Tag Archive: blog marketing

Antique Blogging – Is It Acceptable?

Blogging has both a good and a bad reputation. Those who like it swear by it. Those who don’t swear at it. I recently had a conversation with a local antique dealer about blogging. I shared with him an idea I had about publishing a local blog about antiques. I figured with as many local…

Where To Get Blog Post Ideas

Where do you get your ideas for blog posts? Here are 5 ways I’ve used to get blog posts ideas and all of these will work for you too. It doesn’t matter what niche you are in or what kind of blog you write, you can generate ideas for blog posts using these easy and…

My MWF Plan

Just a quick note to make an announcement. And, no, I’m not going to promise to drop gas prices to $2.50 a gallon. What I will say is that Taylor and Associates is going to adopt a 3-day blogging schedule. From here going forward we will post to this blog on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday….

Blogger Blogs And Article Marketing

The interesting thing about Blogger blogs is that this is a Google product that doesn’t require any inbound links to rank in the search engines. Typically, when you create a website that website won’t get crawled or indexed by the search engines until it has some inbound links pointing to it. Not so with Blogger…

7 Truths About Online Marketing Today

While considering the plight of small business Internet marketing this weekend, I came up with 7 truths about online marketing right now that cannot be ignored. Quality content is better than quantity Social media is a necessity Building relationships is key Small business search engine marketing is almost all local You can’t improve what you…

Where Is Blogging Headed In 2012?

Instead of writing a long post about where blogging is going, and where it is now, I decided that today I’d just share a video. Shani Higgins can say it better than I can anyway. And she’s got the clout to back it up. In summary, however, this is what you’ll hear (my paraphrasing): Blogging…

Is Blogging On The Decline?

As someone who has made his living primarily from blog ghostwriting for more than five years now, I’ve got to say that my business has not wavered one bit. OK, to be honest, I did take a slight hit when the economy went south directly after the last presidential election, but it’s held pretty steadily…

13 Blog Post Types That Generate Long-Term Fans

If you want to turn readers into long-term fans of your blog, you’ll need to provide them with content that makes them forget they have a life. Here are 13 blog post types that you can use to turn casual readers into long-term fans of your blog. The “Best Of” Post – Use your best…

7 Online Lead Generation Methods That Work

When it comes to online marketing, it’s all about generating leads. Whatever you do, you hope to drive traffic back to your website and close a sale. Here are 7 tried and true online lead generation tactics that still work. Search engine optimization – SEO is nothing more than the process of ranking your web…

Are You Using These Online Marketing Channels?

I thought I’d just quickly share 19 online marketing channels you can use right now, today. Are you using these effectively? Your website – Your company website should be the hub of your online marketing efforts. Your company blog – A company blog can be used in many ways – branding, targeted marketing, link building,…