99 Ways To Blog for Businesses

Powerpoint: Introduction To RSS

My friend Anita Campbell has a great site at www.rssnofear.com, and she's recently released an even greater Powerpoint presentation about RSS, for those of you who need to know more about it. Get the presentation here.

Successful Business Blogs Are All About Adding Value

I just had an interesting conversation with a bloke from the UK who sells health products online. He wanted to know how to use a business-blog to sell his products. The only question was... how to do it? He didn't get it. Here's the advice I offered him in summary.

You don't write a blog about your products. That doesn't work. Nobody wants to read you pitching your products, but, they will listen to you talking about the benefits of your products. So for example, if you sell vitamins, you don't talk about the vitamins themselves, you talk about the health benefits from the vitamins.

A blog of that nature will build your brand as the expert and most importantly, it will provide real value to a reader interested in the subject. That's what this is all about. You sell with a business-blog by providing the right value. The only question you need to figure out is what is the value you need to be selling, that's where I can help.

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Small Business Blogging Book

Andy Wibbels is a blogging guru who has a great new blog book out built for small businesses entitled 'Blog Wild, A Guide for Small Business Blogging'. I highly reco mmend this book. Of course, if you want to just get a a professional small-business blog up and running without having to read Andy's book, now you can, for only $999 at Blog4999.com :)

What's Blogwild! about?

Blogwild! is a book about blogging for small businesses. Combining the concept and theory of blogs with the practical nuts-and-bolts, you'll be able to get started immediately. With Blogwild! you'll be able to publish your first blog in the time it takes to watch a sitcom. Blogwild! is published by Porfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group.

Who's Andy Wibbels?

I'm am an award-winning blogging evangelist that has been blogging for five years and teaching companies all over the world how to use blogs for the past three years. I was named "Best Marketing Blog of 2005" by Marketing Sherpa and have appeared in national and international media as an expert in blogging for business. I am creator of the Easy Bake Weblogs, Podcasting Bootcamp, RSS Essentials seminars as well as co-creator of Six Figure Blogging, Blog Your Way to a Best Seller and Business Blog Basics.

Business Blogging & Blog Marketing

Here's another article on businesses beginning to think about blogging, and it quotes my blogging friend Jeremy Wright too! See story here.

Wright, author of the book Blog Marketing, says those newfangled Web logs are the future of business-client interaction.

And their reach can go beyond just hyping your products.

If used right, you can create the kind of branding, and loyal customer base, that companies such as Apple Computer depend on.

Get customers to be passionate consumers, and they'll talk up your products on their own blogs, which could generate hundreds or thousands of hits.

Wright has a friend whose tax-preparation software kept crashing. After a horrible experience with customer service - he was told it was probably his fault - he did the only thing he could do.

"He blogged about it, in a not-so-objective way," he said.

Hundreds of people commented about his friend's blog entry, and probably lots more saw it.

Search Engines Love Blogs - Optimization Techniques

The Search Engine Journal has a good article entitled 'Blog Optimization - Make Your Blog Stand Out'.

Why optimize your blog?

* Increase rankings of the blog on BOTH regular search engines as well as blog/RSS search engines
* Increase traffic to the blog from multiple sources such as social search (Yahoo MyWeb, Google Personalized Search) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, Digg, Furl or Blogmarks)

A blog is just a website that uses a content management system, so most standard SEO tactics apply.

How very true. If you are thinking about creating a blog, you MUST consider one of the very best uses of your blog to obtain higher search engine rankings, because it works.

The article goes on to talk about other blog search engine optimizationt techniques you can do yourself. I highly suggest you follow his advice. Of course, you can always let me build a business-blog for you and I can do ALL OF THIS AND MORE for you for only $999.