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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 [...]

The Secret to a Successful Blog – Have a Cause

Today, we offer a most valuable blogging tip. If you want to attract the most attention to your blog while generating a large “fan club” to your company, have a cause that you are fanatical about! Yes, if you represent outstanding customer service, or are the only business that practices “going green” philosophy, these are all [...]

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 [...]

Developing a Focus On Your Blog

One of the most important ways to make your blog successful is to have a laser sharp focus regarding the topic of your blog. Since I concern myself with helping “brick and mortar” businesses get online presence in order to get more customers, my main topic is about using blogs to achieve this. If you [...]

What Not To Do When Blogging

During all these posts I have been hounding everyone to get a blog to promote their business, or their views on life or anything they have passion for. Now for the major “don’ts” when blogging. Here they are folks! DON”T EVEN START BLOGGING IF: You don’t intend on posting regularly to your blog You don’t [...]

Blogging Best Practices

When publishing your business blog, there are ways to increase its value by way of “best practices.” By this, we mean to have in place, a strategy where the blog will be a” complete package” to complement your business. It must have quality content. Think of a good book you last read or the types [...]

How to get started in business blogging

Before you start putting up your business blog, remember that you have to outline your plan. First, you must define the purpose of the blog. Do you want more sales? Do you want to provide more value to existing customers? Are you trying to develop a referral system whereby allowing current customers to refer more [...]