How To Make Your Blog Popular – Part 2
There is no “magic bullet” to make your blog popular. It is usually a matter of careful planning at the start to generate interest from your readers. Add a little creativity on a variety of “stuff” you can add to your blog, along with a little “luck.” Yes, I said luck! When you do trial [...]
How to Make Your Blog Popular
Quite often I get questions from my customers….”how do I make my business blog popular?” Since the main purpose of the blog is to atttract attention and grab new readers as well as retain current readers, that would make sense, wouldn’t it It can be hard and easy at the same time. First, you need [...]
Blogging is Evolving
In my humble opinion, blogging is evolving, slowly but effectively. One of the things I see in the best of blogs is more focused content. It used to be, “throw everything in and the kitchen sink.” This could be in the form of a multitude of advertisements, games, forums, video “candy,” picture albums, RSS freeds [...]
Next Blog Seminar in Scottsdale Arizona
On Thursday, June 24, we are holding a new free seminar in Scottsdale, Arizona called “Attracting More Paying Customers Using a Business Blog.” In it, we will be featuring 4 main topics that most businesses want to know about how web based marketing can dramatically improve their business right now. A week prior to the [...]
Consistency of Posting Content is Important
Whether you blog for fun or profit, one constant remains. You have to post content regularly. If you post twice a week, keep on that schedule. If you post once a month, keep on that schedule. You want to deliver on the expectations of your blog audience. Remember that reading a blog and coming back [...]
Getting Attention with your Blog
According to Technorati, an authority blog itself, it calculates that there are over 112 million blogs through the end of 2009. That is a lot of information! Blogs as you know, are used for personal, business, marketing and just about anything your imagination can conjour up. So far, no none has been able to dissect [...]
List Building is Important to Your Business
One of the most important functions you can implement on your business blog is a customer capture system. The most common form of this is via an “opt in” form. It is the best way to develop a customer list in the shortest amount of time. First, your business has to present a very interesting [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
