Blog Tips – Setting Up a Youtube Channel to Boost Visits To Your Site
Here are two videos that explain how to first set up a Youtube channel from scratch. It is necessary to have a Google mail account first before you set up a Youtube account. If you don’t know, Google owns Youtube so your Google mail account can be used as a login for Youtube. In this [...]
Redefine Purpose of Your Blog
As you blog into the next year, make sure you do a “re-check” on the purpose of your blog. Nothing stays the same forever. As a matter of fact, if your blog is not evolving, then it is getting stagnant. By that we mean the same look, feel, same content, etc., is going to make [...]
15 Top Popular Blogs
According to the blog site, ebizmba.com the current top 10 blogs on the internet is: huffington post TMZ engadget perezhilton gizmodo mashable techcrunch gawker lifehacker fanhouse smashingmagazine failblog kotaku businessinsider boingboing Huffington Post gets a remarkable 28 million views per month! Number 15, Boingboing gets over 2 million views per month. Not too shabby. What [...]
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 [...]
When You Blog You Are The Expert
When you blog, you become the expert in your industry. The moment you start your blog, you are considered the expert because of the valuable content you provide about your business or industry. So, with being an expert, make sure you are paying attention to what your customers want. They want honest answers to their [...]
Blogs Are Great for Testimonials
Blogs are great to capture customer testimonials. Here are some ways to capture them and put them in the blog. You can interview a satisfied customer while in your place of business with a short video message of how happy they are with your product or service. It doesn’t have to be more than one [...]
How to Catch Spam Blog Comments
Some of my students recently told me they received a whole lot of comments to their blog and were proudly telling me about it. When I took a visit to their blogs, I found that there is a very clever way the spam commenters are submitting their comments. Although it doesn’t have the “customary” name of men’s [...]
Blog Tips – Promoting Your Blog
There seems to be confusion on how to promote your business blog in the total mix of marketing your business. Keep in mind that you should be always marketing your business. If not promoting your blog today, submit an online ad, or make cold calls or do something. Business owners often forget to do the fundementals [...]
Giving a Free Seminar to Attract New Business
Having a slow sales month? Why don’t you promote a free seminar or open house to get new customers? This is a great “underground” method that most businesses are not using enough of to gain new customers in a down economy. What is great about these events is that it is doesn’t cost much and [...]
Email Marketing to Bring Sales to Your Business
One of the best ways today to attract new customers and also to keep your current customers is with email marketing. Email marketing simply stated is getting both prospects and customers to voluntarily opt in to your email list. With your email list, you can keep your list informed on promotions your business is having [...]
Advertise Your Blog by Word of Mouth
Of all the different methods to advertise your business, the very best way is word of mouth. Now it isn’t just getting others to spread the word about your business, it has to be a strong recommendation about your business that counts. Think of it, simply telling someone that you know about a business is not going [...]
Blog Tips – How To Drive Visitors to Your Place of Business
It is the main objective for a blog to drive visitors to your local place of business. The very design and layout of your blog should guide your visitors to make it easy to find out more about your business and what it offers. All content in your blog should give direct benefits to our [...]
Blog Tips – Getting Attention
Since there is over 200 million blogs online (per technorati 2009), we assume that it is a challenge for getting the attention of most of the internet surfers out there. But the good thing is that, since your business deals with a product or service in a particulat niche, you can eliminate most of that [...]
Choosing A Domain Name For Your Blog
When you own a business and you want to optimize your online presence on the internet, your business name should be part of you domain name. Quite often, you won’t have the luxury of getting the exact domain name because the chance of it already being taken is great. If your actual business name is [...]
