Social Media Concerns and Your Business
“With great power, comes great responsibility.” Now if you remember the movie, “Spiderman,” how could you not think about the tremendous pressures on Peter Parker to keep his amazing powers only for the good of the people.
The same applies to “publishing” on the internet. With a publishing platform such as a blog or website, there is [...]
Is Social Media Dying?
These days, who hasn’t heard about the new social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc., and many of the video sites that tout being able to connect to thousands of people online. First, I need to ask, how much time do you have to keep connections with, maybe 20 people, much less, hundreds or [...]
Business Blog as Your Main Website
It has come to my attention that business people, especially small business owners ask what is better, to have two sites, one being the main website and attach a blog to the main site or put up a blog and utilize that as both blog and main site in one.
I strongly believe that the business [...]
Three Things Every Business Blog Should Have
For any business blog to be worth the effort to your business, whether offline or online, you must have three main things going on.
Consistent blog posts that are valuable to the reader
An opt-in type of device to capture prospects
Video that is embedded in your blog, related to your product or service
It is not necessary to [...]
How To Blog for High Google Rankings
I found this handy video that explains one way to get your blog posts listed on the first page or at least the top ten in your keywords and keyword phrases. Now this video or technique does not guarantee that you will make number one, but it is a must to see this video at [...]
Social Media and Blogs
One topic that I don’t talk about as much as other bloggers is social media and how many bloggers “connect” their social sites to their blog. I am talking about “Twitter,” “Facebook,” “Myspace,” “Friendster,” and many other sites that you may already be a member of.
Granted, all these sites are very popular now, but for [...]
Blog Marketing is Still Relevant
I receive email from business bloggers asking me if having a blog is still relevant to build either an online business or offline business. I responded with YES! As a matter of fact, more people and businesses are going online with a blog than in the previous 5 years combined.
If you watch TV lately, interviewer [...]
Manage Your Blog Content
It’s one thing to slap on videos, audios, a lot of text content and maybe some affiliate ads on your blog, but most importantly, manage how much of each item you put on your blog. It is important that your blog not be “cluttered” with so many distractions and buttons that the visitor has good [...]
Choosing a Domain Name for your Blog
There are many schools of thought when choosing a domain name for a website or a blog. In any case, there should be three very important things to consider.
1) Make sure words within the domain name is relavent to the industry or niche that you are in. Search engines are going to “look over” your domain [...]
Blogging + Persistence = Money
We have a very simple formula for successful business blogging, blog regularly and consistently.
In other words, don’t get caught up in so many distractions that you forget to post to your blog. Remember, when you start a blog, you become a “publisher” and all the responsibility that goes along with that. What is a publisher’s [...]
