social media and your blog
More Twitter Tips For Your Business
Although you may or may not think Twitter can be valuable to your business or your blog, it is and should be one additional channel to market your business. Twitter is simply regarded as a “mini-blog.” Twitter is a form of messaging that only allows you 140 text characters per message. So being frugal with [...]
Using Social Media for Your Business
When you connect social media with your business such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, or other means of these social networked sites, you should be aware that you now open the doors to getting feedback from your connections. You want to be able to start up and continue a “conversation” with each person you connect with [...]
Web 2.0 Defined
Several years ago we were hearing the buzz about “web 2.0.” Just what is web 2.0? Well, first we have to go back to what web 1.0 was. Web 1.0 was the first phase of internet sites that were authored by webmasters, for webmasters. The public and the attraction of the public was not much [...]
Avoid Information Overload
After starting your business blog, you will find that your duties to manage for it can get overwhelming. We recommend that you plan out what you want to have on your blog on a daily basis, weekly basis, monthly basis, quarterly basis and annual basis. Here are some of the things you will need to [...]
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 [...]
Social Media To Promote Your Business
World renown 80′s rapper MC Hammer has come a long way since fading into the sunset many years ago with his rapping career. Little did we know that he has since built up a multimillion business based on using social media. With his still powerful brand name, he was able to reinvent himself into successfully [...]
Twitter Can Help Drive Traffic To Your Blog
Social sites like Twitter can help drive traffic to your blog immediately. I found a video from a blogger who uses a third party site to shorten a URL of his blog site and can automatically “tweet” out to his followers with one click of a button. The great part of this site is that [...]
Marketing Your Business Beyond Your Blog
You may have heard that all the rage is blogging and your business should be blogging and not only that, but blogging should be all that you need to market your business. It must be apparent by now, blogging, social media marketing, print advertising, radio spots, coop advertising all work together to get the word [...]
Using Social Networking as a Business Tool
World famous marketing expert, Seth Godin talks about the real value of social networking. Social networking as used in the context of communicating with others with the goal of getting more business is debatable. Check out the video below and see if you can apply the principle of “true” business relationships online as opposed to [...]
Communication With Your Customers Using a Blog
One of the greatest things about blogging is that it gives you the ability to communicate directly with your customers. A blog, being a web-log, allows the visitor to the blog to make comments to the blog owner to give immediate feedback for the current post. Then, at the choice of the blog owner, he/she [...]
Blog Tips – How To Get People To Your Place of Business
Want to get people to your place of business now? Businesses that have a physical location have to get the word out in many marketing channels at the same time. Blogs are one marketing channel that must be maintained on a regular basis. Before you even open your doors for the day, make one post [...]
Facebook Makes Announcement On New Commenting Service
Well, it is not enough for Facebook to dominate the social media platform, now they are making their attempt at making their blog function as close as a blog as possible. On the website www.cnet.com they have found out that Facebook is planning on launching a third party commenting system that will enable subscribers to [...]
Social Media Influencers and Your Blog
By now, you should know that your blog, in order to be successful at promoting your business, should be connected to Google, Twitter, and Facebook. As mentioned in previous posts here, you blog is also a social media tool. But if you connect the power of the additional social sites, Twitter and Facebook, you exponentially [...]
RSS Feeds Explained
As mentioned earlier, RSS feed stand for real simple syndication. It is a way for someone to subscribe to a particular blog so that when anything new gets inserted into the blog, the subscriber gets notification of it. Here is a video that explains the process in simple to understand terms.
