Wednesday 18 July 2012

How to Promote your own business through Blogging


Success of any business depends upon the team of people working for it and of course lots of quality Leads & continuous Sales. Business owners and heads run behind sales and marketing team to bring loads of quality leads those can be converted to sales and thus brings the revenue to the business. And for the consistent growth in business, sales and marketing people keep on looking for probable channels of bringing quality leads. Along with core or field marketing, internet or online marketing is one of the major source of attracting leads to the business, for which business need to have a good website. Only having a good website will not help the business and it is essential to optimize the website for all the major search engines as well as market the business online through various available mediums.

Online marketing always been the most cost effective medium to market the business. And businesses generally hire a team of online marketers in-house or hire an agency to handle their digital marketing work, who  use to work a lot for the promotion and marketing of the business through different activities like Search Engine Optimization (for organic rankings on major search engines like Google), Search Engine Marketing (paid advertising through Pay-per Click), Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Social Media Optimization & Marketing and many more. But they do each and every activity only as their regular work and without getting involved into it at the core. It is their job to deliver the results as per the business requirement.

Here arise the need of business owners or heads to step in and get involve in some of the activities as they have the core knowledge of their business and that information should be spread across the web and reach to the targeted audience through some mean. They can write anything useful about the business and its services or products using different platforms like website itself, Web Blog, press releases, articles, eBooks, white papers, case studies, etc.  But apart from Web Blog all other platforms have their own limitations in terms of regular updates, content, submission, promotion, etc. The Blog is an important platform through which one can express everything at the same place and attract relevant readers or visitors. The Blog can be the official blog of the website or the personal blog of any individual person that they can configure on free blog websites like Blogger.com or WordPress.com and it should be updated on regular basis with the useful and relevant content. Visitors looking for good information about your business, products or services will definitely come again and again.

Apart from writing about their own business, services & products, business owners can also write about the other companies, partners, manufacturers, suppliers, or business service providers with whom they have done some deals. The Blog is very helpful in providing useful information to the targeted audience and interested readers will follow the Blog for more information. Business Owners or head are the best person to describe about the business in detail and their writings will have the highest authority of the content for its readers. For them it’s like a make or break kind on condition, they can attract good number of people through their good content and on the other hand they can also damage the image of their business as well as themselves by writing something bad. Hence they have to very careful and cautious about the content going in to their Blogs.

1 comment:

  1. I would agree with that, as introduction of blogging in the online sector has really boosted the interaction among individuals. Definitely looking forward to more interesting blogs like these.

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