Last week, I talked about the value of enabling comments on your blogs. Comments from readers are like gold because they can tell you how well you’re reaching them with your message. Leaving comments on other blogs is likewise valuable, not only as a blog promotion tool, but also as a way to keep up […]

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 […]

Business blogging takes time, effort and occasionally, a thick skin. One of the most valuable aspects of business blogging is its ability to put you in direct contact with your customers. Just remember that your customers also want to be in contact with you, too.
A great way to encourage that kind of customer communication is […]

How often has a customer walked into your office, shook your hand and told you how much he has enjoyed reading your print ads? Or that he makes a point of driving by your billboard everyday? Yes, rhetorical questions, but you get the point. There is absolutely no way you can engage your customers, […]

Looking at this recent report about online car buyers brings back memories of my father who sold cars for a living. Dad would have been a huge fan of blog marketing.

One in five in-market consumers surveyed - approximately 20 percent - said they would likely to buy a vehicle over the internet if such a […]

When people use search engines, what are they mainly looking for? Is it products to buy, people to meet, or what? Yes, people look for all of those things, but what most people are looking for when they use search engines is information. And if you are not using the power of […]

If you are trying to run a profitable website, then search engine visibility is crucial to your success. I know that is an obvious statement, but too many businesses don’t take it as seriously as they should.
So how can business blogging help you to increase your search engine visibility? The two main areas […]

A lot of businesses wonder why they should even get involved in business blogging in the first place. Whenever I talk to people about this concept I get a question like this, “Aren’t blogs just written by people that have nothing better to do?” As you can see, blogs and blogging in general […]

Really, with terms like “wiki” and “business blogging” and “podcast marketing“, it can be kind of hard to take the Web 2.0 world all too seriously. Especially if you are a CEO and the only thing you associate social media with are bratty teens on MySpace. But, as is the norm with online marketing, […]

It would seem that most businesses these days are still not getting involved in business blogging. Here are some statistics from an article published on eMarketer.com:

Only 5% of UK corporations use blogs on a regular basis
5.8% of Fortune 500 Companies have a public blog
1.5% of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies have a public blog

I […]