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, [...]
The Key to Getting More Visitors To Your Blog Today
Want to know the secret for getting more visitors to your blog within a day? Talk about current events! Here is a real simple trick. Go to the largest search engine in the world, Google. Type in Google Trends. You will find the top 20 most popular searches in the world. Better yet, go to [...]
Blogging Is A One to One Communication Experience
In the following video below, Facebook co-founder, Sean Parker talks about how valuable blogging is from the blogger and the blog visitor in that it is a one on one communication channel. Think about how personalized this way of communicating online actually is. The blogger, being the author/publisher and the visitor, being the consumer of [...]
What To Do When Building Your List
You have heard about building your email list because “the money is in the list.” Well, that is partly true. The money is really in the relationship you have with your list. What does that mean? It means that you need to treat the subsribers to your email list with respect and honor. You must [...]
Elements of a Business Blog
Here is a short list of important elements of a blog. header navigation buttons about sidebar contact us post area opt in box category listing affiliate ads These are necessary to make your blog effective in marketing your business. Let’s start with the header. It must be readable and have a simple but classy design. [...]
Make An Effective Video Blog Post
Making a video post in your blog is very similar to making a text blog post entry. You need to think it out, make sure you are relevant to your topic, and make it attractive to your visitors so they come back for more content. Here is a video that goes over the basics of [...]
Bookmarking Your Blog With SocialMarker
One of the things that blogs benefit your business is through the built in search engine friendly coding that is contained within your blog software. Blogs make each post of your blog get “credit” as a stand alone web page in the eyes of the search engines. You would otherwise have to make separate websites that [...]
How To Attract More Visitors To Your Blog
Before you expect to attract more visitors to your blog, put yourself in the mind of your customers. What problems does your customers have that your product or service can solve. This is the most important part of marketing your business blog. For the rest of your business blog “life” you are going to address the [...]
Successful Bloggers Are Organized
There are many bloggers out there that have a very well designed blog and have fantastic content, but are not organized. How do you know if you blog is going to be successful if you don’t know where you are going with it? It is by being organized. Yes, you don’t know everything about blogging [...]
Blogs Can Drive Customers to Your Place of Business
Did you know your blog can drive customers to your place of business? Come up with a great in store promotion such as a workshop about how to use your product. Also, offer a free gift just for attending if anyone who comes because of the mention of this event from the blog. The gift [...]
How To Use Blogs For Business
Blogs were primarily used for personal communication between family members years ago. Around 2005, blogs started to be used by businesses as a creative way to let their customers know about their products and services. It wasn’t until 2006 that blogs for business dramatically increased to hundreds of thousands. Business caught the “social media fever” and [...]
Blogs Are Social Media
We hear about Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and so many other sites labeled as social media sites. Many people are not aware that blogs are social media tools as well. Social media defined is a site the provides a two way “conversation” between the owner of the site and the visitor of the site. Because of [...]
Visit Other Blogs
Do you want to be a better business blogger? Go out and visit other blogs. You certainly cannot operate in a blogging “vacuum,” here. You have to know what your competition and business partners blog about. It could give you ideas for what to write about in your blog. You may even stumble on a [...]
Business Blogging
Business blogging continues to be a great asset to any offline business. It covers the best of both the offline and online world of marketing. Any business with a physical location must take advantage of all the ways a blog can help drive sales. Business blogging is great to strengthen a customer base. Now that [...]
Blog Content Strategy
More than ever before, you need to carefully plan out your blog content strategy. What is content strategy? It is all about being on topic with your blog. Remember, with each post, you are making your blog more relevant to the people who are searching for what you provide from your business. Here is a [...]
