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Is Newspaper And Magazine Advertising A Safe Advertising Strategy
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Advertising in newspapers and magazines is the safest and surest way to ensure high level of traffic to your website. Going by the recent figures, print advertising rules over all other advertising methods in the UK. Webwindows, a leading media agency, reasons that newspapers and magazines are a tried and tested source of advertising and having been around for so long, they are an important part of the collective psyche of the people. Webwindows further feels that magazines and newspapers are safe methods of advertising because consumers know that in most cases only genuine people would pay to advertise. This is not the case with online the online medium for the Internet offers many free advertising channels. This according to Webwindows opens up avenues for fraudulent activities. Advertising on the web has its limitation according to Webwindows. The governments are taking measures to control activity on the Internet but there are still loopholes and people can easily be taken for a ride. That is why, Webwindows, feels that people trust newspapers and magazines more than the Internet, as far as making their purchasing decisions are concerned. The other factor that goes against online advertising, according to Webwindows, is that the cost of online advertising is going up unabated. That is, if people opt for genuine online marketing methods, they would have to pay higher than they would for print advertising.Given the above discussion it is clear that magazine and newspaper advertising provides for a safe strategy. Consider the case of Webwindows, an advertising agency that makes it possible for small and mid-sized online companies to place a colour advertisement in the weekend supplement sections of seven broadsheet newspapers and important magazines in the UK. The Webwindows page has a collective readership of over five million people every week. So by advertising in the Webwindows page in the newspapers, online companies can reach the right audience, the right market and the key decision makers who can make all the difference to their businesses. Webwindows suggests that if newspaper an, magazine advertising is done the right way, it can prove to be a highly effective tool of flooding your website with high spending traffic. This is because the people who read your advertisements in the print media, such as the Webwindows page, are reading them because they actually wish to make a purchase from the comforts of their homes. So if you are advertising in magazines and newspapers, Webwindows guarantees that in all probability, you would get increased numbers of web enquiries and significantly more online sales. The more you advertise in the print media the better the results you are likely to get. Webwindows suggests that to gain the best results a company should repeat its advertisement atleast three times. Again, if you advertise with Webwindows, you can benefit from attractive discounts and packages and customer loyalty programs also. The Webwindows representatives will also help you to draft and design your classified advertisement for maximum results.
Get Attention From Your Designs by Creating a Blog
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
By Anthony Marsh The Internet has made it extremely easy for anybody who is willing to start a blog and use it to garner attention for what they are selling. From teenagers to Fortune 500 companies, many have come to the realization that writing a blog can attract attention and generate a consistent readership and following. Blogs have become excellent vehicles for communicating news, keeping in touch with a large number of fans and customers simultaneously, highlighting expertise, presenting an introduction to a line of products, and delivering fresh content for the search engines.If you’ve never actually published a blog, you will be amazed at how easy it is to get up and running. There are many blogging platforms available like Wordpress or Blogger. These resources allow you to set up an account without cost and be live in a short period of time. These providers offer design templates that you simply choose by clicking on your favorite. You get an administration panel that makes it easy to add features or remove them.
A blog is really one of the simplest ways to start getting a web presence that is available to everyone completely free. You’re not required to pay for the account, the storage, or anything else. In return, the site might include some advertising on your blog, but once you get a feel of things, you can pay a small fee to get this removed. Or, if you have a little bit of technical skills and have a domain name and hosting you can install a blog using wordpress or one of the many other available scripts. Most times the control panel of your web hosting services will allow you to install wordpress with a single click. If not, you can download it at Wordpress and with a little FTP knowledge, install it in 5 minutes or so. It’s really that easy.Don’t allow yourself to be intimidated by a lack of knowledge of computers or the Internet. There is no need to be technically talented at all to start a blog. As you continue to use the blog, you may want to include pictures and videos which may take some learning, but it still is nothing to be intimidated by.
Deliver The GoodsIn the beginning, all you will need to do to start getting visitors is to make sure that you deliver something that is interesting on your blog. If you’re serious in establishing a web presence you’ll want to have a minimum of two blogs. One that shares news specifically about your company, brand and designs. You’ll also want a second one that covers the t-shirt industry and culture with a few plugs and links here and there about your own products, along with some affiliate links to other t-shirt sites.Many first-time bloggers make the mistake of creating a blog that serves as a personal diary, with random posts on a wide variety subjects. While this may be interesting to a small segment of people, it’s not the best choice to bring visitors from the major search engines who prefer targeted content. So, stick with the subject of t-shirts, and develop your content around that niche. You could offer reviews on specific designs and brands, report sales and coupon codes, offer designing tips and tutorials or an endless choice of content. Use your imagination and you’ll come up with a unique vision for your blog that will get the attention you are seeking for your designs and brand.Try to review your posts before publishing to make sure they are relatively free of misspellings and grammatical errors. Try to include titles, subheadings, bulleted lists, and white space to make the copy easy on the eye. Many readers do not want to come into a blog and see a single paragraph written in poor English, no matter how interesting the subject. It’s just too hard to read.Anthony Marsh is the owner of http://www.popularthreadz.com and a half dozen other t-shirt brands. He is also the publisher of the online resource http://www.teebiz.com, which covers the t-shirt business and culture,
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Start Your Own Blog and Add Some Spice to Your Retirement
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
It’s so easy to start up and doesn’t cost a penny. Thousands are doing it…many of them retirees…and having the time of their lives. How about you?
First, let’s lay to rest the principal myths that are holding you back:
 I don’t have the technical skills or knowledge
 It probably costs more than I can afford
 I’m not a real news junkie
 I don’t have the time to spend adding new items
Hogwash! Anyone with a modicum of intelligence, a bit of curiosity and two or three hours a week can turn out a fine blog and have an enriching experience doing it. And it’s free. With easy-to-follow guides like Google’s www.blogger.com, you can have your blog up and running within an hour. What a great way to keep your mind active by writing after retirement and to develop contacts with others who share your interests.Write on Your Favorite Subject
Blogs are circulated on almost any subject you can imagine. At the end of this article, you will find a listing of several blog directories that will show you the broad cross-section of topics discussed. It will also help you find and view other blogs that deal with the subject you’ve chosen. That way, you can get a better idea of how others are presenting information. Some blogs are simply personal ramblings and diaries. Others tackle serious issues from politics to hobbies. There are no restrictions. It’s up to you.
Today there are in the area of 30 million active blogs worldwide. In addition to personalized diaries, they represent a key source of news, knowledge and opinion. They are stealing readership from newspapers and print magazines. They have become major selling tools for businesses and excellent sources of information for surfers.
The blogosphere is magical. Despite the massive number of blogs in existence, you can attract large numbers of readers to your own. You have the opportunity of competing with your biggest and wealthiest competitors because with this great, no-cost innovation, the playing field has been leveled.
Obviously, it requires a good deal of time and effort to make yours one of the leaders of the blogosphere. The top bloggers constantly research current events and trends and post daily. Some do it hourly to compete with other news media. But unless yours is a news or political blog, there is no need to post that frequently.
You can reach out to literally millions of viewers on the World Wide Web with a schedule of one posting a week or better yet two or three. But you have to be willing to maintain that routine meticulously.
For example, I post once a week to my blog www.retirement-writing.com/blog and include four posts covering news of the publishing industry plus an instructional column in writing and publishing. If I preferred, I could have reduced the number of articles I add at a single posting, but increase the number of times I post to three or four a week. I tell you this only to demonstrate the flexibility you have as a blogger. But whatever schedule you select, you must follow it exactly.Setting It Up
As I pointed out earlier, launching a blog can be simple and cost free. Click onto www.blogger.com to find Google’s do-it-yourself guide. With just the few easy steps, you can create your own unique blog. If you’re unsure of your ability to do this or want your blog to have a more professional appearance, you can choose to hire a professional designer to set it up.
Enter “Blog Designers” on your favorite search engine to find professionals to assist you. I have used Premiss Design (Philadelphia, PA) and My Computer Guy (Tampa, FL) for some of my work. They are very cooperative, highly skilled and their fees are modest.Ten Ideas to Help You Gain the Most from Your BlogContent Rules No matter what else you do to make your blog appealing, the key is the quality of your content. Keep it relevant or you’ll lose readers. As an expert in your field, you should have no problem finding ideas for articles. As an author you should have no difficulty presenting them in an interesting and easy-to-read manner.Provide the Information Readers Want The blog is an amazing place to find information because posts are archived. But it is up to you, the writer, to be sure the information you include has real meaning.Keep it informal The key is to relate personally to your readers, try and keep your copy relaxed and informal as you write. It should reflect you and the way you think and talk. No hard sell even though one of the principal reasons for maintaining your blog may be to sell books (or e-books, coaching, etc). The blog is not the place for heavy promotion. It is more a center for information, exchange of ideas and a link to your web site.Brand Yourself The blog is a great tool to establish your credibility and demonstrate your expertise on the topic you have chosen to discuss.Personalize Your Business The purpose of what I suggest in the above paragraphs is to personalize your business, to create an intimacy, to break down the barrier between the reader (potential buyer) and you (salesperson). The result should be a greater degree of confidence on the part of the reader for your integrity and knowledge.Offer Interactivity Make sure your blog offers your readers the chance to comment on your post. I also encourage readers to send in questions on any aspect of writing, publishing or promoting either through a post or by writing to one of my e-mail addresses charles@retirement-writing.com. We try and answer within 24 hours.Send Potential Buyers to Your Web Site Mentioning your products in places where they relate to the subject you are writing about is fine. But keep it soft sell, and refer your readers to your web site for the heavy push. You can promote on your blog, but do it with a light touch, not a hammer. As an example, when I moved a large box promoting my new book The Writer Within You from the main section of my blog, decreased the size and boldness appreciably and relegated the promo to a column on the side of the page, sales increased. That may conflict with many of advertising’s basic premises, but the blog is a unique place where readers are looking for opinion and information.Post Often Regardless of how difficult it may be to add content continuously to your blog, it is essential if you are to keep readers coming back. Major blogs update throughout the day. But this isn’t necessary if you aren’t aiming your blog at news junkies. Three times a week is a very comfortable schedule. I post a new blog weekly.Don’t Wander People reading your blog are specifically interested in the subject you cover. Don’t wander off to other issues. Stay on topic. However, whenever you can, hook your topic to some current happening to make it even more interesting to your reader. The hook may be the result of an event of major importance, it may be the weather, a holiday, whatever. But it must be relevant.Become Active Now that you are a member of the blogging community, participate actively. Make a list of blogs that relate to your topic, and periodically view them and post comments. (Find them by perusing the list of blog directories at the end of this article.) As you participate, you’ll find your own blog will gain more attention. Having your name on a comment in a highly successful blog with a wide audience will motivate a portion of that blog’s readers to see what you are all about.
Follow these suggestions and when you become more skilled, you can install an RSS feed and even bookmark some of your posts with sites like Digg or Del.icio.us.
To help you locate blogs that cover your subject, try these blog search engines.
www.blogsearch.google.com,
www.globeofblogs.com,
www.blogcatalog.com
Visit the web site of Charles Jacobs, author and book coach, for free articles and e-books http://www.retirement-writing.com. His latest book “The Writer Within You” received six awards as one of the Best Books of the Year. Learn more and buy it at http://www.retireandwrite.com.
Advertising âThe art continues
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Advertising adds a personality to the business and its product. The advent of modern technologies has made the rural population more techs âsavvy than the urban population. Advertising, by painting on the walls, to spread messages are no more appreciated. Today with the penetration of mobile phones, cable television, with a better research technique in advertising, it follows the right strategies and initiatives to deliver the right message to the right consumer.
The small villages and towns that ones thought to be just a dot on the map are attracting attention of MNCâs .Television advertising which still holds a major share in spite the growth of internet and other media is the most leisure and preferred activity and so every ones first choice is still the television advertising.
Newspaper advertising is one of the most common forms of print advertising which has been effective for small businesses as well as services which targets the community through readership and circulation. The main disadvantage is that it gets cluttered and gets lost with the competitors ads. Magazine is a better form of print advertising as the readers are in a relaxed state of mind ,they can even save your ad and return as many times as they wish, to your printed ad.
In airport advertising the viewer ship has no escape route which is focused and compelling too has diverse target consumers from corporate leaders to decision makers that makes it the most interesting and challenging platform all over the world. New concepts and advanced design technology has changed the airport environment. Airport advertising has increased the airport revenue apart from aviation.
As the consumer steps out of his home or office their strikes outdoor advertising scooping off with its targeted messages. Outdoor advertising needs a low budget with small crew to start with, it has a quick response, reminds too often about their service. Mobile billboard trucks provide flexibility of location and time, even on traffic jams and remote parts of the town.
If radio advertising does not reach its target audience than itâs of now use, it still appeals a large audience even other media options available. It creates a lasting impression as its played repeatedly over specific time period but it is difficult to reach the target audience who does not listen to radio that is a major disadvantage attached to it. Radio advertising has greater return on investment as it reaches the right people at right time with right message at right cost.
As the consumers are getting more and more aware of different products and businesses worldwide, the advertiser has to be a step ahead anytime âanywhere. For more information about us visit this site: www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com
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Tips To Own an Influential Business Blog
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
A blog is nothing more than a personal diary if nobody reads it, comments on it or makes use of the provided content in it. Especially, in case of a business blog which is written with the purpose of diverting huge traffic to the website. So, in this article, we are going to talk about 7 most important factors that you need to follow to build and increase the readership of your weblog. Of course, it commences with clear explanation of your blog’s concept, idea and purpose, and from there, the part of promotion and attracting hordes of traffic becomes important for the continuous success of your blog.• Relevant and Quality Content: We all know that in the world of Internet, content is king. Everyone talks about providing quality content but unfortunately, a very few have the vision to actually analyze the relevancy of providing good informative and influential content. The quality of any blog’s content is depends largely on the understanding of your niche and target audience. A productive business blog can be with a distinct audience in mind since it lets you produce unique content catering to your specific audience’s issues, requirements, or wishes and ensures return visits. In addition, focus on staying true and genuine to your audience and stick to your tone, style and topic. • Regular blogging: If you are aiming for return visits, ensure to be smart to deliver fresh content regularly. Always remember that a successful blogging demands good commitment of your time and efforts. Especially in your initial days, when you begin to pull your section of readers, be keen to blog every day and this way your readers will get accustomed to blog. Also, on every time adding a new topic, ensure to set up your blog to ‘ping’ blog tracking sites such as pingomatic.com. This will send notification to everyone about your new post. • Blogosphere Participation is inevitable: This is all about sharing and gaining. All you have to do is post comments on other people’s business blog that share the same audience and subject. Moreover, while posting a comment on other’s blog, also paste your blog URL and your email address. • Include keywords in your post: Try to include the most sought after keywords in your titles, links and blog posts so that your blog becomes search engine friendly, ensuring extra traffic. Even with the hot links of your posts, use the relevant keywords such as ‘new marketing techniques’. And lastly, for major resource like Technorati, add rel=”tag” in your linking code for indexing. • Blog directory submission: Extremely important! Along with all search engines, ensure to submit your business blogs to popular blog directories such as blogwise, blogcatalog, or bloghub since these online directories are hunted by many. You may also try sticking to few free or inexpensive traffic exchange sites like blogexplosion or blogclicker. Such sites let you earn guaranteed visitors through the “surf member sites” function.
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5 Types of Business Blogs
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Before you even start creating your blog you need to be clear on what kind of content that your prospects and customers want and have need of.
Then you can start to figure out how you’re going to “package” this content. What I mean by that, is how are you going to present the information – what type of blog are you going to have?
Although blogs are as individualistic as each business is, there are 5 common types of blogs that businesses use:
1. consultant blog
- usually is one person sharing their opinions, observations and advice
- a way to highlight your expertise in a specific area and build an active readership who trust you to guide them
- used by service-based businesses such as professional organizers, marketers, coaches, financial planners and so on
2. specialty blog
- written by one or more contributors who focus on a subject of shared interest (i.e. weight loss, spiritual practices, golf, animal lovers, car collectors)
- builds an online community and encourages connection and interactivity
- used by businesses that service that particular common interest in some way
3. feature blog
- showcases creative type of business
- can have lots of pictures of recent projects, video clips, audio clips of songs/music, links to an online store, information and sign up for events
- used by artists, designers, musicians, performers, illustrators, authors, speakers, custom furniture makers, auto builders
4. industry blog
- usually are companies that specialize in a very narrow area of their industry and often sell to other businesses
- provides information on anything that impacts the industry: trade shows, materials, new product lines, equipment innovations, industry news and shipping news
- used by manufacturers, engineering, construction, insurance, machinists and so on
5. tourist blog
- features the local area with lots of pictures and information showcasing the area
- a way to provide information for people visiting, such as: updates on upcoming events, local weather, favorite places to visit, FAQs and so on
- used by tourist attractions, water-sport companies, fishing guides, ski hills, art, music and film festivals, bed and breakfasts, and many other similar types of businesses
Take some time to figure out which type of blog would serve the information needs of your target group and the needs of your business the best.
But don’t forget to make sure it’s also something that you connect with and feel comfortable promoting and doing on a regular basis – as a blog is definitely a commitment for you!
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Easiest Method is to Make Money Through Blogging
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
There are many ways to make money online and one of the easiest method is to make money through blogging. Most people make money through recommending affiliate products. In this article, I’m going to show you two other rarely known yet lucrative types of business models that you can use to make money through blogging.
The first and most widely used method to convert your blog into a profit generator is to sell advertising to various companies and brands who wish to reach your blog’s readers.
But how do I find sponsors for my blog?
I’m glad you ask. Here’s how.
If you are blogging with the objective of selling your ad space, there are two essential methods that you can use to recruit sponsors who are willing to advertise on your site.
The first method is the easiest method. You can make money blogging by selling your advertising space through Google’s Adsense program. For more details go to: www.building-blog-empire.com the benefit of Adsense program is that it requires relatively little effort on your part to set up the ad and start making money. However, the disadvantage is the earning potential may be lesser. Many bloggers have reported that they make less money through this method.
The second method is to sell advertising directly to companies who are interested in putting banner ads or sponsored links on your blog. This method can be time consuming and it requires your effort to look for these sponsors. But it is often fairly lucrative. If you have a lot of contacts in the industry related to your blog, you can contact these people and strike a deal with them.
The most severe setback with this model is that you frequently have to attract quite a sizable readership before you can catch the attention of corporate advertisers. This can mean you have to do many months of work before you can start making money this way. During this period, using Google Adsense is a side income for you.
The second type of money making blog is one that assists one single brand to improve its image by forming positive associations between the blog and the brand in the mind of blog’s readers. Both business models can make a lot of money, especially if you have a devoted mind for marketing.
As blogging develops into a more and more profitable business, many well-known companies are considering how they can be part of this movement. One way that companies are leveraging on the blog movement is by having blogs that represent something like a friendly face for their corporation. Often, a company will engage an reputable blogger to build a blog designed exclusively to appeal to that company’s customers and to form positive associations with the brand in consumers’ minds. Many bloggers have been approached by companies and are offered quite a large sum of money for this kind of engagement.
How To Get Traffic to Your Blog
No matter what your blog is about, in order for it to be successful, you need to have a steady and stable flow of traffic to your blog so as to profit.
There are just too many issues to consider when it comes to getting traffic, and often people that are able to create traffic to their blogs are known as masters of the internet. For can visit to: www.blogers-guide-to-profit.com the truth is that creating traffic to your blog is simpler than you think. It just takes some creative thinking from you and a few hours a day of unashamed promotion.
The most excellent way to obtain traffic to your blog is by using free promotional methods. The key is to have something on your blog that is worth checking out when visitors get there. There are probably millions of blogs out there and even if you manage to bring traffic to your blog, they are not going to stay at your blog for long unless there is a compelling reason for them to do so. Therefore, before you even begin creating traffic to your blog, you should first think of a free promotion that can entice people to remember your blog and visit your blog again.
The first step you can do to get traffic to your blog is by joining all the forums and social networks related to your niche. If you have a blog that is related to dating advice, make sure that you join all the dating forums you can find on the web. Just go to Google and type “dating forum” and you are likely to find many of them. Check out their Alexa ranking to make sure it is a forum with high traffic. Don’t waste your time on forum with little traffic.
Blogs as a Social Bookmarking Platforms
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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Blogs offer countless opportunities for launching your business into the social media networks, and they can be designed as an extension of an existing website, or simply stand alone. Blogging is moving far beyond the casual journal style of the initial growth stages, allowing businesses and large companies to develop a fresh identity.
Blogging culture allows you to take part in a conversational style of marketing, reaching hundreds and thousands of visitors on a daily basis, and even creating a following. Providing high quality content is an important component of your blog; without good articles and content, your readers will simply move elsewhere.
A blog can be used as a platform for your social bookmarking efforts since each and every link to an article can be shared independently. This is why you need to implement a social bookmarking badge or link on your site, since the times that you are not independently marketing yourself, another visitor may go ahead and do it for you!
Blogs are an easy way to break apart your website into different subjects and categories. Even a well-organized website can be limited when it does not offer comments or space for feedback. While many websites are being designed in this way, the benefits of launching a blog along with your site are a valuable opportunity to generate higher readership.
Blogs also give you an option to implement an RSS subscription service. Since many people simply do not have the time to visit multiple sites in a given day, an RSS feed can deliver new content to their e-mail box or other RSS reader. This gives you a chance to share the link with each and every subscriber, and every time you publish, you increase the chances of someone simply submitting your content to a social bookmarking site or network.
SETTING UP YOUR BLOG TO BE SOCIAL MEDIA FRIENDLY
Your blog may be setup through a variety of services including Blogger, WordPress, or TypePad. Whichever format you choose, it’s a good idea to look for widgets and code that can add social bookmarking buttons to the site immediately. Remember that this makes it very easy and efficient for your readers to start submitting something they read to multiple social bookmarking networks and search engines; all you have to do during these stages is provide quality content on a regular basis, and work on generating a large amount of traffic. Traffic will build on itself, and the more-established your blog becomes, the higher the chances that it will be discovered.
As your content starts to join the networks such as StumbleUpon and Digg, you’ll notice immediate surges in traffic. Traffic is driven largely by the number of interested visitors who rate and vote on your site, and how valuable the content is to a variety of readers. Not only do you need to focus on creating evergreen and valuable content on a regular basis, but it’s important to make it easy for search engine rankings with the appropriate amount of keywords.
INCREASING YOUR BLOG’S POPULARITY WITH SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
The only way to effectively increase your blog’s popularity with social bookmarking is to spread out your endeavors across multiple social media sites. This may include Technorati, Google Links, Del.ici.ous, and Yahoo! Links where your individual articles and submissions are mentioned either within another blog, or standing alone in a particular category.
Tools such as SocialMeter can help you keep track of how well your blog or webstie is doing in the social bookmarking networks at any given time. SocialMeter scans the largest social websites and ranks them against each other based on how many times your link or website is indexed in each one. You just type in your URL and the results will run a search on each site to give you a final tally.
Badges and ‘chiclets’, the tools that you can add to your blog or website are very effective ways to develop your social bookmarking activity. Your blog’s popularity will instantly increase because you are:
1. Providing users increased interaction. You’ll be surprised how many static sites that make this shift can start building traffic with very little direct marketing. Once the news spreads that you are offering this added value to your website, you can look forward to increased traffic on a regular basis.
2. Making it easy to reach Digg and other social bookmarking networks hat allow users to vote. Voting and rating articles is becoming a very popular activity on the web, and if you write something particularly compelling you can start to create a traffic boost overnight.
3. Increasing your exposure naturally in the social networking hemisphere. Social networking and bookmarking gives you a chance to increase your exposure tenfold; visitors who find an article worth sharing will help you reach a much more targeted and refined audience than simply publishing a website and hoping to get readers. You will be delivering your news and information with a much stronger reach.
In addition to promoting yourself on social bookmarking sites, there are some effective ways to market the blog itself. Again, this will encourage your visitors to share the ‘news’ from your blog on their own. Some effective strategies for blog promotion may include:
1. Join an RSS submission network. These will help you submit to an even larger listing of sites, all from the RSS feeds that you create. Syndication allows you to reach a much larger audience, and building a steady list of subscribers can increase traffic flow instantly.
2. Post announcements about your blog and website on forums, bulletins, and community boards. When you have identified your specific channels, start promoting yourself with news announcements, new articles, or simply an introduction to community members. Include your link and you’ll easily start to drive traffic.
3. Join discussion groups and forums about your industry or topic, and leave a link to your blog or website in your profile every time you post.
Be consistent with these efforts and they will pay off big time.
Sean S. Sampson provides valuable resources, and information to help the home business owner, and online business owner prosper with their business. For more information about Social Bookmarketing, please go to http://www.makinglotsofmoneyonline.com
Building Your List – How Many Tips Of Finding Blogs To Drive Traffic To Your Blog And Build Your List
November 15, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
One of the best ways to increase traffic, readership, and opt-ins to your blog is through other blogs. It is much easier to get someone over to your blog if they are already reading a blog that is similar to yours.
Search for blogs that are similar to yours by going to Google Blog Search and typing in some of your keywords. For more details www.confessions-followup-marketing.com You will get a list of all blogs and blog posts that are using your keywords. Read through as many of these as you can and make notes as you read. You are looking for blogs that:
* Are written by one person * Are not just a site put up to make money from AdSense by choosing a few popular keywords * Post at least once a week * Have a page ranking of 2 or higher from Google page rank * Are not just personal diaries or journals * Have been around for a minimum of six months (check the Archives) * Are not trying to sell something in every post * Have lots of comments and trackbacks (read through the comments) * Contain lots of good, solid content on your topic * Have a picture and contact information for the person who is writing the blog
Ideally, you are looking for blogs that are complimentary to your blog. That means that they are similar but not offering exactly the same information that you are giving to others. Choose 5 or 6 of these blogs and subscribe to their feeds. Read them daily to get a feel for what they are about and who their readership is. Begin to leave comments and to write posts referring to their posts. Always trackback after you have referred to their post so that the writer will know who you are and what you are doing.
If you do this consistently your readership and traffic to your blog will grow over a period of time. For more details www.craigs-list-profits.com Readers like contrast in what they read regularly. If you continue to write good, solid, well written posts about information that will be of value to them, they will stick with you. Be a resource before you are a vendor and you will have readers and clients forever.
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The Importance of Comments on Blogs
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
As a reader, you probably like reading the comments that are left on blogs and perhaps you even leave comments on posts that you enjoy. While you may just like comments, writing to you from the perspective of a blogger, I can tell you that we love them!
Every time I receive an email from our blog notifying me that a new comment has just been left, I get so excited.
Finding out what you think, learning from your perspective, and hearing how much you appreciate what we do is a real boost of energy and your comments inspire bloggers to continue providing their readers with news, fascinating content, and unique opportunities to be part of a thriving and united community.
Commenting on blogs is also about building community.
When you see several comments on a post, you know that people are being affected and are reaching out to others. When you see dozens of comments, well, that’s just incredible!
Commenting is a way for people to contribute to their blog community. For some people, commenting is a cathartic experience, for others, commenting is a way to share insight and to inspire others. Many people comment to say how much they valued a particular post or blog.
Each comment is a steppingstone to something more. It could be a conversation, a nugget of wisdom, or ideas for how to improve.
Many of your comments have resulted in improvements or additions to the blogs that you read, benefiting the entire readership and of course, making your experience consuming blogs more enjoyable and relevant to you.
I’ve heard that on average for every comment that is left on a blog post, at least 1,000 people have read that respective article. That statistic is encouraging and reminds bloggers that their audience is made up of all kinds of different people who contribute to the success of a blog.
Participating on a blog or being a part of a blog community includes activities such as reading, commenting, sharing, or even posting your own blog post inspired by what you have just read. This kind of activity is referred to as social media, a medium that has skyrocketed in popularity much in part to the Web 2.0 movement.
Blogs can be about any number of purposes including a personal journal, a corporate communications channel, online media outlets, product reviewing services, or reflections on the state of the world. To be more even more specific, there are all sorts of blogs, bloggers, and readers out there. There is truly a blog for every person.
To give you an example, my blog is a commentary, news outlet and editorial content provider for the voice industry, specifically people who record voiceovers and those who consume them. Our audience is comprised of professional and aspiring voice talent, voice actors, casting directors, voice over coaches, talent agents, studio producers, musicians, singers, station managers, creative directors, movie producers, and entrepreneurs.
We make a conscious effort to write about news, current affairs, human interest, and educational articles that inspire and motivate our audience and give our readership several different ways to get involved whether as a reader, commenter, contributor, or equipping them to be an evangelist for the industry.
Remember the official theme of the Olympic Games held in Torino, Italy this year?
It was “Passion Lives Here”.
That’s how we feel about the voice industry and we can best express that sentiment through our network of blogs.
The VOX Daily blog is just one way that we can connect with our audience but it is also a very important way that is accessible to everyone.
As the blog is online, it can be visited from anywhere, commented on, and consumed regardless of time of day, location, and even in some cases, language. Anyone can comment. I’ve seen comments from professional voice actors, teachers, fans of voiceovers and voice acting, investors, corporate entities, colleagues and family members of those featured on VOX Daily.
All of these comments have worth and inspire literally thousands of people around the world.
The more a blogger hears from you, the better and stronger their community becomes both online and off-line.
On behalf of all the bloggers out there, I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts with us over the years and with your fellow readers.
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