‘benefits of blogging’ Archives
How Soccer Relates to Business–Author Linda J Lord “The Pitch”–Virtual Book Tour Starting May 3, 2010
During the month of May, Linda will be interviewed on May 19th at The Business Women - Official Blog. Linda will be discussing her recently published novel that reaches out to business owners, entrepreneurs, and working women who are looking for practical business strategies. Her book “The Pitch” explains how soccer has very similar [...]
Blogging for Business: 6 Ways to Get More Paying Clients
How do you turn blog visitors into paying clients? Although we are moving away from using terms like marketing and client and moving toward relationship building and making connections, you are still in business to make money from those connections and relationships, right? Your blog can actually help you do that, despite what you may be hearing [...]
Why are blog posts becoming a better tool for showcasing your products than websites?
It is because blog posts provide the opportunity to promote, discuss and persuade in a gentle and informative way. When people are reading a website they will skip things and will probably not read pages that are text ladenned. Yet, strangely enough, they will read every word of a blog post, so it is better to do your pitch in a blog post than [...]
What affiliates should I use in my blog?
A lot of people ask me to suggest affiliates. They want to know which ones are the most effective at monetising their blog. I suppose it would be safe to say that I have done a hell of a lot of research on this subject as bad choices can make the difference between a profitable blogging business and bad choices can mean no business at all. It [...]
How to market your website so that people buy from you!
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living. The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to feed his own! I am sure, if you own a bakery or [...]
30 Women Entrepreneurs to Follow On Twitter
I am humbly honored to have been included on the Forbes.com list of 30 Women Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter written by Natalie MacNeil of She Takes On the World. It was a fantastic Thanksgiving surprise! Each of the women listed provide quality content and contribute useful information on their Twitter stream. I’m sure you will find these [...]
To Retweet – What does it mean and how important is it?
A Retweet allows Twitter users to share their favourite tweets with their own followers. So if someone has 10,000 followers and they like one of your tweets and they retweet it, then it will go out to all of their followers, good eh! It is done by copying and pasting the original tweet and sending it out. It's usual to put “RT” plus the [...]
How to really monetise your blog!
In my previous blog "6 steps closer to monetising your blog" I said that you need: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Today I am going to tell you about the next 6 items you need: 1. Products that sell well. 2. A great mailing list. 3. An easy to [...]
6 steps closer to monetising your blog!
I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging. Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme. But it’s not impossible. To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Why [...]
Confessions of a Blogger.
At last my official blog website is actually finished. My intention of blogging for a living has become a reality. Ok, what next? My lovely grand daughters - all wrapped up! The first thing I need to do is to go back over the archives and delete all my earlier muses. In the early days, as is usual for blog virgins, my impression of a blog was [...]
