Tag Archive: content marketing with blogs

Top 4 SEO Tips for Small Business Blogs on a Shoestring Budget

Tweet The Search Engine Optimization landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. One of the side-effects of these changes has been the fact that many low-cost SEO tactics have lost their effectiveness and power. Consequently, a lot of small businesses and professionals today are struggling to achieve their SEO goals on a…

Better Blog Writing: Attract Clients,
Make Sure Your Posts Get Read!

Tweet You want to Engage your Blog Readers and encourage them to subscribe to your blog and become regular visitors. Ideally, you want to attract a large number of hungry customers who are interested in partaking of this written food for the soul, but how can you rise above the constant online buzz to attract attention…

Engage Your Blog Readers with Meaty Content

Tweet You already know that, “Content is King” on the Internet, but great content is what helps you build a community of loyal blog readers who buy from you. Your goal should be to engage blog readers with the highest quality content you can muster, with absolutely no fluff. There is far too much garbage…

Guest Blogging: Just How Important Is It?

Tweet Having guest bloggers post content for your blog can be a great tool to get more readers to visit your site. Typically, guest blogging involves a good deal of cross-promotion, which can be beneficial for all parties involved. Guest blogging has recently become much more common, likely because bloggers are seeing the good things…

7 Content Marketing Questions to Ask
BEFORE You Write a Word

Tweet Here are some key marketing questions to ask and answer before you write a single word of content, if you want to get good content marketing results. When you outsource writing for your blog, newsletter, video or any type of content marketing, be very clear about your content marketing goals. In fact, it doesn’t…

Content Marketing Focus: Lessons from Steve Allen

Tweet Having a hard time staying focused on your business content marketing? Focus-schmocus. Sometimes you start off doing one thing and end up an expert at something else. Life is like that. I look at content marketing as an experiment or adventure. Some things work well and you do more of them. Others, well, let’s…

When Should You Start a New Business Blog?

Tweet When should you start a new business blog? Let’s face it, publishing frequently on a business blog is time consuming. Depending on how swift your writing and blogging skills are, it can take you 1-2 hours to publish a post of 350-500 words, including the writing, editing, linking, adding an image, and updating social…

Is Your Business Blog Sexy?
4 Simple Ways to Get More Blog Readers

Tweet When it comes to business blogging, many professionals forget that there is more to it than getting information out on the page. The appeal of business blogs and sites has a lot to do with readers’ impressions. How can you make your business blog visually appealing, even sexy? Blog formatting is key; in fact,…

Bloggers: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

Tweet Business bloggers: just how good are your writing skills? Most bloggers and those who run small businesses that publish blogs are not natural-born writers, or even trained writers. Most businesspeople studied things such as marketing, communication, or business. It’s not often they’ve studied English or creative writing. Yet it’s becoming expected that businesses have…

Oscar Wilde: Advice on Better Blogging

Tweet You know that your blog is a key part of your search strategy, but do you know how to get the most out of it?  What would Oscar Wilde advise for better blogging? Thousands of blog guides exist, but do they really help or just cloud the issue further? This is what you need…