A very good reason why blogging is a powerful tool to market your business online
Why blog for business? A good question was posted in our online business community, a question I’ve often asked myself in fact. For the most part I know that a number of my readers are people in the same industry as me. I also know that my friends in business are all so busy that by the time they want to read things they are too tired and while they know that they need to market their businesses online its not a passion of theirs and so its easier to get sidetracked. …
Why don’t you blog for your business?
I asked this question “Why don’t you write blogs or articles?” in our online business community and especially liked this response from Lynn Rippenaar-Moses from Wrap It Up PR and Communication which has inspired me to share my thoughts. …
Does the thought of writing blog posts scare you?
Just before the recession hit the UK I decided I’d had enough of the 9 to 5 rutt and I was desperate to escape and get out. All I wanted was to find something that earned me enough income so I can work from home. While working I spend every bit of spare time I could find to work on one day being able to work from home. I explored and exhausted many options and then one day I found what I was looking for. When the time came and I started working for myself I did not have a …
10 Good reasons to use WordPress for your website platform
The internet is one of those things that is constantly evolving and changing This will inevitably have an impact on the functionality of your website in the long term. When it comes to having your website designed it is no longer a one off exercise where you pay someone to build you a website and then it sits on the internet forever. On the contrary, you will need to update your website regularly to reflect any changes and to keep up with a rapid moving market. Don’t get me wrong, if your website is working and generating you heaps of …
How to format your blog posts
Do you know how to format your blogs so that it is attractive to visitors and to make it attractive enough for them to read further. Many people struggle with how to format their blogs so that it is visually pleasing to the reader. The reason you want to make sure that your blog is formatted and laid out properly is purely to attract readers. Humans are very visual in nature and we tend to judge everything in a few seconds and in these few seconds we decide whether or not we are going to continue with whatever …

Why should you comment on blogs
Before social media came along a strategy professional bloggers would use was to comment on other blog sites because it was a way of generating more exposure and it creates a link which would point back to your blog site. This is not the same as posting a comment in social networks, no, this is posting a comment on blog sites you find on the internet. When I do blog training with clients one of the tasks they need to do is to comment on blog posts. The biggest reason for this is to help my clients to develop …