Sometimes business users are at a loss as to what to post to their Twitter pages. Twitter used to prompt you with the question, â??What are you doing?â?, but that led to people posting such statements as, â??I am eating a grilled cheese sandwich.â? Hardly riveting information.
Recently Twitter switched its prompt question to â??Whatâ??s happening?â? perhaps in an attempt to guide users to broader posts. Not more than are my guidelines to the four main topic areas I recommend to my business clients who use Twitter.
Barbara Wayman, head of BlueTree Media, LLC, publishes The Stand Out Newsletter, an award-winning ezine for people who want to know how to leverage the power of marketing and public relations. Get your free subscription today at http://www.bluetreemedia.com/ezine.html
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Friday, March 12th, 2010How do I copy e-mails and paste them in a group blog post?, Blogger and Adsense ,Is there any way to choose ads to go on Blogger?
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I’d like to fix it, but I place the adsense in through a doohickey, and nowhere in the doohickey can you exchange that URL. Is blogger just going to do this involuntarily? Do I have to worry about it?ve tried everything you can possibly do…anyone out there able to help?
I have a group blog and I am the arbitrator. My group e-mails me updates and a TRY to copy them and paste them into the blog. It doesn’t work so I have been copying everything word for word. HELP!
I’ve tried right-clicking, Control C & then V…pasteing the e-mails into a word doc first….nothing works…what gives???
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There is a further way to paste inside the post editor (other than right click mouse).
Copy your text. Leave your cursor flashing inside the post editor. Use your menu bar, left click mouse on Edit/paste. All your text will appear inside your post editor! Publish post.Blogs are usually aimed for the organic traffic from the SEOs. Search Engines like blogs because their information is constantly updating. You can also optimize the content of your blog for the specific keywords so that your articles would get more attention of the SEOs. Don’t forget that blogs have the informative aim. So if you promote some air force there, don’t overstuff it, because the visitors will not like it. People will come to your blog to look for the information. Try to place forward your visitors as much useful information as possible, so that they want to stay your blog again and bookmark your page.Unlike the websites, blogs are more personal place in the Internet. You can personalize your blog by offering some information about yourself, count a picture of your dog. It will make your visitors be loyal to you and stay your blog more evenly. Be yourself and share your trustworthy point of view when you write for your blog. You can also write from the first person there, it will make you closer to your readers.Besides the SEO, the other way for generating more traffic to your blog is the links exchanging. You can exchange links with other blogs and as a result you will receive traffic from the other blogs as well as the other blogs will get visitors from your blog. Don’t be courteous that it may produce all your visitors go to the other blogs. Link exchanging strategy proved its effectiveness. It lets more traffic stay your blog. Even if some of them leave your page, those who are interested in your air force will stay with you.Don’t underestimate the blogging. This simple and not expensive method can play a main role in the promotion of your internet based business and help you make cash from home.
Tips for Wannabe Bloggers to Post Their First All-important Blog Entry
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Have you been bitten by the blogging bug like millions of others in this world? Then, you must undertake treatment straightway by publishing your first blog entry. In order to make the treatment more open, you need to have certain supplements such as feature and appealing content with an eye-catching title and a blogging space to post your content. Wannabe bloggers with limited or no computer knowledge face difficulty in making their first blog on the Internet, though they have their content ready. For their convenience, some simple-to-know tips are mentioned not more than.
· Resort to major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN to look for free blogging websites or air force. Initially, a free service can serve your purpose well. WordPress, Blogger and Blogspot are some of the standard free blog sites. But, there are hundreds of other websites that place forward you free blog space.
· Register the name of your blog that is reasonably unique and attention-grabbing. But, be careful about using exaggerated words. Philosophically right words can do the trick.
· Make use of the built-in blog templates offered by the website or make your own, if you’re not interested in free-for-alls.
· Invest a excellent amount of time in designing your blog template from the scratch. Stay away from potential disturbing factors like children, neighbors, pets etc. Microsoft FrontPage is an effectual tool to aid in your design.
· After getting your template ready, the next vital task is to upload it to your new blog’s URL address. Make sure that it is loaded properly with all your necessary features.
· Now make an auspicious beginning by clicking on the ‘Make Post’ link on your blog. The window will reload to come up with a number of text boxes to fill in.
· Place your fingers into surgical procedure on the keyboard to insert your first blog post information like post title, summary, body etc. If your content is yet to be written, you can look around to find fantastic post thoughts. You can go down the memory lane to write about a particular incident or event that is worth-mentioning.
· Once you make your first blog entry, waste no time to let your acquaintances and family members know about your blog URL. This act is reasonably helpful as it brings your initial readers.
· While posting your first blog entry, you might have come across a text box called ‘Tags’ where you can place in a number of keywords related to your post. Visitors can get to know about your post if they use these keywords while searching for information over the Internet. This brings more traffic to your blog.
· If you own a website that deals in a specific product or service, you can promote it through your blog. Write relevant posts highlighting your product or service. Don’t forget to link keywords to your website in the post body. Place only an appropriate number of links in the body.
· Links can be easily place by selecting a particular word and then clicking on the ‘link’ button above the ‘body’ text box. A small dialog box will appear with the selected word. Simply place your website URL e.g. http://www.xyz.com/ in the appropriate box and you’re done.
These are the simple steps you can take to make your first blog and first blog entry. The successful posting of one entry can certainly allure you to add more posts to your blog. Blogs are now a powerful medium to express your views, thoughts and opinions. They can also promote your business in a huge way. So, HAPPY POSTING!!!
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20 Best Blog Post Ideas for Small Business Blogging
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Copyright (c) 2009 OnlineBizU.com
“So, what do I blog about each time?” is a question I evenly get from clients. To keep your blog committed and healthy, I recommend blogging at least 3 times per week. But, that notion is overwhelming for many. Even though you may be an expert in a topic, your mind may go completely blank when it comes time to blog, and then at other times when you’re not blogging, your thought cup runneth over.
The primary thing to remember is that blog posts don’t have to be long and complicated. You’re not writing an article, a report or a thesis. Many times a blog post is only a paragraph consisting of a few sentences that contain your thoughts about a touch. Now, doesn’t that sound simpler than composing a 600-word post each time you sit down to blog?
Here are 20 thoughts you can use to help you make a blog post when you’re stuck for an thought:
1. Current events. Can you link what you do in your business to a current event? Open up your daily newspaper or your RSS news reader and see what’s happening in the world, your country, your state, or your city. Give your opinion about the event and a solution, if you have it, and relate that to your business if you can.
2. Trends in your industry. I read constantly and subscribe to more industry publications than I have time to review. But, there are a handful that I do evenly read, and it’s to those that I look to for what the trends seem to be. When you blog about the trend, place your unique perspective on it, or write a rebuttal post, disagreeing with the relevance of the trend.
3. Get personal. Tell a tale about what’s happening in your life or in your business that would be useful or instructive for your readers. Chronicle both your highs and lows, your wins and your struggles. One key to successful blogging is getting personal with your readers. The more “real” you are with your readers, the better your reader gets to know you and starts to like and trust you. You become a “real, live” human being to them who faces similar issues that they face.
4. Top 10. Most of my writing is in the form of a Top 10 list because it’s an simple way for me to outline the points I want to make and then go back and fill in the details for each point. In this case, each of your points for a topic can become an individual blog post, and when all the points are complete, you can compile the full list for an article for your ezine or website.
5. Frequently questioned questions. If you’ve been in business for awhile, you know the questions that clients and prospective clients question you to answer over and over again. Instead of repeatedly responding to the same questions, write a series of blog posts that answer your target market’s most frequently questioned questions.
6. How you helped a client solve a problem. Clients hire you to solve a specific problem they’re having, whether they do that when they buy your service or your product. List 3-5 most recent problems that you have helped your clients solve. Make a post that talks about the problem and the solution you provided (either with your client’s consent, or by making it generic enough to hide the client’s identity) that becomes a learning experience for your readers.
7. Interview an expert. What people do your know and admire in your industry? If you admire them, chances are that members of your target market do, as well. Contact them for a fleeting email or recorded interview and question them 3-5 questions that you’d like to hear them answer about their lives, their businesses, industry trends, or how to solve a particular problem. Publish the interviews as blog posts, count audio and graphics if you have them.
8. Solicit and answer questions. Question your ezine subscribers or blog readers to question you their most pressing question related to what you do. I do this and get questions for 1-2 blog posts per week, and it helps me stay in touch with the needs of my readers, as well.
9. Review a touch. Read a excellent book lately related to your industry? Just bought a product to help you solve a problem? Reviews aren’t limited to the critics at the New York Times. Blog about your experience with a product, book, or service, highlighting both the high points and low points, and whether you would recommend that others use or buy it.
10. Read other blogs. Go to Google’s Blog Search or Technorati and find other blogs related to your industry or your target market. Add those to your blog reader and take an hour or two each week to read the posts on those blogs. Do you agree or disagree with the post? Have a further point of view? Reckon the blogger was on target but you want to expand on her point of view? Reading other blogs is a fantastic way to generate thoughts for your own blog.
11. Keep an thought file. Sometimes a blogging thought or concept will strike you when you don’t need (or want) to blog. Start a blog thought file by making a document or database to footstep your thoughts and thoughts. If you’re in the zone, go ahead and write the post, and then you can post it to your blog on a day when the thought well is dry.
12. Make a tutorial. There’s permanently a touch you can tell your target market how to do. Make a written, audio, or video tutorial of the process as your blog post. Depending on the complexity of the tasks, the tutorial may need to produced in multiple parts, like Part 1, Part 2, etc., which would make for multiple posts to your blog.
13. Share a positive/negative email. I evenly share exceptionally positive or negative emails I receive from people (without names to protect their identity as appropriate) either to celebrate kudos I’ve expected or to demonstrate how I responded to a particularly nasty or displeasing comment. I get the most mileage out of the negative emails, and I evenly question for pointer about how my readers might respond to the situation.
14. Take a tour. Take a self-made in-person or virtual tour of a touch useful to your readers. For example, if you’re a dating coach, tour the top 5 online dating sites and report your experiences as a client in each. If you’re a restaurant consultant, stay 3 local restaurants and evaluate what’s evenly overlooked in staff training based on your experience as a customer.
15. Write about a Twitter or Facebook update. You only get 140 characters in Twitter to write about a touch. If you need more space, or want to respond in greater part to a name’s Peep or Facebook status update, do so in your blog. Thought-provoking questions are evenly questioned on Twitter, and the answers may inspire you to blog.
16. Make a “Best of” list. What are the top 7 blogs to read in your industry? How about the top 5 people to watch? What about the 10 most useful online tools you use? Nothing attracts attention on a blog quicker than a list, so make one yourself or question your readers to help you in the process.
17. Report from an event. Attending a qualified trade show, conference, or networking event? You can report live about your experiences at the event on your blog. Talk about the workshops your attended, the vendors you met, the speaker you heard — the sky’s the limit!
18. Debunk a myth. Each industry is plagued with myths and fallacies about success/failure or what does/doesn’t work that the industry professionals want to see vanquished once and for all. Use your blog to debunk some of the most common myths/preconceptions/notions in your industry and set the record straight.
19. Talk to newbies. Picture yourself as a newbie in your industry once again. What do you know now that you didn’t know then? What questions did you question? What knowledge do you have that you reckon everyone knows? Getting back to the basics can help bring all of your blog readers up to speed.
20. Write about a client conversation. Many times I’m inspired to blog as an expansion or prolongation of a conversation I had with a client. The blog post focuses on a topic of the conversation, not the conversation itself. Typically the strategy/thought/practice you’ve discussed with one client will benefit your blog readers as well.
This is just the tip of a very large ice burg of thoughts for posts to your blog. Take a look around your life, your business, conversations with clients and colleagues, and what’s happening in the world around you. You’ll soon start to see more potentials for blog posts that you ever thought possible!