7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Starting A Business Blog

Written by Priya Shah


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If not, you should either hire someone to dorepparttar research or seriously rethink your decision to start a blog.

5. What blogging platform will serve your needs best?

Deciding your blogging platform is an important step that you should take only after becoming familiar withrepparttar 124604 features and benefits of each option.

The reason it is so crucial is because it can be extremely difficult to migrate an established blog to a new platform once you have started it. Moving your blog can result in you losing your data, search engine listings and readers, so don't take this decision lightly.

Decide which platform will best meet your marketing objectives, time constraints and personal preferences before you make your first post.

According to T.L. Pakii Pierce who writes at "How to Blog for Fun & Profits!" http://blogforfunandprofit.blogware.com, if you are short of time, and want to spend more time writing, then a hosted solution like Blogger, Blogware, Squarespace or Typepad might serve your purpose better.

This might also prove a better option if you want to get started as soon as possible, are new torepparttar 124605 internet, or are unfamiliar with scripts or code.

If, onrepparttar 124606 other hand, you're a control freak (like me) and don't mind spending some time and effort to customize your blog, then a server-installed software, like Wordpress, b2Evolution or Movable Type might be just right for you.

If you don't want to installrepparttar 124607 scripts yourself, choose a hosting solution with Fantastico, which comes with a one-click install of a number of blogging software.

6. How do you plan to promote your blog?

Why is it good to know this before you start your blog? Because it will help you decide where best to invest your time and effort when you need to build traffic to your blog.

You'll learn more aboutrepparttar 124608 methods to promote your blog when you subscribe torepparttar 124609 email course below. Some of these tasks can be outsourced, while others you would have to do yourself.

Decide what you want to take on and look out for service providers to handlerepparttar 124610 other functions so you can start building traffic to your blog as soon as possible.

7. How will you assessrepparttar 124611 success of your blog?

To determine how successful your blog is in boosting your profile or profits you will have to measure your blog traffic and track sales or leads that have come through it.

Planning this in advance will help you take more informed decisions about your blogging metrics, choice of blogging platform and degree of customization you require on your blog.

Understand that blogging is not for everyone. It's just another form of communication.

Don't get so hung up onrepparttar 124612 technology that you end up ignoring more appropriate ways of communicating your message.

Some things may be easier to communicate face to face, in a conference room, or even throughrepparttar 124613 good old telephone.

But if you asked yourself allrepparttar 124614 questions above and decided that blogging meets all your objectives, then a blog may be just whatrepparttar 124615 doctor ordered for your business.



Priya Shah is a former journalist who writes on business blogging and publishes an internet marketing newsletter. Subscribe to her free eCourse on Blogging for Marketers


How to put your offer in front of enough people to make money on the net

Written by Christopher Kyalo


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This all sounds neat and easy to do except that you will need to write quite a number of articles to start seeingrepparttar results.

But as with everything else in life, there is an easier way of doing things. A way of ensuring that your single article or two is put in front of enough people to makerepparttar 124603 impact you need to start generating sales.

Why not use a site that is already generating 1.5 billion page views each month? A site that will not have any problem with you posting personal information about what you do and how to reach you, neatly and conviniently directing some of this huge traffic to your article or offer information.

You may have guessedrepparttar 124604 site I am talking about - Ebay.com of course.

I found Brian McGregor's ebook "The Ebay Formula extremely useful in helping me understand how to use Ebay to drive my traffic and profits. Of Course there is serious money to be made from auctions or by selling something with a fixed price from Ebay, but that is notrepparttar 124605 topic of this article. The point I want to make here is that you can userepparttar 124606 About Me page to put all sorts of information, even if you are not selling anything.

You can get a copy of "The Ebay formula" fromrepparttar 124607 following link:-

http://www.workwinners.com/ezGaffurl.php?offer=ckyalo&pid=19

Christopher Kyalo is a writer/marketing expert who makes money online only by posting free articles. Get his free course at bizboom@freeautobot.com and visit his blog http://big-online-story.blogspot.com. He can be reached at strongwallafrica at yahoo.com.


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