search engines are likely to move their site higher in the search engine rankings. The main question is, “do you suggest we outsource our blog posting [...]
4 Effective Ways of Attracting Customers To Your Business
There are 4 effective ways to attract customers to your business. We will list them without emphasis on the importance. Print advertising Online presence Press release Special events Let’s take a look at print advertising. While our main philosophy is to get most of your advertising “bang” on the internet, we also believe in print [...]
Make Money With Video Blogging
You can make a lot of money with video marketing on your blog. You make money from two different directions. One, you make money representing other products as an affiliate. Second, you can make money selling your own products. The video below is from well known video blogger Gideon Shalwick. He talks about the tremendous [...]
Online Store On Your Blog
For most of this blog we have been writing blog posts of driving visitors to your physical location in order to make sales in your storefront. But did you know you can set up a “virtual store” on your business blog? It is easier than you think to develop and implement an online “store front” [...]
Domain Name of Your Blog
When starting your business blog, the domain name is going to be a very important part of the planning process. In order to have favor with the search engines to direct targeted visitors to your site, you should have the keywords of what your business is all about within the domain name. For example. if [...]
Video Marketing
Video marketing is one of the best ways to market your blog or your website. The largest video site in the world is Youtube (dot) com. It gets over 490 million unique visitors per month. If you start making videos and insert them into youtube, or other free video hosted sites, your site will stand [...]
Outsource Blog Writing
When you get to a point where you don’t really have time to write blog posts on your own blog, that is the time you should be thinking of handing blog post duties to some staff member or even an intern. Blog writing is necessary to keep your search engine growing in rank, to keep [...]
