Blog Marketing Tips
Here is more blog marketing tips for today. Blogs need to be a necessary piece of any “brick and mortar” business marketing strategy. As a business with a specific location, you need to advertise in newspapers, trade magazines, coupon mailers, radio, and possibly TV. But in todays high tech age, you also need to make [...]
Capture Your Customer Information on Your Blog
One of the most important ways to grow your business is to grow your customer list. A blog allows you to grow your email list by offering them a way to enter their name and email address. Here is a great video that shows how to attract and “remind” your blog visitors to give up [...]
Source for Adding Pictures To Your Blog
If you are searching for a picture to insert in your blog and looking for a free source, check this video out for tips on how to grab a picture from the popular photo site, Flickr.
Make Your Blog An Authority Site
We know now that when you start your business blog, it is for the long term. From the day you put your blog on the internet, it becomes one and the same with your brick and mortar business. You must “breath” with it and make it come alive with consistent content that is valuable to [...]
All Businesses Must Blog
Whether you are thinking of blogging for your business or actually doing it, you must be involved in the online community. Blogging is the way to go to keep your branding going, to get connected with your customers and to keep the “conversation” going in order to make sales and generate a loyal following.
Blogs As Your Online Presence
Blogs are the best way for your business to have an online presence. You could have a static HTML website, but currently there are many limitations to them. First, as mentioned before, there is a lot more work to get a regular HTML site to be “search engine friendly.” With blog software, they are built for attracting search engines. [...]
5 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
Did you know that many smart blog owners are making money just from the blog itself as opposed to what the blog is promoting? Yes! And how do they do that? Well first of all, a smart blogger will make sure that they build up as much as a readership as possible. This is done [...]
How Blogs Enhance Company Image
Here is a video that talks about how a business blog improves customer relations by truly communicating with its audience in an informative way.
Business Blogging
What is the most effective way to “blog” your business? Simply, offer up the best content you can to your audience, who is your prospective customer base. You know your customers better than anybody. You know the demographics, the locale, you know their needs, their problems and how to solve them. You have more than [...]
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 [...]
When to Outsource Blog Duties
Blogs are definitely work and it takes dedication and persistence to keep it up. I liken blogs to “old school” newspapers. Every single day, subscribers are counting on daily delivery of the newspaper to consume their news every day. What goes on behind the scenes is that the publisher has full time reporters, editors, sales [...]
Blogging To Develop a Fan Club
No matter what business you are in, blogging can help you develop a “fan club” of sorts. The most successful businesses are possible by having a solid customer base. Think of the Queen of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey. She has a raving fan club that never quits. She couldn’t turn off making money from her [...]
Blogs Communicate with Your Audience
When blogs first came into the mainstream about 7 years ago, the intention was to carry on a “conversation” between the blogger and the blog visitor. It has never been more true today. Before you even start your own business blog, make sure you understand the overall purpose of it. You operate a business, you [...]
Where Do Blog Visitors Come From?
I’ve often been asked, “where do blog visitors come from?” After taking a look at my webhost statistics and making sure that I know my “metrics” of the quantity and quality of my “hits,” “visitors,” and “page views,” I got to thinking about really, where are my visitors coming from. I don’t think any blog [...]
Stories are the Best Promotion for Your Blog
Everyone loves a good story. When we were children, we loved to hear stories from our mom’s and dads’ before we went to sleep. When we were older, we heard stories told to us from elementary schools. At college, we shared stories with our fellow classmates. Stories keep us interested and engaged. It is our [...]
