business blogging
Time Management and Your Blog
I’ve been getting so many requests from bloggers on how to best manage their time when maintaining their blog. After looking back at what I do, it never dawned on me that your really have to keep a consistent schedule to keep up with your blog in order to keep in the “good graces” with the [...]
List Building with Blogs
One of the most effective marketing advantages for using a business blog is that it serves to build a prospect and/or customer list. I wish that, with every blog software, it would include an “opt in” box so that the blog owner doesn’t even have to bother with adding this feature. Search engines love blogs [...]
New Free Seminar In Scottsdale
For those of you who are located in Scottsdale, Arizona, we are pleased to announce our next new FREE seminar, “Generate More Customers By Using the Internet to Your Advantage.” It will be held on Thursday, July 29, 2010. It starts at 8:30 am and ends 10:30 am. For Details CLICK HERE.
Blogs Communicate with Your Audience
When blogs first came into the mainstream about 7 years ago, the intention was to carry on a “conversation” between the blogger and the blog visitor. It has never been more true today. Before you even start your own business blog, make sure you understand the overall purpose of it. You operate a business, you [...]
Do You Have An Online Presence?
Blogs are just one form of online presence. Many businesses, believe it or not, in this day and age do not have a website. If you don’t have a website or blog, you are already at a disadvantage. Would you believe that, if you don’t have any web presence today, your business will get less [...]
Where Do Blog Visitors Come From?
I’ve often been asked, “where do blog visitors come from?” After taking a look at my webhost statistics and making sure that I know my “metrics” of the quantity and quality of my “hits,” “visitors,” and “page views,” I got to thinking about really, where are my visitors coming from. I don’t think any blog [...]
The State of Blogging Today
Curious to know about how effective blogging is right now? I came across some interesting statistics from a well known blog about blogs, Technorati. There are over 130 million blogs indexed as of 2002. Over 77% of internet users read blogs. Just these two statistics alone make blogging for your business relevant to anyone going [...]
WordPress As the Most Popular Blog Platform for Business
There are literally thousands of downloads of WordPress happening every single day. Since this is one of the most popular blogging platforms, it is even included in a ’30 second” download directly from webhosting companies. Many webhost companies come with an administrative interface called “cpanel.” For more information on cpanel, click here. Within this interface, [...]
What is the Best Blog Platform?
There are certainly a lot of blogging platforms out there in the blogosphere. Each platform has its own fan club. Each platform has its pros and cons and seems to satisfy the cravings for different types of personalities who use them. Here is a small sampling of blog platforms that are easy to get online. [...]
How To Make Your Blog Popular – Part 2
There is no “magic bullet” to make your blog popular. It is usually a matter of careful planning at the start to generate interest from your readers. Add a little creativity on a variety of “stuff” you can add to your blog, along with a little “luck.” Yes, I said luck! When you do trial [...]
