Building Your List From A Blog
It is not enough to build a list from your blog with an opt in box on your blog, but also the timely information that you provide on your blog that adds to getting visitors to keep coming back. Many marketing experts may tell you simply to put an opt in box asking for a [...]
Weekend Message – Be Positive
As we are celebrating our national holiday weekend, Labor Day, let’s all remember to keep positive. Yes, I mean positive even in the lowest of our economic woes, we as business owners and workers need to be positive in order to sustain our current efforts at making a profit in business. World renown marketer, Seth [...]
What Content Is The Best For Your Blog
When blogging for your business, you should ask yourself, what kind of content is best to add to your posts? Content, in any form, whether it be text articles, video, digital pictures or audio is all valuable but the type of content and your message should be the most important thing to consider. One mistake [...]
Promoting Your Business Successfully
Although you know you are the ultimate expert of your business product or service, knowing how to promote your business is a totally different animal. Your original business plan may have involved the money needed for the start up, searching and renting a good location, compiling your store fixtures, lining up an accountant, etc. Oh [...]
Back Up Your Blog!
It can happen anytime. Your blog can “explode” if someone hacks into it, you make a change in any part of your blog, or the most common, you simply update a plugin. That’s exactly what happened to this blog. Backup was made for this blog was in an external drive for “safe keeping” but could [...]
How To Grow Your Email List Using A Blog
A very important marketing tool that you can use from your business blog is growing your customer list. You can do this by offering something of value for free in exchange for giving up your name and email address. This is called an “opt in” email subscription. It is very easy to do to upload [...]
How Secure Is Your Blog Site?
Along with having any type of website, including blogs, you should be aware of the security issues that may arise during the life of your site. We found a great video, although a little lengthy, but very worth viewing just for your information. This video only applies to WordPress blogs only but if you have [...]
Email Marketing Can Make Or Break Your Business
There seems to be a strong difference of opinion of email marketing. Some business consultants say email marketing is dying because of a large population leaving that platform and going over to iphones and mobile phone technology. Also, there is a big debate whether email marketing can hold it’s own because people are tired of [...]
Is Blogging Dead?
It seems that blogging is dying with some age groups lately. According to the Pew Research Bureau, blogging among people ages 12 to 17 has fallen about half during 2006 and 2009. In the 18 to 33 year old group, blogging has fallen by two percentage points in 2010, which isn’t much of a decline. [...]
What Is Your Visitor Profile?
Do you know who your typical visitor profile is? When a visitor comes to your blog, they either got there intentionally or by “accident.” Your marketing efforts are working if your visitors are coming to your blog through referrals from search engines with the correct keywords, or from other websites that complement your niche. What [...]
Blog Tips To Attract More Visitors
I found a video here from pro blogger Darren Rouse that gives three key tips for making your blog more attractive to visitors. Enjoy below:
What Is Working In Blogging
The best thing working in blogging your business is to focus on your audience. Don’t blog about yourself or your business for the sake of you and your business. Blog about what interests your customers. When you get down to it, no one really cares about you. It’s all about them. That is rule number [...]
Blog In A Conversational Style
When you write your blog posts, keep it down to earth and conversational. It must be natural and not contrived. People who enjoy reading blogs don’t have time to read a very long post, but at the same time want some valuable tip or thought. Make it easy for the visitor to join you in [...]
Blog Design Is Important
Pro blogger Yaro Starak mentions that the design of your blog is an important feature to help you get more visitors and to successfully monetize your blog. He suggests to start off with getting a free blog theme to start with and then, when you get some money together, invest in having a custom blog [...]
Blogging Takes Patience
Blogging is a publishing form that takes a lot of patience. Think of blogging as an added bonus for your customers. Your customers get to discover the latest product promotions in your store, or get to know you and your employees through the “about us” page. Your customers even get to give you feedback on [...]
