Blog World Expo – Las Vegas
If you are a fan of blogs, both professional and personal, you need to sign up to the upcoming Blog World Expo being held at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas. It happens on October 15 and 16. For more details click here. What I love about this event is you can meet so [...]
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 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 [...]
How Valuable Is Blogging Today?
Blogging is more important than anything else you can do now. Whether you have a business, working for some large corporation, retired, even unemployed. If you don’t have a blog, you won’t have a way to attract attention in getting business, of getting a job if you are unemployed, or even having friends! We are [...]
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 [...]
Planning Your Blog Layout
Before you even start your blog, remember that the domain name is very important. It must be “catchy” and at least one main keyword of your niche or what your business does should be in the domain name. This is for search engine optimization purposes. In planning your blog layout, you should have a clean and [...]
Blogging is a Conversation
Your blog should be a “conversation” with your audience. Keep it fairly short and valuable to the reader and convey a sincere “personality.” People want a real connection with the blogger. This is especially important with a business blog. If you truly connect with your audience, you develop new customers quickly. Check out the video [...]
The Value of List Building From Your Blog
If you want to make money from your blog, whether you are operating a brick and mortar business or online marketing, you need to build your list as an ongoing goal. Without your list, your blog becomes a free information source with no return of value to you, businesswise. Granted, you are still having a [...]
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 [...]
