Posts Tagged ‘Monetizing Blogs’

Business Blogging

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.

Here are some advantages with business blogging:

  • Word-of-Mouth. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
  • Awareness and loyalty.  Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them.
  • Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews.
  • Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.

For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL.

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs.

If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company’s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.

  • Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do’s and don’ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.
  • Setup several test blogs right away.

Make Money from Blogs

Friday, April 24th, 2009

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

  • Straight texts
  • Photographs or images (photoblog)
  • Video (videoblog)
  • Audio files (audioblog)
  • Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

  • Online journal or a web diary
  • Content managament system
  • Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

  • Post date -the date and time of the blog entry
  • Category – the category that the blog belongs to
  • Title – the title of the blog
  • Main body – the main content of the blog
  • RSS and trackback – links the blog back from other sites
  • Comments – commentaries that are added by readers
  • Permalinks – the URL of the full article
  • Other optional items – calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

  1. Political blog – on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).
  2. Personal blog – also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.
  3. Topical blog – with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.
  4. Health blog – on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.
  5. Literary blog – also known as litblog.
  6. Travel blog – with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey
  7. Research blog – on academic issues such as research notes
  8. Legal blog – on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.
  9. Media blog – focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.
  10. Religious blog – on religious topics
  11. Educational blog – on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.
  12. Collaborative or collective blog – a specific topic written by a group of people.
  13. Directory blog – contains a collection of numerous web sites.
  14. Business blog – used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.
  15. Personification blog – focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).
  16. Spam blogs – used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.