It's A Blog, Not A Sales Letter

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The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to ignite the hope that
people can make a full-time income from blogging. But blogs are better used
as a medium to support and brand your business than to sell.

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Date: November 2004

blog, blogs, blogging, branding, sales letter, Priya Shah

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It's A Blog, Not A Sales Letter

Copyright ® 2004 Priya Shah
http://www.priyashah.com

The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to
ignite the hope that people can make a full-time income
from blogging.

Although there are a few people actually doing this, there
aren't too many business models yet that can support
someone making a full-time income from their blogs.

I believe that blogs should be an important part of any
traffic-generation plan for a website, but don't depend on
the blog itself to do much selling.

Blogs are best viewed as an addition to site content, in
reality, a very simple content management system that helps
you update your site more frequently, so your search engine
listings and traffic increase.

Email campaigns are still the best way to produce sales on
demand and to announce specials and time-limited offers,
because blogs do not yet have the immediacy and reach of
email.

Blogs are not about selling anyway. As an internet marketer
and publisher, I find that blogs can be an excellent tool
to support your main business, to provide value, build
relationships with prospective customers and to build your
personal brand and image.

For corporates and small businesses, blogs can help put a
human face on an otherwise bland business site. In the
corporate world, blogs are being for internal communication
and knowledge management, and for brand building and public
relations campaigns.

Nike's Art of Speed blog is an excellent example of subtle
brand building using blogs.
http://www.gawker.com/artofspeed

As an internet marketer and publisher, here are some ways
you can use blogs to support your business.

1. Write reviews of products in your field

Writing reviews not only allows you to benefit from
improved search engine listings for the product you are
reviewing, but allows you to provide your subscribers
with information that contributes to their purchase
decisions. That makes it an ideal way to earn affiliate
income.

2. Direct traffic to your articles

If you've written an article and published it online, use
your blog to post a teaser, perhaps describing what made
you write that particular article, and then link to it so
you get your readers to also visit your website and check
out your other offerings.

3. Direct traffic to your ezine archives

Post a few paragraphs or the editorial of your ezine or
newsletter issues on your blog and link to the archived
issue on your website so that your readers can read the
rest of the issue there.

4. Talk about what's going on in your life

People buy from those they like and trust. As an online
journal or diary, a blog is the ideal medium to share
details of your holiday, the things that made you laugh (or
not), your own humorous take on life, anything to let your
prospective customers get to know the person behind the
website better.

5. Comment on developments in your industry

A blog is an ideal place to post your personal opinions,
favourable or not, about the developments in your industry.
If you are not happy with someone's customer service, or
have been defrauded, they are also a good way of warning
other potential victims. Becoming a source of industry
information is part of the process of branding yourself as
an expert.

There are many more ways that you can promote yourself,
your products and services using a blog, but the ones above
should get you started for now.

Just remember to use your blog for the purpose it was meant
to be used. To brand, to communicate, to connect.

Leave the selling to your sales letter.


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Top 8 Blogging Guide Tips That Get You Results

There are many things you can do when you blog. But people have made many mistakes when they blog. So here are my top 8 Blogging Guide Tips to help you in your blogging journey.

1. My no.1 thing that bought me so much success with blogging is that I blog very often! In fact when I was free I can blog like 5 times a day. And I was surprised the number of traffic I can to my website.

But you if seriously have no time you can always blog at least once every 3 days. But in general the more you blog the more exposure you have for your blog.

2. Another guide I would suggest for new people is to ask people with high page rank to exchange links with you. This will help you a lot when Google index and rank your page. The more high page rank pages linked to you the chances of you getting rank high would be easier

3. Another one of my top Blogging Guide is people always forget to register with Technorati.com. Do you know if you can rank high in Technoarati.com you will always get traffic when you post something on your blog itself.

4. Here is another must do Blogging Guide which is to register your blog with feedburner.com. If you haven’t done so.. please do.

5. Although I know a lot of people saying Blogger is easier to use and so, I still prefer Wordpress compared to other interfaces. The main reason is because there are 3000 over free templates to download for FREE and 1,000+ plugins to enhance your blog which blogger does not have

But you will need to have your own webhost and register a domain which is not free =P But the wordpress is free to install =)

6. Another one of my great blogging guide is the discovery of exchange of links. You can go to Google search for link exchanges and exchange links with friends.

But you would want to only exchange links that are related to your trade dont any how change links with people. The more related they are the better it is.

7. Spend time to make your blog search engine friendly, this topic is not easy for beginners but if you really spend the time on it you will see results.

8. The most important of all the Blogging Guide is to always always STAY FOCUS. Do not the king of all trade of master of none.


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Do you know this blogging solution secret that only a few know?

One of the major reasons why most people are poor and only a few are rich worldwide is that there are certain secrets that these few rich know that the majority of the poor do not know.

Same with blogging.

Is there any wonder why most bloggers still struggle without making a good income with their blogs, no matter how many they have... while there are few bloggers that make tons and tons of money with their blogs?

The secret is NOT necessarily that these few bloggers are smarter than the majority of the poor bloggers.

It is NOT that these few bloggers work harder than most of the bloggers that don't make money.

It is also NOT that these few bloggers spend a lot of money to make their blogs earn more.

The real truth is that these few rich bloggers know some secrets that they apply to their blogs that the majority of the poor bloggers do not know.

Now ask yourself...

Do you belong to the class of rich bloggers that know and use powerful blogging techniques and tools to increase their bank balance?

Or do you belong to the class of poor bloggers that continue to waste time doing in hours and days what could have been done in seconds or minutes with the right tools.

For example, there are certain blogging tasks that can take just a few minutes to do with the right software that if one doesn't know it can take hours and/or days to do.

I for one use to spend many long hours doing blogging activities that now take me just a few minutes with the right blogging software/tool.

So, if you want to be like these few rich bloggers, take your time and search for the software that can help to make your blogging experience not only as stress-free as possible, but very profitable without killing yourself with work.

A strong note of warning here -- Don't be greedy for fast money and fall for the hypes of most blackhat blogging software ventors out there. Most of these are not just a huge money waster but could get your blog in trouble with the search engines.


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You Won't Believe It's This EASY to Make A Fortune With Blogs

Indeed, it is not only possible to make a fortune with bloggging, but it is easier than most people can imagine.

If you really want to make a fortune with blogging you need as many blogs as possible. That's the most important single determinant to making a fortune with blogging.

Just one blog can't make you millions. Even a few blogs can't make you millions. You need to set up and manage as many blogs as possible... because when it comes to making real money, it is a NUMBERS game.

I know your next question will be - How can I easily create as many blogs as possible, right?

Well, I admit that you just can't create as many blogs as you want manually. You have to find a way to automate the process. After all, you and me just have 24 hours in every day. We need to find ways of getting the best from these 24 hours. And with the right software, this can be possible. There are great software that can help one to achieve in minutes what others do in hours and even days.

I know your next question after this will be - How can you easily manage the posting of content to as many of these blogs as possible, right?

This also shouldn't be a big problem because there are now tools and software that can be used to automate this process. Of course I am not talking about blackhat software that tries to steal content from the search engines and/or other people's websites. I am talking about completely whitehat software out there that can be used to automate the process of content posting to as many blogs as possible.

But like I have always warned my friends that are interested in making a killing in blogging, you should take your time to search for credible blogging software that will do this for you.

If you have these right whitehat blogging software and have a mindset of creating as many blogs as possible, you can indeed join the few smart bloggers out there that are making a killing with blogging.

An alternative to making a fortune with blogging is to hire an avalanche of people to handle the various aspects of blog creation and content posting. But this is CRAZY because why should anyone spend such a huge amount hiring staff when there are incredibly software available to help with the various aspects of blogging?


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2.Free Advertising

Submitting your articles to other news letter authors will
encrease your exposure 100 fold, these guys and gals look
for new content and when they find it they let every one
on their list know about it.

What this does for you is this, Traffic Traffic Traffic
to your site. All For Free.

3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking

When your article is published on a one way link back to your
site the search engines look for this and rank you according
to your amount of one way links back to your site that you
have on that article.

Lets say you had 500 people that gave you a one way link back
to your site, Well when this happens, you have just been ranked
in the top ten under that article.

The more links you have the more traffic you are going to get
from the search engines. Plain and simple One way linking works
every time.

4. Articles establish a excellent sourse of Information and Trust.

By writing an article that has helpful information, it will
set you apart from the scammers of this world, it will also
help you with sales at your site.

Because once the reader reads what you have to say, most likely
he or she will visit your site and look around for a while
and just maybe he or she will purchase your product all
because he or she felt they could trust you.

Now the trust came from you helping them solve a problem
thru the article you wrote.

5.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies

Now if your not doing this, I recommend you do and here's
why I am saying this.

Ask the readers to drop you a short note and tell you how
they liked your recent article. Take these testimonials and
put them on your web site so others can read them.

This will help you so much, and will also convince others to
trust you as well.

Your credibility will go throgh the roof and others will see
the positive feed backs and then they will open their wallets
and buy from you.

This is how it's done on the net, this is how the experts do
it, with that in mine I have one more bit of info for you.

Never say you can't, because we both know you can if you want
to take the time to learn how to write articles.

My best to you and your future online


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Webmaster

Here are a few publishers you can submit your articles to.

http://www.creativespotlite.com/cutenews/submit-articles.htm
http://www.creativity-portal.com/main/submit.article.html
http://www.crazycolour.com/os/sendarticle.shtml
http://www.connectionteam.com/2submit.html
http://www.theezine.net/contact.html

This guy has a huge resource you should look at very well
worth your time and effort.
http://www.theezine.net/cb/index.php

http://www.mpbnetwork.com/submit_article.asp
http://www.ibizresources.com/contact_article.html
http://sbinformation.about.com/library/blsubmission.htm
http://clearviewpublications.com/small-business-newsletter-
entrepreneur/business-articles/submit-form.htm
http://www.addme.com/nlsubmit.htm
http://www.businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/base-list/submit-article.aspx
http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
http://www.small-biz-advisor.com/Articles/Contribute/default.aspx
http://www.mentors.net/03submissions.html
http://www.yourfranchise.com/submitarticle.asp
http://www.contactpoint.ca/cjcd/pages/submitarticle.html
http://www.collegecentral.com/SubmitNews.cfm


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Five Sure Fire Ways That Articles Will Bring You An Avalanch Of Free Traffic To Your Site.

Today the internet is very competitive and has been for many
years. Lets face the facts if you do not advertise your
business you will fail for sure, especially when others spend
hours each day writting articles for submissions.

Getting top ten rankings in the search engines can be very
very difficult. Fortunately, that's why writting articles is
so much better than ranking your web site with the search
engines.

There is alot of strategies you can learn, from paid
advertising to affiliate marketing.

However, there are many ways to promote your web site with out
spending a dime on anything. Writing articles is one of the
best web site promotional tools you can use, and it can send
thousands of people looking for information right to your site.

And all for FREE, you never have to take money out of your
pocket to get the traffic a good article can produce.

How, you may ask? well here are a few of the ways that writting
articles can benifit you.

1.Reach more people

When you write a good article it gets published by ezines
and other authors accross the net for free. It must be original
by you, and created by you and only you.

Now your main goal when writting an article is to help someone
that has a problem, write your article as if you where giving
them the advice as if they where sitting right in front of you.

Now if you do this a couple of things happen for you.

Other publishers will find your article worthy for them to
publish and presto you have traffic going to your site all
for free.

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