6 Reasons Why You Need to Have a Blog With Your Website

November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Blogs are powerful marketing tools that can help you reach more customers, establish credibility, increase sales, and share company news without having a huge advertising budget.

Blogs have a number of advantages that make them highly effective in promoting your business:

1. You don’t have to be a tech geek to start a blog.

Anyone can do it, and sites like Blogger can help you create and publish your blog in less than 5 minutes.

2. Blogs can boost your search engine ranking.

The content of your blog is ripe for the search engines and encourages other bloggers who write on similar topics to link to you. Regularly updated, keyword-rich content (not spam) and linking will help boost your site’s visibility and in turn attract more customers.

3. Blogs offer multiple ways to deliver your message. If you’re not the best writer, you can start an audio or video blog and can therefore still reach your customers in a personal way.

4. Blog posts encourage immediate responses from your customers.

Questions, comments and feedback from your customers can help you better address their needs, adjust your campaigns, and react to the market’s changing demands.

5. Blogs help you expand your reach online.

By pinging search engines and using RSS feeds you can syndicate your content online, boost your reach and influence, and allow customers to control their communications with your company.

6. Blogs increase transparency and help you establish credibility.

Blogs are much more personal than a corporate website and because they are regularly updated, customers can remain informed about your business and feel more connected to you. Your blog can be your selling point and can sway prospective customers to choose you and your services over the competition.

Blogs are about communicating and building relationships with your readers. Use your blog for branding your business, building your reputation and communicating with your audience ‘ not just for making a sale.

There are a variety of ways you can use your blog to communicate with your readers and promote your business, while unobtrusively going after the sale. You can use your blog to:

· Write product reviews and link to product pages (consider signing up to be an affiliate)

· Write insightful articles or tips relevant to your audience

· Recommend products and services (yours or someone else’s)

· Post and archive company newsletters

· Share company news and product updates

· Offer special incentives and promotions

· Ask customers to complete surveys and provide feedback

Generating new content for your blog does not have to be a daunting task. You don’t have to worry about writing it all yourself. Instead, you can directly post your company newsletters as well as relevant third-party articles, reviews, and links found using sites like StumbleUpon and Google News.

Remember to include links where appropriate to your own website and product pages. Having a blog also allows you to make regular updates quickly and without needing a webmaster.

A blog is a highly effective tool in promoting your business, so start now

Bjorn Brands is a successful entrepreneur who transitioned from having his own building company to a great online business. Check out his site and see for yourself how his FREE course can help you do the same. http://www.moneyacces.com

How To Make Money With Twitter, Fully Automated

November 5, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

For one of the seemingly stupidest ideas ever released on the general web population, Twitter surprisingly now has an effective way of making you money that is truly an automated stream of cash for those in the know.

If you do a search on making money with twitter, you will come up with a range of ideas including Twitter applications with some being a touch more novel than others. A couple could prove to be somewhat useful for making a little extra cash. But what if you are thinking about making big money with Twitter, do you really think something like a limited 140 character blog post or tweet could ever achieve this?

The answer to that question lies in a system I discovered this week. Before I tell what it is, I will explain what you can do with this Twitter system, that should have even the mildest tweeter interested.

For starters, the big hassle with Twitter is, it takes time to tweet or post an update and time is one thing that is universally in short supply.

Secondly, finding the right folks interested in my topic or business is a hassle because you can’t search on Twitter like you can search in Google for instance.

To top it all off, how could I possibly sell anything to these people even if I could find them, connect with them by updating regularly?

The answer lies with a system developed by a mild mannered geek by the name of Bill Crosby, no not the actor but the professional monopoly playing Bill Crosby. Well at least that is what his Twitter profile claims.

I met up with Bill’s system only a few days ago and when my Twitter account of about 12 months of age, had about 100 followers and about 100 people were following me. You know how it goes, you get an email from Twitter that tells you someone new is following you and think OK, they seem nice and interesting so I will follow them back. Hey every now and then you tweet about something and so it goes. Twittering in a fairly aimless manner wondering how all these people you are following have managed to get thousands of followers while you only have not much more than a few dozen. You begin to wonder, what are they all doing that I am not?

I happened to find a link in one of the direct messages from someone I had connected with on Twitter that had a small link to Bills website, where I saw his Twitter auto pilot video. It all sounded too good to be true, automatic Twitter, set it and forget it. Wow I thought, finally someone speaking my language. An automated Twitter system that would find highly targeted Twitter friends, follow them, have them follow me back and the best part was yet to come. Automated, on topic highly targeted updates. I thought, no way, this can’t happen. How? Well it is true. I will tell where I am up to now, just 4 short days later.

As of July 1, I now have 1,268 people I am following with 654 people following me. I have produced 122 updates and the best part is, no sooner had I set this up and running did I have a new business enquiry from someone interested in my services. They had clicked my website link, browsed my pages and decided to contact me with the prospect of buying from me. Wow again! I couldn’t believe it, less then one hour after setting Twitter on to auto pilot did I have a meaningful contact from a potential customer. What they were interested in was a product worth about $4,000 to my business.

I had been on Twitter for over a year and not much had happened, as I wasn’t sure what to do with it. As I said in the beginning, Twitter seemed the stupidest idea I had ever come across so I did nothing with it.

The automated Twitter system that Bill showed me how to do, only took an hour to set up. His instructions where easy to follow video guides, with a backup checklist. Everything is covered, although a couple of the sites had been updated since he made the video back in April. Still I managed to figure things out and kept going to great success. He claims to be able to get you about 15,000 followers in 90 days and with 500 extra followers I have gotten in just 4 days I am set to end up with about 45,000 followers by the end of 90 days.

Now the really cool thing is, no matter if you haven’t got a business to promote, you can make money by sharing the idea with other people who follow you. Bill makes this really easy to do. I will say that it does require you doing a little maintenance (takes about 2 minutes) a couple of times a week but it seems that this a fair trade for something so time saving.

So there you have it, a simple, easy to set and forget Twitter on auto pilot system that helps you make money in a couple of ways and at the very least frees you from the burden that Twitter once threatened us all with, namely robbing us of even more of our precious time. That is now a thing of the past, thanks to the Twitter auto pilot system from Bill.

By the way, I did upgrade one of the accounts that Bill will send you to, but it is not necessary to do so, as once you pay the small price for his system there is nothing else you need to spend, just a little time setting it up. I hope you find it as time liberating as I have.

The author of this article Greg Gillespie is a social media commentator and SEO consultant, who can help you get your business to the top of Google.

To find out more on Bills system, just follow Greg on Twitter, his link
is www.twitter.com/gtgart and he
will send you a link to the site. Or you can go directly here to
see it for yourself.

Make Money Blogging – Tips

October 25, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Everybody’s asking if they can make money online. The answer is a big yes. In fact there are people who are earning thousands of dollars monthly online. Just take note that this doesn’t happen to every one because there’s a criteria that people should meet to be successful. But you can still find some make money blogging tips that can boost your chances or making it big time.

Almost everyone starts with a blog. It is because through blogs, people have the option to include advertising programs. These programs are very easy to add though these may vary so be sure to read all the Help Topics that you can get your hands on before signing up.

The most popular of these ad programs is Google Adsense. There are other programs that you can also choose from like WidgetBucks, Tribal Fusion, TextAds, FastClick or Value Click. There will be more programs coming out like YPN or MSN Adcenter but currently these are still on testing mode and YPN is only limited to US publishers.

Aside from being familiar with popular ad programs, another make money blogging tip is the importance of being web savvy. Since blogs are a part of the internet you need to have a working knowledge of how web technologies works. Blogging is actually one aspect of Internet Technology. You don’t have to be a geek or a highly technical person but you have to at least understand what affiliate programs, feed aggregators, rss, pings or trackbacks are. If you are not familiar with any of these, you have to stop. This means you’re not yet ready for some serious online profit blogging. What you can need instead is a work around to make yourself understand the most common technologies of the Internet and after this you can always to back to profit blogging.

Tim Yu is a Internet Marketer who owns http://www.InternetBloggingProfits.com – He has helped hundreds of people on Starting Up an Internet Business.

He has recently developed a Free 7-Days Profitable e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your Internet Business . To learn how to start Making Money Fast without wasting your time and losing more money, visit http://www.InternetBloggingProfits.com/BlogSecrets

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