Increase Traffic To Your Blog
By Carol Farbe | March 30, 2010
Increase traffic to your website and you will increase your business. But how do you increase traffic? One easy method to bring traffic to your site is through article marketing. The idea is easy but it takes work. It can drive targeted traffic to your blog. By targeted traffic, I mean that those people that read your articles are already interested in your topic or niche. They come to visit your site for more information. There are some paid directories and there are some free directories. The best place I found to submit my articles for free is at Ezine Articles. Read the rest of this entry »
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Best Blogs Develop Writing Skills
By Carol Farbe | March 23, 2010
Blogging is a great way to spread the news about your business. You can describe your products, tell office hours of operation, and even list sales. But some people are always worried how their site looks and what plug-ins they have on their site. Some plug-ins are well worth the effort to install since many become automated. But you can go overboard on this. According to Daily Blog Tips, many people forget that they are supposed to be connecting with real people. Read the rest of this entry »
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List Building Through Blog Traffic
By Carol Farbe | March 16, 2010
Build your list and they will come. We’ve all heard that saying from a baseball movie. But does it apply to your blog? Just because you have a blog set up doesn’t mean they will come and visit it. You must announce to everyone that you have a blog. Then you must keep announcing it so that you can continue to have traffic visit your site. Read the rest of this entry »
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Copywriting Your Blog
By Carol Farbe | March 9, 2010
Copywriting is a way to promote your blog, your business or you. Your copywriting is used as promotional marketing. The purpose should be to persuade your readers by taking that call to action. In other works, you want them to buy your products or services. But you can also persuade them not to buy your products or services through your writing. Read the rest of this entry »
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2 Blogging Platforms
By Carol Farbe | March 2, 2010
To transfer your brick and mortar business online, you need a blog or website. As I’ve said before, a website is static. You make very little changes to a website. You basically put it up there and forget about it. But a blog is completely different. It shows a different aspect of your business. In a blog, you can tell stories of how you have helped your customers. You can educate your customer audience from your personal experience. You can tell of advertised specials and give specifics of how that special will help your customers. But what kind of blog should you go with? Read the rest of this entry »
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Increase Effective Blogging
By Carol Farbe | February 23, 2010
Blogging is a way to increase the exposure of your business on the internet. Blogging is not social marketing. If you want to be social, go to the social networking sites like Face Book or Twitter. I am not interested in what you had for breakfast. This blog is for businesses to grow and expand to the internet. Your breakfast, or mine, has nothing to do with that. Your posts need to be effective through a high impact post with great content. Do you know how to deliver the highest impact with each post? Read the rest of this entry »
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Content Marketing Is Advertising
By Carol Farbe | February 17, 2010
Content on your blog is essential. Whether you are a small business just starting out or an established brick and mortar business that has been around for many years, your content is your marketing. You market yourself. You market your business. Your blog and website are the tools you use to reach your market. You need to stand out from among the 900,000 other blogs post today. Your content is what will make you unique. It is also what will make sales for your business. Read the rest of this entry »
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Saints Win Superbowl In 2010
By Carol Farbe | February 8, 2010
Did you watch the Superbowl this week? Did you see the New Orleans Saints win their first Superbowl title? They worked hard all season to achieve the goals they set out for themselves. Each week they took it one day and one game at a time. They studied their opponents and set a game plan. They put into action what is needed to reach their goal. Your blog or website is a a lot like a football game. Read the rest of this entry »
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Email Messaging
By Carol Farbe | February 3, 2010
Email messaging is important to your growing business. You can receive orders via email. You can receive questions via email that can be answered in your blog post. That’s a great source of blog ideas. But the amount of time you spend on email can directly affect your business. If you are leaving your email open all day, you will know the moment someone emails you. Of course, you will want to go and read it. That can be a time waster. It is better to schedule when you can open your email, go through it and then close it until the next scheduled time. Scheduling to open your email will save you time and help you be more productive throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Increase Traffic To Your Blog
By Carol Farbe | January 27, 2010
As you start your blog, you wonder if it will be the next greatest invention that everyone must have. Did you pick a great domain name? Did you install every plug-in you could find? But if your blog doesn’t grow over a short amount of time, you may begin to wonder why. Read the rest of this entry »
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