Business Blogging Excellence

One great way to always have fresh content for your blog is to blog about your continuing education effort.  I am a member of iLearning global and I have no end to the stuff I can blog about on my iLearning Global Blog.

In fact, the wealth of information has made it the fastest growing blog I have ever set up.

The benefit of having training is 2 fold.

#1 – You are becoming more successful and more skilled.

#2 – You have fresh content for your blog.

If you can join a system like iLearning Global and get both those benefits for under $80 per month, you have really gotten a great deal.

If you want to see what a blog can do for a business opportunity, look at what we did with iLearningGlobal on our Liquid Learning Blog in a matter of two weeks.  It is generating leads and ranks well as an expert site for iLearning Global.  Yes, you can sign up and sell iLearning Global too, but what other ways can you generate revenue with a blog?

1. Sell your own products.
2. Sell MLM products like iLearning Global (Review)
3. Affiliate Links
4. Advertising
5. Google Adwords
6. Paid Posts – I get a lot of free things, at least.
7. Membership sites like Virtual Buzz Assistant
8. Lead generation for consulting, speaking, freelance work
9. Email List Development – which can lead to sales

Not only that, but if you implement membership plugins for WordPress, your WordPress blog can become a members only training area for sales reps, affiliates, clients and more.  That increases revenue via better performance or better customer relations.

I have a variety of free blogs that I started for various reasons.

1. Buzz Marketing Blog
2. Ron McDaniel Blog

These are just to name two.  You might wonder why start free blogs when we have powerful blogs that we host, such as Virtual Buzz Assistant Blog and Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing Blog.  The fact is, when I want to increase the effectiveness of an article on one of my hosted blogs, I write a summary update on the free blogs and link to them with good anchor text.

This simple technique will greatly enhance the power and ranking of your blog.  So even if you are paying to host your blogs, set up some free blogs as well.

Rule number one is to keep your blog going.  A blog’s success has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the effort you put into it.

Here are two new article that you will like if you are interest in blogs and internet marketing.

• Internet Marketing To Do List
• Free Internet Marketing Plan

The first one is quick activities you can do yourself today.  The second one is about how to put together an internet marketing plan that gets results.  Enjoy.

Have you ever wanted to meet with a group of business owners, marketers and entrepreneurs in a comfortable, confidential environment and have them act as a marketing advisory board and help you improve your marketing results, cut your marketing risks and free up your time?

I have been on these kinds of advisory committees as a non-profit board member and I can tell you that they are wonderful.  They really help you focus on your goals and force you to think through what is really important.  Even if I am helping someone else with their problem, I learn so much.

Buzzoodle just released a new product called Marketing Mastery Advisory Board that gets small groups of peers in mid-sized businesses together for rigorous monthly session on improving marketing outcomes.  Go check out the site and sign up for your no risk 1st meeting.

Blogs are a cornerstone of Internet Marketing.

A blog will make every part of internet marketing easier.  It will be easier to link to you, easier to find you in search engines, easier to communicate with you and easier to get to know you.

If you go read the article called Internet Marketing on the Buzzoodle blog, you will get a more complete picture of how blogging and Internet marketing work together.

Business blogging is a big part of buzz marketing.

If you want to use blogging along with other techniques to create more buzz for your organization, you should consider signing up for the Buzz Marketing Lessons.

You will find out in those lessons how to use your blog to better brand yourself, how to use it to gain access to people and how to write so you get better search engine results.

Here is a list of internet marketing activities that a realtor should outsource to a virtual assistant.

Source: Real Estate Virtual Assistant

1. Updates to websites and blogs
2. Article writing
3. Set up local housing blog and keep it updated
4. Monitor search engine traffic to improve listing performance
5. Update real estate home listings
6. Optimize images and video
7. Upload images and video
8. Reach out to local housing market and try to grow email lists
9. Publish email newsletters with home listings

A Virtual Buzz Assistant is a person that works remotely and helps you create more buzz online.

The issue with creating buzz is that you need a solid strategy before you start using a Virtual Buzz Assistant. If you just tell them to go out and create buzz, they will try all kinds of things but not get great results because great results come from having a strategy and sticking to it long enough to get results.

Here are 5 specific things that a Virtual Assistant can do that makes sense.

1) Write blog posts – they can keep your blog fresh and interesting.

2) Online Advocacy – Contact people and invite them to sign up for your newsletter, try a free sample, link to your site or whatever your goal is.

3) Build online resources – They could write in Hubpages and Squidoo every month, creating more things that reference your website.

4) Bookmark and submit your blog – The VBA can use social bookmarks and blog directories to build more links (ways for people to find you)

5) Article Publishing – Virtual Buzz Assistant can submit your articles to article directories every month, making sure that content is unique and links properly.

Article Submitted By: Ron McDaniel

Blogging is a great way to meet new people and get noticed. Getting yourself known on other sites from your blog helps generate a lot of traffic as well. The question is, though, “Is your site link friendly?” Here are some things to do that could increase linking and traffic.

1. Make sure comments are enabled! This should be a no brainer, but I’ve seen a few blog sites with this feature disabled, and that is a major no-no. By enabling comments, you are encouraging people to be a part of the conversation and building relationships with other bloggers. Keep it up and they just may be talking about you later.

2. Blogroll. Pople love being linked, and they keep track of it. Bloggers will check you out once you’ve linked them, and if they find your site valuable, they may reciprocate.

3. Trackbacks. Providing trackback links is important because it allows others to link back to you as a source. The more the merrier.

4. Social media links on blogs. Many plugins are available that add social media links on each post for sites such as Digg, Reddit, Technorati, Del.icio.us, etc. If you are part of a social media site like Technorati or BlogCatalog, what are you waiting for? Copy/paste the code they give you to pop into your blog site! Make it easy for people to add you!

5. Social media sites. Take full advantage of sites such as LinkedIn, Squidoo, Howto.com, Technorati, MyBlogLog, etc. and link them to you. For example, my LinkedIn profile links to my business site and personal blog.

These are just a few simple ways to get noticed. The key is to focus hard and build on one tool before moving on to the next one. A few strong tools work better than many mediocre ones. Now get out there and start linking!

Article Submitted By: Hans Strock