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Tips To Use Your Blog For Marketing

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A great blog will connect you to your audience more effectively than a dry business website. With a blog, you will have the platform to teach, share, and gain feedback on whatever you choose. This is a creative way to gain awareness of your product or services. You can also use this platform to make your audience aware of what hours you plan to be available. You should focus on the connections you can make to your community, and your blog will spread like wildfire. Research what other bloggers are doing to draw up interest in their rants. Here are a few simple ways to catch an audience that you may want to look into incorporating into your blog.

Humanize Your Work

Use your blog to become human to your audience or clientele. Blogs are much more informal than your business website should be. Here is where you can show your face, and share your thoughts. People are way more likely to choose your business over your competitors if they feel that they have built some sort of personal connection with you. It’s not a good decision to get too personal, because then your audience may get bored. Share yourself, but keep on point. This is not the place for family and friend troubles. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 7, 2015 @ 8:31 pm

Blog Listing Sites: Another Way to Promote Your Blog

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Not many blog owners, particularly the new ones, know about the existence of blog directories. But this is one avenue which need to be fully utilized to promote one’s site to the rest of the world.

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Being a directory, these sites lists blog links and classify them according to specific categories and sub-categories. Compared to the regular websites, blog directories are considered to have more authority. And while they may not be often used by people to search for sites or links they want, it is still a must to do this step.

The Pros of Directory Submission

There are advantages when a blog link gets listed in a directory, one of which is in terms of search engine optimization (SEO). [Read more…]

Originally posted on January 24, 2014 @ 5:31 am

Why You Should Consider Responsive Themes

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I don’t know about you, but you may be getting rather tired of the “responsive” hype. Every where you look, people seem to be talking about responsive design and how web site owners should follow its principles.
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Tiring it may be, there is a reason – lots of reasons, actually – that people continue to talk about responsive design. Now, you may not be a professional designer or coder, but you certainly can harness the power of responsive design, thanks to ready-made themes. Whether you decide to shell out money for a premium theme or not, there is a large range of selections available.

So, here are three good reasons you should consider responsive WP Themes. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 26, 2013 @ 4:00 am

Effective Blog Promotions with Blog Search Engine

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Blogs have proliferated on the internet to such an astounding degree that it is hard to separate the chaff from the grain. There are so many blogs out there that you wouldn’t know which ones are good or which ones are not worth your time. It’s so hard to rise above the din of the millions of blogs that are clogging the netosphere. What you need is a way to be heard and be seen.

There are many strategies you can take in order to make your blog more visible and gain more traffic, which is the lifeblood of any web site or blog. One of the most effective ways to increase traffic to your blog is by enrolling in blog directories. This is a service that can have a tremendous positive effect on your blog. Blog directories showcase blogs so that it can be seen by more people.

What are the benefits of a blog directory? [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 8, 2011 @ 11:52 am

5 Twitter Etiquettes You Should Care About

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For businesses that maintain twitter presence, there is an unspoken list of etiquettes that one must adhere to. These etiquettes arise out of a need to acknowledge your target audience and give respect to all those who interact with you using the medium of twitter. Some of these etiquettes are pretty simple and do not consume much time. Let us discuss these over the following points:

1. Acknowledge those followers who send a message to you. While there may be automated bots that could have been used to follow your account, there is a chance that many genuine followers will use a manual effort to follow your tweets. And these visitors and followers need to be acknowledged to offer them the respect they deserve.

2. If you run a business, then your twitter language must adhere to professional levels of excellence. You must try to avoid language that is mostly abbreviated.  The language being used must be clear, concise and crisp.  [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 10, 2011 @ 7:00 am