When I created my first website I did it from ‘scratch’. That means I hand-coded every line of the site in HTML coding. It was time-consuming, pain-staking and some times down right frustrating. Many years have passed and these days getting your website up is NOT the hard part. WordPress makes it very easy...Continue reading
Category: Blogging
Can You Pass Blogging 101?
To understand blogs, you need to start with the lingo. Once you have that down you are well on your way to knowing exactly what a blog is and how to navigate through the virtual world with this awesome communication tool. Blogging 101 is simply the terms used in blogging. Without looking below, do you...Continue reading
Have you ever considered blogging as a marketing tool?
As an online business owner you know that to be successful you must drive the right kind of traffic to your website, the type of people who will be interested in whatever you are offering; your target market. Of course you do the usual and advertise your products or services everywhere and anywhere across the...Continue reading
Blogs – The Next Great Communication Medium
Blogs are expressional. Blogs are informational. Blogs are entertaining. Blogs are sales tools. Blogs are the next great communication medium. Blogs have definitely taken over as the next great communication medium don’t you think? And with good reason! Blogging is free, easy, multipurpose, and can reach a far greater and more diverse audience faster than...Continue reading
Blogging Can Bring Fame (and Maybe a Little Fortune)
The internet has sure made the world a smaller place. People from all over the world and from all walks of life can now communicate and interact with each other 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We have online forums and chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking sites, and of course blogs. But...
Protecting Your Blog Content
Originally posted at http://biznik.com/articles/good-thief-bad-thief-stolen-blog?utm_source=articles&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2011-06-30 Good Thief-Bad Thief: Stolen Blog Have you ever wondered if the stuff you post online is safe from the content scrapers? Learn what to do to protect yourself and your content. Several months ago, someone stole my wife Judy’s blog. Technically, they copied it word for word and...Continue reading
Check Sites Like Amazon.com
There is likely a dozen or more books on any given topic at Amazon.com or other similar sites. Most of the books let you peek inside at the table of contents. Use the table of contents to give you topic ideas and you’re sure to pick a winner!
Ask Your Market
One great way to find out what people want to know is to just ask them. Try sending out a survey to your email list. Post the subject and poll results on your blog. Or ask people who you already know in your target market their opinion on a particular topic and blog about their...Continue reading
Visit Expert Blogs
Visit the blogs of other experts in your field and see what they’re blogging about. Take particular note of the topics that get a lot of comments or trackbacks (links). Look at ways you can incorporate those or similar topics in to your blog.
Visit Forums
People gather in all kinds of forums to ask questions and share information. Search for relevant forums to find exciting and interesting questions and topics that you can then talk about in your blog..