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Category: Blogging
10 Reasons Why New Blogs Fail
Many bloggers don’t even make it to a full year. The truth is, blogging is much more difficult than most people realize. It seems easy enough, keep an online diary on a topic you love and people will read it, right? Wrong. I’ve witnessed so many blogs rev up…and burn right back down. Avoid these … Continue reading 10 Reasons Why New Blogs Fail
Turn Your Expertise Into Dollars Online
Image via Wikipedia Small business owners possess a wealth of knowledge about their industry or sector, and when they share this knowledge with Internet () searchers, it lends credibility to their business and attracts new customers. Blogging is a key medium for sharing your expertise. The most recent Merchant Confidence Index, a survey of 10,000 … Continue reading Turn Your Expertise Into Dollars Online
The Blog Is Dead: Long Live the Blog
How do you define what a “blog” is? Back in the day, a blog was a weblog—an online journal. This definition had connotations of timeliness, of narrative, and of a personal focus. But these days, blogging has expanded. Bloggers may be hobbyists or corporate CEOs. Blogs may be personal or professional. Even the tools that … Continue reading The Blog Is Dead: Long Live the Blog
Five Key Ingredients for a Successful Corporate Blog
Image via Wikipedia So what are the keys to a successful corporate blog? Here are five tips: 1. Content that provides insight, perspective and information. At its core, a corporate blog has to give its readers information they can use to increase their knowledge, learn new things or receive insight. 2. It has need to … Continue reading Five Key Ingredients for a Successful Corporate Blog
6 Easy Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog
Image via CrunchBase A blog is an important asset to any business. It allows you to gain visibility as a thought leader, engages your audience in conversation, and acts as link bait. But you can only reap these benefits if you can actually get visitors to your blog. By now, we all know that content … Continue reading 6 Easy Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog
How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World
Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Though the Internet has no set guidelines for how to provide attribution, one rule is clear: Links are the currency of the Web. If you use someone else’s content, whether licensed directly or through fair use, it is important to be sure to provide a clickable link to … Continue reading How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World
6 Ways to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
Image via Wikipedia In an earlier article, I talked about the importance of blogging and search engine rankings. However, once you’ve got the blog up and running, the next thing to do is to start optimizing your posts for the search engines. Although search engine optimization (SEO) can be overwhelming to the newcomer, once you … Continue reading 6 Ways to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
You need to use social services to understand them
I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter he describes is not the Twitter I know. Gladwell’s central argument is that Twitter creates weak ties but social movements require strong ties. I’ve made more strong ties through … Continue reading You need to use social services to understand them
Will blogging become essential for lawyers to establish trust?
Image via Wikipedia In order to establish trust these days, producing helpful content for your target audience is essential. This per John Jantsch, publisher of Duct Tape Marketing, a leading resource on small business marketing. ...[P]eople today have come to expect to find information about any product, service, company, individual, cause or challenge they face … Continue reading Will blogging become essential for lawyers to establish trust?
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