Using Blogs for Marketing

Supervisors have started using blogs to help increase communication with employees.
 
However, many are also realizing the importance and power of using this method of communication with customers and suppliers as well.  Blogs can be effective marketing tools that can help business owners increase profit.  Consider the following seven reasons why every marketing program should now include blogs.

First of all, as mentioned before, blogs help to increase communication and cut down on time between messages.  Whenever communication is increased, it can be assumed that sales, and therefore profit, will be increased as well.  Blogs can actually be money makers!

Secondly, blogs are still somewhat cutting edge in marketing.  Although they have
actually been around for quite a while, they still seem new to many people.  Therefore, if you use a blog for marketing purposes, you make yourself seem up-to-date and actually a leader in new marketing methods.

Next, having your own blog is like having your own personal media forum.  It is like owning your own newspaper, radion station, or television station.  This means you have a place to say whatever you want, whenever you want, and you do not have to worry about anyone censoring you or twisting your words for personal gain.

In addition, blogs can serve as a springboard to promote your other marketing aids, and vice versa.  You can use your blog to help promote your website, and you should also include a link to your blog on business cards, emails, and other forms of communication. A blog's success depends on cross promotion to gain readership.

Another advantage to using blogs for marketing is that writing a blog will help to make you more educated in your field.  You will have to spend some time doing a little research to be able to write interesting blogs.  Showing what you know will help you to promote yourself as an expert and will increase reader/customer trust in you and your product.

You should also use a blog to help establish an angle for your product.  You need to decide if you are going to promote yourself as a conservative family company or an edgy, less traditional operation.  You can choose to be serious, funny, or strictly educational. You can hide your advertisement in the form of self-help blog postings.  It is simply up to you to determine what is your preferred method of promotion.

Finally, realize that blogs can often be picked up by other media forms.  This means additional press and free advertisement!  Blogs are quoted by other blogs, on websites, and even in print communication such as newspapers and magazines.  You can also move into the world of speaking if your blog lends itself to setting you up as an expert.

There are easy sites that can help you set up a blog in minutes or you can spend a little more time creating a unique site for yourself.  You have to be willing to invest a little time up front to create an attractive site that will grab people's attention, and then you must be willing to take about 20 minutes a day, four or five times a week, to keeping the blog updated.  

Direct sales can come from your blog.  Embrace technology, and do not be afraid to market your product using whatever tools are at your disposal.

Best regards,

Jason

PS: Visit my blog here http://www.myeasypromoter.com/blog/wordpress/

Great content Jason, in the past few weeks i started up a new wordpress blog but with added features this time, one of the best ways to keep things flowing is to add an rss feature to it amongst other add-ons like meta-tags and reciprocal links so if someone wants to comment , the next time you write up some content that person will receive the same :) these blogs are the wave and its raving mad lol, everyone should have one.

Thank you Jason. 

I'm having fun no doubt but its an add-on to the products i sell for newbies. http://thomasrichmond.myinternetresources.com/blog

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the feedback and link to your blog.

My preferred platform for blogs is a self hosted wordpress blog
with seo and rss plugins along with some of my own
mods like changing the permalinks parameters to create
SEO friendly pages urls for all your posts, using the post title. 

You can visit my blog here:

http://www.myeasypromoter.com/blog/wordpress/

Jason

_{Nice blog, i like the header too, yeah to bad i chose the classic version on my new blog, i still have my old one both powered by wordpress, the products i sell on this new one was a trade off but it brings in some new members for me willing to buy}

 _{and as for the blog ?}

_{well i use that for content with some ads not all but some.} 

 _{my products listings link has me pitching you to them.} 

_{Thats hosted by an affiliate of mine too.}