business blogging

Blogs Help To Attract Your Target Audience

Blogs can definitely attract your target market with laser precision.  Think about it for a moment. When you write about the specific product or service you provide, you attract the visitors and readers that are interested in just that niche. For those who are not interested, they will simply leave you blog page and surf [...]

Blogging Can Promote Anything

Blogging has come a long way for business owners, book authors, teachers, public speakers, etc. Blogging can literally promote anything. The great thing about blogs is they reach out to people, they communicate, they reinforce a business brand, they cause people to act by buying a product or service. Guy Kawasaki has chosen to use [...]

Blog Tips – Your Dedication To Your Blog

We’ve written before about being dedicated to your blog. Have you ever thought that once you started your blog that you would end up being a bonified publisher of information? Well that is true! Now, you have the power of making a difference with the people you want to attract as long term customers as [...]

Blogging Your Business With Corporate Sponsors

There will come a time, if you are a serious business blogger, that you will eventually run into a pleasant situation with another business who will approach you for exposure on your blog for their business. Usually this situation concerns itself with corporate sponsorship of you blog. A corporate entity will be attracted to your [...]

Blog Publishing

The moment you start blogging, you become a publisher. What is a publisher? The dictionary defines publishing as a person or organization that publishes periodicals, newspapers, computer software, etc.  And of course, if you want to know what the word “publish” is, the dictionary describes it as to issuing text, graphics or software to the [...]

Setting Up Your Blog – Part 3

The third and final part of setting up your blog is adjusting the permalink structure and making settings for your All In One SEO plugin. A permalink is a URL link that contains the words or phrase that describes the content within a particular blog post. This is very important for search engines because what [...]

Keep Blog Content Fresh

We have been asked many times, “how do I keep blog content fresh?” This is something you are going to run into eventually when maintaining a blog. What is “fresh blog content?” It is content, whether in the form of text, video, or pictures, that is relevant to the blog theme and captures the interest [...]

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 [...]

Why You Should Hire Someone To Manage Your Blog

We have found that, you can “lead a business to make a blog, but often cannot make him/her consistently manage it.” Sound familiar? I was alluding to the “lead a horse to drink” joke! But there is much truth in that. Blogging is not easy. Blogging takes dedication, focus, belief, and most of all “elbow [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Use Seasonal Promotions In Your Blog

Want to spike up your sales every quarter? One of the best ways to promote your business is through tying in discounts, specials and one of a kind sales with the changing in the seasons. Plan your year in advance with your promotions tied to spring, summer, fall, and winter. What is great about seasonal promotions [...]

Blog Marketing – Part 2

Blog Marketing has come a long way in the recent 4 years. It was easy to make a list of niche keywords you wanted to get ranked for and write a blog post about it and “boom,” you would rise high in the search rankings for each keyword you are going after. Since that time, [...]

SEO Your Blog

A lot of businesses that have a blog site up do not realize that there is so much you can do to optimize your blog with the search engines. One of the most popular blog plugins for WordPress blogs is a plugin called All In One SEO. What this plugin does is help to properly [...]

Promoting Your Business With Blogging

As Facebook and Twitter are all the rage in social media communications, blogging is one of the most powerful social media platforms of all. With a blog, you have more variety to offer your visitors. Not only can you make timely posts to let everyone know what is going on in your business, you can [...]