How to Boost Your Business With Blogging!

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 at 2:29 am

Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.

Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors.

Here are some advantages:

-Word-of-Mouth.
In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.

– Awareness and loyalty.
Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.

– Feedback.
Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers concerns.

– Community halo-effect.
Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.

For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.

Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.

For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.

If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your companys business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.

1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the dos and donts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.

2. Setup several test blogs right away.

If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.

1. Study blog design.

Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the companys identity and needs.

2. Choose a topic.

Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.

3. Remember the following safety measures in blogging:

– legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;

– corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;

– create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;

– avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;

– make content updated, relevant and fresh;

– reinforce the companys core values; and,

– encourage employees to use it.

4. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.

5. Begin marketing.

6. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.

7. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the companys identity.

8. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.

9. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.

10. Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.

Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:59 am

Comments (3)

Many people wishing to start a blog get “put off” by the amount of information on the internet that applies mainly to people wishing to blog for monetary reasons rather than for simply blogging for the love of writing and sharing their life and passions.

This is unfortunate for blogging generally because the initial idea of blogging is writing regularly about something that you are passionate about or as a record of your daily activities for those you love and want to keep a record of your daily life for.

Back in the ‘olden days’ my Mother kept a diary and she wrote in it every day of her life bar the last three months of her life when the cancer got too bad for her to do so any more. Since her death, I have enjoyed reading of her daily life and thoughts of her family and world events as she saw them.

She was a remarkable woman in so many ways and it’s interesting to know that so much of what she thought would happen as events occurred around the world have actually come true. She was a perceptive and caring Australian with a strong perception of what it meant to be a Mother and a community oriented person. But if she hadn’t kept a diary and wrote so succinctly and thoughtfully, I may have known this but her Grand kids wouldn’t have known the strong woman who was their beloved Nana.

She had a wonderful sense of humour and to see some of her comments in writing with her ‘little asides’ made me laugh all over again because I could visualise her face as if she was saying it and these made me laugh again.

The grand kids knew her as a kind, loving and spoiling Grandmother who loved to cook and lived on a farm with the sheep, cows, dogs and chooks (chickens). This was special indeed for youngsters, but as they have now grown up, they really appreciate her dedication to her family, the Australian bush and the community she was a part of. But because she has passed on, the only way they can know her as a person, is through her writing in her diaries.

Blogs don’t have to be about anything in particular but can be about everything in general.

A blog can be about whatever is important to you. If you don’t want to make the blog readable by everybody, then keep it private. Because you elect to keep it private under a password protected ‘lock’ means you and you alone will be able to access it from anywhere in the world that has an internet connection.

A blog can be as private or as public as you want it to be.

You as the blog owner get to decide precisely what it is you want.

Or if you are a member of a sports team, you and your team mates may want to have a team blog where everyone gets to blog their thoughts and feelings or club notes for everyone to read and get. This is easily done once again with the use of a team password. And lets face it, it saves cutting down more trees to send out a weekly newsletter! So blogging is also good for the environment.

My brothers family has come up with a unique way to blog that suits his family. He lives in Australia and his oldest daughter has taken up a job in Peru. His second daughter now lives and works in Scotland so they are a very International family. Instead of writing heaps of emails, they blog their information to each other and they set-up a suitable family phone conference time via Skype once a month. So, with a blog you have designed to meet your needs, you are never far from home.

A blog is whatever you the blogger make it to be. Enjoy and happy blogging!