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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Why Many Businesses are Turning to Blogging?

The entrepreneurs and the companies are now realizing that blog are very useful for helping them to increase online sales and profit. Blog is easy to create and flexible. It offers a few significant benefits to most of the businesses whether they are online or offline based.
  • It is a low-cost solution to communicating with your potential and existing customers for long term without needed to redesign your existing e-commerce website.
  • You can keep people up-to-date on what is happening on your business or company. You can post announcement of new product or brand launch. There is no cost associated for posting announcement and the readers and customers will know about your new product or brand in short time period.
  • Your blog content, information and articles can be distributed through feed networks which enable you to reach a larger target market.
  • An excellent way to share your individual expertise and knowledge with thousands of people.
  • A simple and fast way to start publishing content on the Internet.
Making your blog well known by many people will take some time and consistent marketing effort; and getting high search engine rankings is important to your blog’s success.

With Blog, companies and e-entrepreneurs can reach out to their targeted prospects directly through news update and contest events, and the ‘real-time’ insight can be the main reason why the potential and existing customers stay in touch.

A blog can help your business:

• Answer the questions of your targeted prospects
• Hold contests
• Launch a promotion campaign or offer discount coupons online
• Share the latest information that your prospects interested and post product releases
• Start a photo showcase
• Gathering customers feedbacks and suggestions
• Respond to customers feedbacks and suggestions
• Establish good relationship with your target prospects

A blog can also be a helpful resource for employees. It may be set up on a company intranet or server to share a newsletter, publish daily posts focusing on a particular topic, or provide the resources and tools the employees need for the day-to-day business operation.

Blogs is a great tool for you to create a strong community and build traffic; the cost of generating traffic from search engine marketing and traditional direct mail can lead to thousands of dollars in marketing expenses.

By posting useful and interesting content on a regular basis on your business blog you can build up a community of readers where the readers will be loyal to you and come back often to your blog for new post.

As blog publishes fresh content frequently, it will get the attention of search engines because search engines like fresh content. Also a frequently updated blog is easier to attract backlinks which can help your blog reaches to the top in search engines. If the search engines rank you high, they will start sending potential buyers to your blog and help you grow your customer base.

The readers choose to subscribe to your blog feeds and newsletters because they like your blog, so your business can reduce at least some of the cost of trying to solicit customers, the ‘old-fashioned way.’

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