business blogging

Free Blogging Service or Paid?

There seems to be a mixed bag of feelings whether you should get a free blogging platform or paid for platform. An example of a free blog platform is available at www.wordpress.com or www.blogger.com If you set up a blog on these platforms, you have a quick way of “testing” the waters whether you have the [...]

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 [...]

The Difference Between Blogs and Websites

During my last semianr, I was asked, “what is the difference between blogs and regular websites.” Answer, blogs are interactive and easy to manage, and regular websites are “clunky” and are complicated to manage. I answer this from the standpoint of the website/blog owner. A website owner can hire a “webmaster” but it can cost [...]

Blog Tips – Call To Action

One important thing to have on your blog is a “call to action.” How often to you go to a website or blog and see some information, some pictures, maybe even a video but nothing to “do?” What I mean by that is, “what buttons can I click?” As with any marketing website, you always [...]

Blogging And Your Online Reputation

Believe it or not, someone may be blogging something good or something bad about your business. Before we go into detail of this recent trend, I have a video below taken from the Fox News Network to explain further, the possible situations that can occur from either very happy customers or disgruntled customers.

Video Blogging is Very Popular

Video blogging has become one of the main ways to get the most traffic in the least amount of time. People online are very visual in nature. Video is the preferred way to get content now days. Video is cheap to make, easy to upload to a video site like YouTube, and is able to reach [...]

Blogging Profiles – Why Blogging Works

I am an avid follower of fellow blogger Denise Wakeman of “BuildaBetterBlog.com” She is one of the members of the original “blog squad” with Patsi Krakoff. I think they both went their separate ways now but I do keep track of what each have been doing in the blogosphere. They are both still active in [...]

WordPress – Easy Publishing Platform

WordPress, by far, has got to be the most popular and easiest blogging platform there is when seriously starting a blog. If you want to start a personal blog, a blog for your organization, or strictly business, WordPress easily handles all of them. Now, this is not a commercial for WordPress, as this platform is [...]

Blogging To Develop a Fan Club

No matter what business you are in, blogging can help you develop a “fan club” of sorts. The most successful businesses are possible by having a solid customer base. Think of the Queen of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey. She has a raving fan club that never quits. She couldn’t turn off making money from her [...]

Blogging for Business

There is a great book written by Ted Demopoulos named, “Blogging for Business, Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care.” The author writes in an easy to read and entertaining way so that any technophobe can understand. About half the book reveals how businesses from medium size to large corporations are using [...]