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A corporate blog can do all of that for you, if you do it right. You can also spin your wheels and experience a big puff of disappointment, if you just go by the seat of your pants. So, the problem is: you want a corporate blog, but just don't know how to go about it. You also don't want to spend extra time or money in the process.
Corporate blogging can be fun
Unlike a regular, static web site, a blog is informal, intuitive, short by nature, and even humorous. There is more than enough stuffy, boring monologue already in all the technologically oriented websites. You can reach your business goals by using a blog, and enjoy it at the same time.
Corporate blogging is worth it
A huge advantage of blogging is that you can interact with your customers in an informal manner. People tend to be more open and forthright if they are writing in a blog, and you can learn an enormous amount from them. You can find out what their concerns are, what frustrates them, what they need and so on.
By checking your statistics in the blog Cpanel, you can learn how they found out about you, which keywords they used to search for you, how long they visited, which pages they visited, and more. This is enormously helpful because it is much closer to real time than with a regular static web site. You can learn the same things on a regular site as well, but it is not nearly so revealing as with a blog.
Corporate blogging also enables you to build your brand in the marketplace. By making use of frequent, interesting, relevant and attention grabbing posts, your brand name will soon be all over the internet. The search engines, such as Google seem to favor blogs because pages from a blog are indexed and spidered much more quickly. They also can receive a very high ranking when people are searching for information.
For example, suppose your company focuses on hedge trimmers. If you know the right strategies, you will soon find yourself in the enviable position of number one or two in the search engine results. What this means is that when somebody types in something about hedge trimmers, your blog post will be one of the first choices presented in the results page. Everybody wants to be in that spot, and you just did it without much extra effort at all! But, you need to know how!
How do I start blogging?
So, you keep hearing about how I need to create a blog, I need to get into corporate blogging, and you want to find out how to start blogging in the best possible manner.
There are many great platforms in the marketplace that can provide services to get you going. Some are free, some are very expensive and some are in-between. You should most definitely avoid a completely free service for a variety of good reasons. One very good reason is that all the hard work you put into gaining all the high search engine results will not actually belong to you; it belongs to the hosting company. There are other reasons as well, but you get what you pay for, mostly.
Check out blogs that you like and find out how they do it. Here is my blog, it is a sort of hybrid between a personal blog and a business blog. For me, it serves both purposes quite well. I is called Family Stress and Health, and check it out: it is number one in Google's search result for those four words, which are known as a long-tail keyword. In fact it has the number one and number two positions!
Here is what to do
Look around, check out my blog, check out other blogs you like, but make sure you visit this little page I made to direct you to the best of the best. I is called, How do I start blogging? These people are driven business coaches who are in touch with everything that can make your business take off. They are experts at media marketing and know all about the stuff that works in this new media marketplace.
Category: BloggingHow To Begin Corporate Blogging was written by:Author:Randy HoughAdded: Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:26 -0400 This Article Has Been Read 111 times View all Randy Hough's articlesAbout the Author: Randy Hough lives and works in the Upper Valley of Vermont. His eight lively children and work experience have taught him more than he ever imagined. He has a site dedicated to helping with family stress and one about plastic injection mold making. |
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