Picture a riverbank, popular for fishing. One part is beautiful, sunny, nice grass verge. A great place to just sit and soak up the atmosphere, let alone fish. Another part of the river is muddy, dark, cold. People do not even like to walk their dogs through there. Sam turns up one morning. Some old fool is stood ...
Category Archives: Marketing
Blogs That Sell – 5 Great Business Blogs
In this business and indirect monetization blogging series I have been talking about how you can use blogs to gain attention and generate sales leads. Now we should really take a look at some examples. Here are five great blogs that sell. english cut: bespoke savile row tailors Just take a look at ...
Where Blogs fit into your online marketing strategy
Blogs and online marketing. To even to seperate the two phrases in my mind feels weird. Bloggers are online marketers. You can't blog successfully without online marketing. Online marketers who ignore blogging are entering a marathon with their shoelaces tied together. A similar (and just as confused) debate is Blogs versus Websites. The question makes no sense. It ...
Sales Lead Blogs – The Art of Selling with Your Blog
Selling with blogs? It's not so long ago that I might have gotten myself lynched for merely suggesting such a distasteful thing. Slowly though the blogosphere is coming around to the idea that commerce is not necessarily evil, that in fact businesses need to make money and that they do that by selling stuff. Blogs are actually well-suited ...
Profitable Professional Networking With Blogs
Professional networking with blogs is something people do largely unconsciously. How can we use blogs for networking more intentionally? In this series I have been revealing how blogs can boost your business. Most businesses at some point will do the drinks, nibbles, business cards and handshakes thing. You might note I am not super excited ...
Blogging For Fame, Credibility and Authority
This is the third post in my series about blogging for business. In the first instalment I talked about how blogs can help your business profit and in the previous article I showed the ways blogs boost your website traffic. Now I am going to talk about using a blog to generate more ...
How a Blog Can Boost Your Website Traffic
In the first post of this series I showed you how blogs generate indirect profits, publicity and leads for businesses. Let's take a look at how. A primary motivation for anyone to set up a business website is to gain visibility. They want people to visit. Blogs are well suited to achieving this. How Blogs Generate ...
Should You Build a Blog or an EMail Newsletter List?
You have heard them"Build a list""The profit is in the list""It's all about the list"blah blah.Most people who have read up on internet marketing will have come across this idea.But then blogs, or rather RSS, came on the scene and confused the issue. Several people have ...
Should Every Company Blog?
I have been asked a question by many business people over the last couple of months. While I am still working on what my answer ought to be I have developed some thoughts. One of the great things about blogging is if you don't know the answer then your readers will usually fill you in, ...
Blog SEO: Get Your Blog out of the Supplemental Index
Little blog SEO tip today, check to see if, like my blog, you have a "supplemental index problem". Check out my Google search result, as you can see I have about 106 pages in the supplemental index. Change chrisg.com to your own domain to test your own result. So what is this "Supplemental Index"? I like the ...
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