After you have clicked on the article link and before the text is fetched, you probably think -- "What Do I think about this one?" You must have an opinion even though the issue (of blogging) is still fresh.
I would say; you need only one of them, if not neither.
You need an email newsletter in the case where you think that relationship management is a must for you business. This story didn't change much. With a newsletter you are able to give prospects and clients valuable information that is not otherwise available. The newsletter should continue news, but also updates and other product information or discounts. Success stories may be included, etc, etc.
With a newsletter you show your public that you are still around. The frequency per issue may vary, but the credibility will increase when this frequency is constant. This requires hard work, and only liable companies are able to do this. This is why most people buy (on the inteet); ninety percent out of trust.
If sales is not your first business priority, than you do not need an email newsletter. There are so many other specialized direct marketing companies and focused companies that you should better link to. And you do not even have to write them a letter, you ought to convince them that your service or product is a win for both.
If sales is not your first priority than you can do without a weblog too. There is no need for a weblog, other than that it is just fancy. Choose for one, if you think it will help your business.
© 2006 Hans Bool
Hans Bool is the founder of Astor White a traditional management consulting company that offers online management advice. Astor Online solves issues in hours what normally would take days. You can apply for a free demo account
As you read this our govement is ramping up a campaign of oppression against the heartland of America. Operation Cyber Storm, aimed directly at the right of free speech is ready to be deployed against all of us.
Bloggers are thus acknowledged as Americans last hope for freedom.
Bloggers have for years now shown their collective muscle of the mind and heart, changing the direction of govement action in many instances, and exposing the corruption that is now endemic to every institution for which Americans pay so dearly.
Now the govement has decided they must be silenced. It is time to fight back. We can retu America to the goveance of the people. In that battle bloggers are our first line of resistance.
The existence of those cantankerous bloggers whose on line discourse, diatribes, and insights annoy so many have become the last, best line of defense for the much tattered First Amendment. The rapidity with which bloggers change opinion has made them a force with which to be reckoned. Therefore this govement under the speciously constructed argument of 'terrorist threat' is going after the Blogsphere.
It is time for those who truly care about America and our liberties as Americans to abandon the futile activities that replayed endlessly the activist organizing of the 60s. They no longer work.
Alito was confirmed. The Congress is stacked; the Supreme Court is frozen for the forces of big govement and tyranny. At this point we cannot count on electing replacements because the ballot process has been hijacked. It is time to climb out of the box and take the offensive.
Bloggers are under attack. They need to be protected. Therefore, the ACLU needs to organizing task forces and action network so that any blogger who is attacked for free speech issues will get all the support needed to spring him or her while using each case to awaken the public to what is happening.
Think of it as the medical support we owe our military when, to protect us, they put themselves in harms way.
We have been divided, right and left, Green and Libertarian. These chasms are in large part fiction, constructed to prevent effective communication and a unified front for protecting the rights of individuals against the predations of the unholy alliance between megacorporations and govement.
Decent people may have disagreements about how to get there but they all understand where we want to go. The rights of individuals as enunciated by Jefferson remain today the Mission Statement of America, more profound and compelling of our loyalty than any govement or political party. How ever we live, as long as we do no harm to others, is ours to decide.
Political parties are tools we created to help us achieve the goals left uncompleted at the time of America's founding. Political parties were immediately used to oppose the full participation of each individual in that vision. Blacks remained in slavery; women dispossessed of their rights to their own property and to their bodies. Slavery, as Americans are beginning to see, comes in many kinds.
Where political parties fail because they have proven to be incapable of advancing the work of human emancipation they must be discarded. One of their most profound failings is in the divides they made possible. The redefinition of meanings, linking loyalty to words like 'conservative' instead of to the profound principles underlying America's Mission Statement worked to convert our rights, inherent and preceding govement, to privileges, granted by govement.
The change in definition that has helped create these divides is beautifully enunciated by R. J. Eskow in his article that appeared today on Huffington.com.
The solution is a working coalition and the way to make that work is to start working together to protect our first line of defense, a common problem, the coming persecution of Bloggers.
Our uniting agenda must include protecting Bloggers as the last bastion of free speech and the Inteet as the village commons where opinions are aired, judged, and adopted through the process of persuasion and consent.
Left, Right, Libertarian, and Green; we have common cause and a common need. That need is urgent and compelling. We cannot yet guarantee an honest vote but we can support the warriors of the word who are out there in the trenches.
Blog Power: Celebrate the heroes among us.
Blogging has become the true voice of the people, the only one that the NeoCons have not yet managed to stifle. American Patriots will continue to speak out. In silence freedom would truly die.
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather.
Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Libertarian Party in 1988. She received 5% of the vote in a four way race in 1982 for Califoia's 20th State Senate Race while also serving as Southe Vice-Chairman for the Califoia Libertarian Party. She was elected to six terms as a state officer, eventually serving on National Committee.
In 1988 she rejoined the Republican Party and became a member and country officer for the National Federation of Republican Women and also served as a Regent for several years.
She is also the the founder of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.com
Free SEO blog content is powerful and the source of lots of envy from other site owners struggling to win just a little traffic.
I vividly remember in the days before I discovered the power of free SEO blog content, I would visit blogs that had already clocked millions of hits. I would look around curiously and with lots of envy trying to find ways to get the magic to rub off on my then traffic-starved blogs and me.
Even today it is sometimes a little difficult to believe that just a few lousy words written in a certain order and repeated often enough throughout n article can result in daily six figure traffic hits. But then that's the power of free SEO blog content.
Free search engine optimized blog content starts with the address of your blog. Never underestimate the power of including important keywords in the address of your blog. It is a fact that when leading search engine robots spider your site, they quickly take note of the keywords in the title and the result is that your site is ranked highly in search engine results for that particular keyword phrase.
Free SEO blog content that you generate at your blog on a daily basis using different keyword phrases accumulates a huge number of different keyword phrases after a short period of time. The result is that even if each keyword phrase gives you a mere 12 hits on average daily, after 3 months of daily content creation using different keywords, your blog will be enjoying over a thousand hits daily.
After that things tend to accumulate rather quickly. Stuff like people linking to your blog and email opt-in lists growing fast. The result is that a few months later your traffic will have grown to tens of thousands, daily.
Oh my, the wonders of free SEO blog content.
So the big question now for those still in the dark is how a person generates those magic keyword phrases to help them create free SEO blog content?
Christopher Kyalo is a successful online entrepreneur. Read the rest of this article at his Free SEO Blog Content site.
Blog and Ping is STILL a great method to still get your website indexed.
1. First, create a blog, you can use either WordPress on your own servers, or get one on a blog site such as Blogger.com.
2. Second create a list of links to your website and post them to your blog every 3-24 hours.
3. After you post new content to your blog, you ping a list of ping services such as Pingomatic.com. This brings search engine spiders to your blogs a LOT faster than they would normally come.
A lot of the "gurus" out there have been telling people that blog and ping has been dead since August 05. Well, I JUST STARTED in August 05 using Blog and Ping and it worked great then and it still does today, just a little bit slower.
I can get 20 pages indexed in Yahoo in 1-2 days and then Yahoo! Slurp just indexes the whole site within about a month. Google is very random with blog and ping, but when they do come around it is really great - I am talking about 40k pages indexed in 3 days. Pages get into MSN really quick as well, not as many as Yahoo and Google but it's not a big deal because MSN doesn't send nearly as much traffic anyway.
One reason a lot of people don't start to blog and ping is because of the cost of software, well here is a free set of blog and ping programs for you:
Free Blog and Ping
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No, I'm not going to start this article off with a cliché such as "a blog is this, they are new, they are so powerful etc etc". No my friend, if you have read articles about blogging in the past than you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, and I'm sure that you're getting sick and tired of hearing the same regurgitated garbage that these folks are feeding you.
Well guess what, I have an interesting surprise for you today my friend! Today we will not be using half of this article to explain what a blog is because the fact of the matter is, 99% of you know what a blog is and very possibly own one. So strap on your seatbelts, grab a coffee and get ready! Because I'm about to take you on a jouey through the mystical realms of blog promotion. And here it goes:
Creating A Buzz:
Many bloggers overlook the importance of such a significant blog marketing strategy. Now I want to ask you a few questions:
- Why do people visit your blog?
- What makes your blog so special?
- What is so different about your blog compared to your competitors?
Do you understand where I am coming from? Let me ask you another question. Would you rather visit a blog that is entertaining, that is unique and unlike any other blog in the blogosphere, something which really makes you laugh, something that has the potential to reduce you to tears? Or would you like to see a blog with articles that have been roughly scraped and reprinted from the article directories? Heck, I'd much prefer the first option any day!
You see there are three types of people within the blogging field. There are those who write for the purpose of writing, they have no idea that they can possibly ea a residual income from simply posting their thoughts on an online joual.
Then you get the ignorant, annoying and absolutely pathetic so called "inteet marketers" who create scripts that create thousands of blogs per minute and thousands of posts per second. These people have no intention whatsoever of entertaining human beings, their only motif is to ea a little income from AdSense through a technique what people would now call 'splogging' and trust me, their days are almost over.
The last category is where you want to be. These types of people write for the purpose of entertaining, informing and communicating with their blogship, and at the same time they are also trying to ea a decent income from such programs as AdSense. These people have got their priorities straight and realize that to get the most from their blog they must create a buzz and excitement that will in tu have visitors coming back again and again. One very strong characteristic that these certain people employ is they write their posts in a way that will not only spark their blogship's emotions but they also cleverly craft their posts in a way which will attract the search engine spiders to visit and index their blog high up within the search engine rankings.
But the truly successful bloggers realize that in order to lead a successful blog there must be a reason for people to visit. This reason must be a strong reason, it must be entertaining, informative and different from all the other blogs. Here are some guiding factors which have helped me spark lots of interest within my blogship:
- Humour
- Entertainment
- New stuff
- News
- Giving away freebies
I promise that by mixing these ingredients and stirring them into your blog you will leave you having hungry, loyal visitors waiting in line to see your next post. If not, then I give you permission to slap me over the face with a wet sardine.
So there you have it! Welcome to the wonderful world of blog promotion. Now get out of here and create a buzz for your blog, create excitement, create controversy and most of all have fun doing it!
Brent Tuer, 17, is a young and successful netrepeneur who specializes in the wonderful world of blogging and promotion. If you want to p!ss your pants laughing then I suggest you goto http://www.testipop.blogspot.com where you'll find the funniest inteet marketing information this crazy inteet has on offer!
What gives when foreign citizens attempt to bad-mouth other countries on inteational news blogs? Why is it okay for a British Citizen to dictate US Policy? Recently a few foreign citizens have been condemning the United States Military who will not yield to Inteational Terrorism or quit against the insurgents. One of the British Citizens and a pro-US Military man go at it. Listen to this exchange of verbal gun fire;
"And tell me oh wise one...who WINS a war? When a bomb rips a baby to pieces and a mother is screaming with misery"
"Oh I see you are denying our precision munitions now? You may as well be a bleeding heart liberal from NY? Listen to you talk."
You state; "It seems to me that American answer to everything is either BULLY, KILL, BE VIOLENT or LIE."
"Do I feel an inferiority complex from the UK? That great nation which we kicked your butts? That nation who wanted to rule the world and could not even take back the Falkland Islands, as some old vintage A-4s fired right thru your mighty warships? We have individual citizens giving more to help those needy Africans than your whole country has set aside. Do not diminish my great nation and do not mistake our acts of kindness as weakness? Who is lying? The former Middle East Dictator or you want to blame the US for everything, even GB backslide into the foot notes of great civilizations which once were. Check the name. My ancestors built the Plymouth Colony, while your good for nothing King tried to rule as a dictator."
The British subject had no further comment once again beaten into oblivion by logic and American Resolve. So the pro-US Military man stated in closing;
"I support fully the US Military, President of the United States of America, the war in Iraq, disarming Iran by any and all means possible, collapsing Hamas govement, killing and removing all insurgents and inteational terrorism World Wide. So tell us what do you support? Namecalling, weakness, usury and quitting; well no thanks."
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/
Think of a product or a service that your business provides to customers. This product may requires lots of instructions to assemble, tips to use efficiently, or simply requires lots of questions to be answered before it can be used. What are your options? Provide a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list on your website, OR write a FAQ Blog.
What will a FAQ Blog achieve that a simple FAQ List on your website cannot achieve?
FAQ Blog may be designed to answer one Frequently Asked Question per day in great details and is properly categorized for easy access. Answer may include some other tips and tricks useful for your customers. This approach can help your customers to become power users of your product / service and in tu become your emissary to the prospective customers.
Typically a Weblog has a comments feature, where a reader may post their comments, questions and appreciation. With proper moderation of comments, FAQ Blog can almost become a Customer Service center on Auto-pilot once there is a good collection of Frequently Asked Questions answered.
This Weblog can ultimately become a detailed and easily searchable manual of your product / service which serves dual purpose of satisfying existing customers and attracts prospective consumers.
Ideal businesses that may opt for FAQ blog are software development companies, consumer product companies, web hosting providers and insurance agents.
Harish Keshwani is a Strategic Blogging Consultant, Software Developer, Blogger and an Entrepreneur. He is focused on consulting and guiding small and medium businesses in setting up their blogs and managing it for them as an outsourced process.
He guides corporations of small and medium size to realize the potential of blogging for their business. With appropriate content, he helps companies to keep their existing customers satisfied and attract prospective customers. He promotes blogging as a marketing and customer response tool to the companies. One of his Business blogs was recently featured in FORBES - Best of Web under Small Business Category.
His contact information is:
Email: businessorati-at-gmail-dot-com
Company: Ideologic L.L.C.-A Small/Medium Business Blog Process Outsourcing Company.
Website: http://www.ideologicllc.com
Blog 1: http://www.ideologicllc.com/wp
Blog 2: http://businessworks.blogspot.com
- Featured on FORBES - Best of Web for Small Business Blog Category.
