Effective Business Blogging – Are You Guilty of These Three Profit Killers Keeping You From Blogging For Your Business

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The fact is the world of promoting your business has changed and changed drastically.  People don't use yellow pages anymore, I really don't understand why the phone companies keep delivering them.  The post office keeps delivering the advertisements sent by mail because this is one of the few things keeping the post office in business and that is questionable and at some point will change I am sure.  Rarely do people act … [Read more...]

Federal Trade Commission Starts A WordPress Blog

Here is a snippet from a post I found about the FTC starting their own blog about Technology.  Notice the date of the post. FTC Launches Tech Blog on Wordpress March 23, 2012 The first post is written by Ed Felten, Chief Technologist at the FTC, who goes on to say that the point of the blog is to talk candidly about technology in a way that is "sophisticated enough to be interesting to hard-core techies, but straightforward … [Read more...]

Business Blogging – Step 2 – Determine What The Competition Is Blogging About

When you start to consider blogging for your business one of the best things to do is to find out what the competition is blogging about.  I talk to my clients about the necessity to begin blogging about their business because their competition is doing it.  This is when the lights start to go off on how important it is to start a business blog to keep up with the competition.  There are three very important reasons for … [Read more...]

3 Keys To A Great Business Blog Design

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When I first started blogging I had no idea about what would be right or wrong about the design layout of my site.  I thought if I could come up with a cool header picture and randomly attach some links and banner links to the sidebar I would be off to the races. As I have continued my blogging education and paid attention to the how and the why of what some of the top bloggers out there are doing, I realized I had made some serious newbie … [Read more...]