Creating value is key to an online marketing strategy. Most Web sites are sales pitches, and what’s the value in that? Some businesses look at their Web sites like they’re electronic billboards. You can do that to your Web site if you want to, but the problem with doing that is that once your [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about why small businesses should blog, and said that one of the primary benefits of blogging was the ability to reach specific consumers. Blogging also provides a great opportunity for small businesses because many big competitors don’t take advantage of social media. The opportunity isn’t limited to writing blogs, either. Blog advertising [...]

Blogging is one of the best things to happen to small businesses. Why? Internet marketing isn’t so much about being the biggest business in your field, or spending the most on your advertising and marketing. It is about being found in the right place at the right time.
How many times have you eaten [...]

There’s no way around it: blogging takes time. When it comes to blog marketing, one question that comes up a great deal is authenticity. Can a blog authored by a professional writer achieve the same authenticity as one written by the CEO?
Yes. The perspective of the writer may be different, but that’s true regardless of [...]

It sounds like strange question for a business blogger, but many business bloggers don’t know who their ideal customers are. Not knowing your ideal customer can lead you to make serious errors in your blog marketing strategy, and can cause all kinds of grief in the long term.
Knowing your ideal customer will help you fine-tune [...]

What is the difference between a search engine and an RSS feed? Search engines and RSS feeds are two different tools work together - like a set of gears - to drive different parts of your marketing strategy. A solid approach uses both search engine visibility and RSS marketing to get visitors to a site [...]

Business blogging isn’t an accidental venture. The best business blogs look like they’re unplanned, but they’re really the product of a lot of thought about how a business blog fits into the author’s business objectives.
If you understand how your business blog relates to your business objectives, developing blog marketing and content strategies will become much [...]

One of the best things you can do for your business blog is to spend a bit of time thinking about it. Lots of business bloggers jump in with both feet, only to find that their blog isn’t producing the site traffic they hoped to see. In this case, it’s easy to get discouraged. [...]

You want to start business blogging but you don’t know where to start. You have ideas for blog marketing but you don’t know how to translate them into an actual product. You know that business blogging can improve your search engine visibility and provide real value to your customers but you don’t know what to [...]