If you consider getting a Business Blog answer first the following 4 questions:
1. What do you expect your blog will do for your business?
2. Do you fully understand your blog’s main difference over a static web site?
3. Can your blog be properly optimized for search engines?
4. What do you need to promote – your services, your product, yourself or all?
A blog can be configured to be a website. Advantage? You have more personal control over the content because you don’t need webmaster skills and HTML programming to put content onto your blog.
But then you still don’t take advantage of the blog concept. A blog can define exactly who you are – and promote a feel that you stand out above others in your field. It can turn a prospect into a loyal customer or client.
But you can’t have a blog that makes more business unless it fills a need and attracts strong, relevant traffic (visitors) first.
To take advantage of a business blog, you will need to make sure you incorporate at least some of the following goals and tactics into your blog planning strategy:
- Continue to increase your web “presence”
- Showcase your customers – and their successes. Yes, use testimonials!
- Display throughout the blog your industry expertise and credentials
- Keep it current! Be the “go to” place for the latest industry or product news
- Share resources such as free reports, audio files or “how to” videos
- Give your potential customers what they want or need to learn or hear
- Connect social media sites to your blog. It’s an excellent match!
Think of your business blog for what it actually is: your voice, speaking directly to potential clients, when you aren’t around. It’s like having a partner who’s hard at work, while you’re asleep!
Give your business blog a chance to bring in new traffic, new subscribers, new credibility and authority – and more profit than you thought possible with a website.
Don’t underestimate the importance of your blog domain name, it should reflect the business name.
Consider whether or not you want to attract readers by branding or just through most relevant keywords or do it both! If you don’t know what branding is check some of our resources.
There are more effective ways to improve traffic to your blog then to your website: a blog integrate distribution as RSS feed. When you create a feed for your blog, a relative simple, one-time process, you might double its effectiveness and desirability.
Nowadays, your visitors (readers) wants fast, easily read content that is punchy and to the point. A blog allows that better than a website. Just look to Twitter success, punchy and to the point in 140 characters!
A business blog allows you to easily:
- run efficient and pleasing to the eye photo galleries
- create slide shows for your products or services
- to display and run videos
- add a new “famous quote” to be randomly generated every day
- increasing your search engine efficiency
- display buttons so that visitors can instantly promote your business across their favorite Social Networks
- and so much more…
It is difficult to think of any reason why you shouldn’t start with business blogging.
Cost? Initial cost is much lower than a business website. Outsourcing maintenance is also much lower.
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