10 Easy & Fast Ways to Promote Blog Posts
Maybe you haven’t even started to build your blog and you don’t have any content yet. Content is the easy part because you can easily outsource it so a professional writer. However, if you don’t use that content properly, you’ll never see the results you want from your blog posts. Here are 10 easy and fast ways you can promote your blog posts and drive new traffic to your website. Share on Twitter The easiest thing you can do, especially if you’re using WordPress, is share your content on Twitter. If you don’t already have a Twitter account, you should …
5 Types of Posts Every Business Blog Needs
Blogging for personal reasons means you can write about just about any topic under the sun, but if you’re writing blog posts for a business blog, you don’t have that kind of freedom. Business blogs have a defined purpose and that is to encourage visitors to convert and make a purchase from the business operating the blog. But different types of content make different groups of buyers convert. Every business blog needs to feature content that will appeal to visitors in each of the 5 stages of the buying process in order to have the best chance at turning visitors …
5 Top Resources for Bloggers to Build a Business
When you are trying to build a business as a blogger, it’s important that you are utilizing all of the best resources at your disposal. With the world of influence marketing constantly changing and evolving, you need to stay current on the trends. You can do this by keeping up with top influencers in your niche as well as those that are savvy about the current market for influencers. This is because they can help you keep up to speed on the latest trends and what could be of use for you professionally. In order to stay competitive as a …
Top 7 Tips for Writing Attractive Web Copy to Drive Sales
Any good website, whether for a single owner or a company, should provide plenty of benefits for the brand, company or entrepreneur. It should inform the customer of the services or products offer and tell them why you’re better than your competition. Of course, any good website will also draw in plenty of traffic and create sales. When a website is created properly, it will rank well in search engines, gain exposure on social media and make your company or personal an expert in your field. However, when it’s not properly created, it won’t do any of these things and …
DIY Your Blog vs. Outsourcing to VAs, Writers and Others
As a small business owner, running your business, your website and your blog can become overwhelming very fast. Not everybody is great at writing content or designing everything necessary for a successful blog. Even though it may be less expensive to work on your blog yourself, it may take up more of your time and you may not be an expert at everything necessary. Saving money by cutting corners isn’t always going to really save you in the long run. You can take advantage of the blogging opportunity without spending your entire day trying to come up with fresh content. …
The Big List of Blog Post Ideas [64 Post Ideas]
Running a blog long-term leaves you with writer’s block a lot. It’s not always easy to come up with interesting blog post ideas that haven’t been “done to death” and will appeal to your readers. In a stroke of creative genius, we came up with 64 blog post ideas that can be returned to again and again for fresh, interesting content on your blog (actually, we consulted a ton of other big lists, picked the very best topics, and put our own spin on them). We’re not going to waste a lot of time explaining why you need interesting, readable …
What Shallow Content Really Does to Your Blog
Running a successful online business these days requires a solid blog. If you want to draw in a large number of visitors, even just in a local market, you need the right type of blog content. Just like shallow people can only be tolerated for a short time before they lose our interest entirely, shallow content won’t cut it and will only take away from the potential value of your blog. When you provide shallow content it can ruin your reputation, turn visitors away and stall your growth. Content is simply too important to provide anything less than the best …
What Can You Blog About On Your eCommerce Website?
Sometimes, we lose our mojo and struggle to come up with new things to blog about, especially for an ecommerce website. If you’re online shop has a blog, you need to know how to come up with new subjects when you have a case of writer’s block. There are plenty of things you can blog about. Here are just a few great choices to get you started and jump start your creativity. Your Products Of course, one of the things you can blog about is the products you carry. You can provide lists featuring your products, tips for using the …
Marketing Your Blog with SlideShare
Making your blog successful takes time, effort and creative marketing solutions. SlideShare provides an interesting way to market your blog outside of the normal social media choices, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube. What is SlideShare? SlideShare has been ranked at one of the top 200 most visited websites for a while now. It receives a ton of traffic from business owners and it’s one of the largest sites for content sharing when it comes to business professionals. The website allows users to upload and view infographics, PowerPoint, and other types of presentations. People from all over the world …
Writing Amazing Headlines That Make People Click [Quick Read]
What made you click on this article? The headline probably had something to do with it. Right away, the headline told you what the post would be about and provided some extra information in brackets. Imagine if the headline had been How to Write Headlines That Get More Clicks. Would it have appealed to you as strongly? Writing amazing headlines that make people click is less of an art and more of a science. That is, we’ve figured out the formulas that seem to work and those that definitely don’t. Steer clear of clickbait Surprisingly, many bloggers and writers are …
