World Wide Web Celebrates it’s 20th Birthday
Popular blogs receive thousands of visitors every month. There are search engines whose sole purpose involves tracking blogs and related sites, including Technorati.com for example.
WEB 2.0 and Blogs
Most Web 2.0 platforms will ask you to contribute to the content contained on the site. By having a business blog, you can encourage visitors to add their insights to a page, through ongoing commentary to blog posts. It is possible to interact with these visitors by replying to each comment made on your site. By allowing visitors to post feedback or comments to your blog entries, the blog can serve as a mini community or forum. This is also a way to find out how visitors (prospects) think and what they want.
Most bloggers now include photos and other graphic elements in their web pages, along with text. You can even use MP3 or videos to enhance the quality of content provided in your blog. Online entrepreneurs and marketers are using blogs in many ways, to announce their passions, beliefs, purpose or to pitch their products and services while providing visitors with valuable content and information.
One of the reasons blogs are popular for marketing is they allow users to provide content that is updated frequently. You can post daily, weekly or monthly. The more frequently you post information to your blog, the more likely you are to maintain your page ranking and attract visitors to your blog. The most successful business blogs have 300 times more content than the average blog.
Blog Strategies
From Denise Wakeman, ‘The Blog Squad’, you can learn many blog strategies. According to Denise, the key to a successful business blog is …frequency (at least 2-3 times per week) and quality. Let me share her 4 E’s strategy with you:
- Educate: Write “How to” posts, explain concepts, Questions and Answers etc
- Entertain: Tell stories, use video etc
- Engage: Do polls, ask for comments and feedback etc
- Enrich: Make yourself/your business stand out, differentiate yourself.
In conclusion the WEB 2.0 sites are user-friendly sites that promote socialization, collaboration and community building. These sites are also frequently used as a platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs to introduce their products and services to the public without blatantly advertising them. It gives individuals, like entrepreneurs, the opportunity to communicate with a global community.
Please feel free to comment and let us know how you use blogging for your business! Also, if you need help with creating a WEB 2.0 social networking strategy for your business, have a look at the social media strategy template that Virtual Project Consulting is giving away for free!
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Thanks to all of you who have made comments so far. Blogging for business seems to be a topic that many business owners are keen to understand and to leverage from. Many more blogging posts are coming, watch this space!
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