The Idiot’s Step-By-Step Guide To Blogging for Profit

Written by Daegan Smith


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How to profit from Blogging?

Now that you have understood what a blog is and how to get blogging, its time to make it pay. Blogging is a great way to enhance your online company’s bottomline. It is a popular and an easy medium and has potential of reaching millions.

Here are some tips for you to turn blogging into a serious profitable strategy.

1.Customer Interaction: A blog is a good means to keep in touch with your customers regularly. You can keep them updated on new events, happening in your company, new products and services and other developments.repparttar best part is that you can do it more cost effectively and in much less time than other methods like newsletters, customer updates and customer meetings. The elements of interactivity, community and collaboration are key here. Your blog can also serve as a platform for advertising, promotion and even internal communications. One well-known business example is software company Macromedia's use of blogging to keep customers updated on what's happening with its products.

2.Query management: With a blog you can receive and answer to customer queries more quickly than an email. For potential customers it is very important to have a sharp turnaround and you can do that easily with a blog.

3.Link to other sites: Linking your blog to other similar, but not competing, sites is a great way to get some free publicity and traffic for your online business. It is also one big reason why Search Engines will grab your site in their result pages. Ask any online entrepreneur what getting quality traffic to a website means and you’ll know what I am talking about.

4.Get Feedback: Getting feedback from your customers on your products and services, on your company practices and other things is one ofrepparttar 124511 most valuable resources you can build. With a blog, it is not just easier but also time saving for customers to leave feedback for you without filling complicated and mile long forms.

5.Get Google to work for you: Selling ad space is one ofrepparttar 124512 most popular revenue streams for online businesses. With Google’s free AdSense service it just got easier www.google.com/adsense. AdSense allows bloggers to display up to three content-specific "ad units" (boxes that can hold up to four ads each) per page. Each time a visitor clicks these ads, you get paid. Need more convincing?

6.Become an affiliate: Your blog can become a cash cow by usingrepparttar 124513 simple idea of becoming an affiliate for other websites. An affiliate basically carries a link torepparttar 124514 other site and each time some one clicks on that link, you get a small commission for it.

7.Donations: If you are running a blog that people love to read and keep coming back in hordes, why not ask them for some monetary appreciation?

Put on your thinking cap and let your imagination run unbridled. You will surprise yourself withrepparttar 124515 number of ideas that will make your blog less of a personal e-diary and more of a digital cash cow. Blogging is a relatively new marketing arena for webpreneurs, but has immense possibility and potential. Be sure to get on torepparttar 124516 bandwagon early inrepparttar 124517 game and reap your benefits later.

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Promotion Is The Key To Success

Written by David Bell


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Sending promotional items out by post such as newsletters or leaflets can, like email, be very hit and miss. It is virtually impossible to knowrepparttar person you are mailing to, what their circumstances are, whether they are even onrepparttar 124510 net or not and if they really will be interested in what you are sending to them. Again it is better to target specific individuals and groups. For those that are trying to find what may be on your site, but don't know your URL, search engines are by farrepparttar 124511 best way of getting 'hits'. Getting your site positioned high up on a search engine is a highly difficult and complicated matter, but if you get it right it can reap substantial rewards! There are numerous search engines, such as Yahoo! and Excite, and registering with most is free. There are sites that will submit your URL to several search engines, but to be effective, your site needs to be submitted regularly. E-commerce is now a major commercial tool used by businesses world- wide. If you have something to sell, sell it onrepparttar 124512 internet! It is estimated that 10,000 new users are logging onto 'the net' every week and any company worth it's salt will now have a site and a facility for people to buy it's products on-line. The process is simple and quick for customers, just a few clicks of a button is all it takes. And that simplicity means they are more likely to come back again and again! Keeping in touch with colleagues and friends, wherever they are, has never been easier. E-mail can be accessed anywhere inrepparttar 124513 world as long as you have a PC and a modem. The facility can be used to send promotional information, special offers or just a simple 'hello' to customers aroundrepparttar 124514 world. By maintaining regular contact, customers feel wanted, even when they're not necessarily buying your products! And it helps in building up a personal relationship. I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.

David Bell is Manager, Online Marketing, at http://www.wspromotion.com/ , a leading Search Engine Optimization services firm and Advertising Agency.


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