What Makes Blog a Subscription Magnet

I recently cleaned up my blog subscriptions as part of my Getting Organized challenge. Looking through dozens of blogs made me think what is it that makes me want to come back to some blogs and unsubscribe from others. 

 

Am I the Only One Reading This Blog

Am I here alone? Does anyone bother reading this?

 

If you write a blog that doesn’t seem to be getting much action, you probably ask yourself these questions quite often. Do you care to find out

Get a Blueprint for Your Business Blog

I wouldn’t be the first to say that one can learn much more from failures than from successes. When I started my first business blog, I failed pretty miserably at it, but learned a few good lessons. Some were strategic, some – tactical, and others – operational (yes, it was a bit of everything).

One of the tactical mistakes was relying 100% on spontaniety when writing blog… Continue reading

5 Tips for Better Blogging

Blogging is great – it’s inexpensive to start and your content can be easily syndicated and distributed, again at little cost. Tracking results of your blogging efforts seems fairly easy as well  - just get Google Analytics, subscribe to Feedburner and put an opt-in form with a free download. Mission accomplished! 

And then you check your analytics report and see only a handful of visitor. Your Feedburner shows no subscribers at all. And you have to go… Continue reading | 1 Comment

How Often to Post to a Business Blog?

Q: How often should I post to my business blog? Many blogs I subscribe to get updated at least daily and sometimes several times a day. With everything else I have to do, I simply don’t have time to post this often.

A: Most Internet marketing gurus agree that posting frequency is a lot less relevant to your blog’s success than quality content optimized for your keywords. But you are more… Continue reading

Does My Business Need a Blog?

Q: It seems like everyone has a blog and I feel like I’m really missing the boat here! I’ve read up a bit about business blogs, but I’m still not sure if I need one. I don’t want to end up wasting the little spare time that I have.

A: If the only reason you are thinking about starting a blog is because “everyone does it”, you are heading for… Continue reading

Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com?

Q: I’m thinking about starting a business blog. Should I be using Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com? And what’s the difference anyway?

A: When I first started my blog, I would inevitably get a “deer in headlights” look any time someone mentioned hosting services,  FTP transfers, HTML and similar techno-speak. There was also the issue of money. Third-party hosting is not terribly expensive, but it’s not free either. And I was trying to… Continue reading | 3 Comments