What Are Blogs?

Written by Sharon Housley


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The second blog we manage is at:

http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/blog.html

This blog is less formal and contains marketing tips, or promotional advice for software developers or online marketers. We found that we had overflow from our monthly newsletter. Generating a daily blog would require very little effort and would assist us in creating fresh content which our readers told us was of significant interest.

The third blog is a combination of both styles and contains tips for small businesses. The small business blog is located at:

http://www.small-business-software.net

Blogs & Your Business

The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you directrepparttar content but let your readers guide you.

Creating a Blog

There are numerous online tools that can be used to create a blog. We found that because of security concerns, it would just be best to use a standard html program. In our case we used Dreamweaver and create daily posts. It's really not much more complicated than typing an email. The content is then sent via FTP to a web server. If you want to testrepparttar 118668 waters there are online web-based tools that help you publish torepparttar 118669 web instantly. The most popular web-based tool is likely Blogger http://www.blogger.com.

Other Advantages to Blogs

While you may initially create a blog for your existing customers, you may find that you can attract new customers by illustrating your expertise in a specific field. There are numerous websites that act as "blog search engines". Be sure to submit your sites to these websites to increase your exposure. This will also help with your page rank and possibly increaserepparttar 118670 likelihood you will receive decent ranking with Google. You can also create an RSS feed in order to syndicate blog content and gain additional exposure.

Sharon Housley manages marketing for NotePage, Inc. http://www.notepage.net a company specializing in alphanumeric paging, SMS and wireless messaging software solutions. Other sites by Sharon can be found at http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com , and http://www.messaging-software.net


LiveCamNetwork and 2much.net Ride the RSS Wagon

Written by Sidney Zombay/2much.net Media & Communications


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Jones claims this will be necessary due torepparttar release of LiveCamNetwork 2.0, 2much.net's live video chat site software, due out later this year.

"Last year, when we launched 1.9, we were not expectingrepparttar 118667 business it provoked," he said. 2much.net is known for paying particular attention to customer support and product quality.

Geena Gekko of WallStreetGals.com, a long-time customer of 2much, said, "I have yet to come across any other company that is as focused on customer satisfaction as they are... on continuously improving and enhancing their technology platforms and related services."

The company's productivity and client base doubled inrepparttar 118668 eight months following last year's upgrade, according to 2much CEO and founder Mark Prince, and he expects similar reaction to LiveCamNetwork 2.0.

"This time, we're ready," Prince said. "And not a small part of that will be using RSS to informrepparttar 118669 media and industry." ###

iSN News | 2much.net Press Releases can be found at (RSS) http://www.internetsexnetwork.com/news/news.xml

(BLOG) http://www.internetsexnetwork.com/news/atom.xml



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