The benefits of business blogging are well-documented. If you are not convinced that blogging is a powerful way to reach your audience, build awareness of your brand and generate significant sales, this is a great time for you to go through some of the archives on this blog and some of my “recommended blog tips” [...]
Tag Archive: business blogging
7 Business Tenets to Apply to Your Blog
This is a guest post from Tom Walker. Thanks for the submission Tom. I think this post covers some important issues every business blogger should address. Let me know what you think!
Blogging is the latest way to make money on the web. It can be done with little technical expertise, it’s low cost, and you [...]
What is business blogging really?
Here’s something I’ve learned from running this blog now for 9 months…it’s much the same as what I’ve experienced in sales when I was out working in the field. Blogging is the highest paid hard work I can find, and it is the lowest paid easy work.
There is a lot of talk about how easy [...]
Are You Paying Attention To Traffic Instead Of Profits?
Why are you in business? Why do you have a website to begin with? Are your goals in alignment with your actions and expectations?
Show Me The Money
Where do profits come in your business? Do they come from “hits” on your website? Do they come from comments on your blog? Probably not. I’ve spent time advising [...]
Why Blogging and Bodybuilding are Both Seriously Broken
Here’s what is wrong with this whole blogging business…the advice most blogging A-listers can offer you is hugely valuable, but if you don’t put things into context, you are WASTING YOUR TIME. Context is everything! Without context, the information is useless, and that is a problem you need to address if blog marketing is part [...]
Why Simple Blogs are Better for Business
When it comes to so many things in life, we over-complicate. Wouldn’t you agree? Don’t you think we do this with blogging as well? We make it way too hard.
We run too many plugins
We push ourselves to post more often than we really want to
We spend too much time on our blog
We [...]
How to Grow Your Blogging Business Exponentially
There is a fundamental sales principle that most business owners do not practice. Most of us have heard of it, but few of us actually practice it. I’m honestly not sure why, but it’s true…it’s costly and time consuming to earn new business, yet there’s a very powerful way to grow our business that’s free…that [...]
Selling on Your Blog Ain’t Hard (The Art of Asking for the Order)
Asking for the order is a key sales principle. In fact, it’s a key life principle! If you don’t ask, you don’t get! This can often come off as a “duh” kind of statement. If you want someone to buy from you, you should probably ASK them to buy from you! Agreed?
But year after year, [...]
The Threshold of Success – Why Most Bloggers Never Make It
Success is a nasty, elusive little bugger, isn’t it? Is there a topic in the business space that gets covered more often, directly or indirectly, than “how to succeed”? If you think about it, nearly every how-to tip, every list of the “best Wordpress plugins to use on your site”, every tutorial on how to [...]
Not One Single Thing You Do Will Make You Successful
In my years in business so far, I’ve learned something simple that I have yet not been able to disprove. I have had the pleasure of meeting and staying in touch with some of the world’s most successful salespeople and small business owners. I’ve had dinner with them, hung out with them on boats, gone [...]