Welcome to part 2(b) of our practical, real-life, down-in-the-weeds Getting Started Guide to building your own business blog! The Guide is broken down into four parts: Understanding Your Business and Your Customers Picking A Topic for Your Blog (A Good One!) Creating (and Maintaining) A Publishing Schedule Creating A Promotion Plan Part 2(a) was back…
Welcome to part 2(a) of our practical, real-life, down-in-the-weeds Getting Started Guide to building your own business blog. Unlike the many, cursory articles out there on how to start a blog, our intent is a little different. We’re diving deep to give you a real step-by-step guide to get you to success. The Guide is…
If you own your own business, or are thinking of starting your own business, perhaps you’ve heard that you should have a blog. Maybe you’ve even gone so far as to go over to WordPress.com or Medium or Tumblr and get an account. Maybe you’ve even written a post or two. No matter where you…
Is your blog worth the effort? Are you spending hours every week researching and writing, yet getting no comments or feedback on your blogs? Rest assured that even with no obvious tracton your blog is bringing in results. Companies that blog average around 55% more website views, and 97% more inbound links. Writing a blog…
There are more seniors online than you may think and not tailor your marketing efforts toward the older demographic may result in a loss of potential clients. According to statistics, 59% of adults age 65 or older are now internet users, 47% have high-speed broadband, and 77% have a cell phone. Research also states that…
You have set up all the social-media sites you think would be beneficial to your business, yet are not seeing the returns you would like. Perhaps you are not posting enough content to grab your targeted audience’s attention or your content is too long causing your followers to become bored. Posting the ideal content length…
Blogging has been an effective way to market your brand or business for quite some time, especially for those professionals who take the time to develop an impressive, informative blog. Finding topics on which to write can prove to be time-consuming or troublesome if you are just starting out. Businesses should strive to create content…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) requires a lot of time and effort to reach its full potential. Designing your website to be more searchable and noticeable is the ultimate goal. When someone searches for key words, or a specific business on any search engine, you want to be at the top of that search; you also…
A large variety of social-media networks have launched and are now considered an essential key to successful online marketing. If you are just starting out, or struggling while the economy makes a recovery, you may be short of the extra funds needed to pay a full time social-media manager. Below are a few tips on…
Blogs have become a major tool for marketing strategies, and are used by many businesses to drive traffic to their other networks, create authority and, most importantly, create business. If used correctly, blogs can help companies generate more revenue. Below are three very simple blog marketing tips you can use to optimize your online presence…