Tag: blogging
How Blogging is Good for Small Businesses…
One of the defining features of a small, start-up business is usually a distinct lack of funds. As such any cheap means of promotion can be a real boon for increasing brand awareness and driving transactions. Luckily for small businesses, blogging is quickly becoming a very effective marketing tool, which costs next to nothing and [...]
Why Building A Blogging Community Is More Important Than Anything Else
When you start out blogging you’re going to hear a lot of different things on what you should be concentrating on first. You should focus on SEO, keywords, search engine marketing, building back links, or having a great commenting system. Those things are great and will have to be taken care of in time but [...]
The Deep, Dark Blog Hole and How to Avoid Getting Sucked In
Not so long ago, we started a blog. The goal was simple: get the word out about our new business venture, and gain an audience before launching a product in the coming months. It all sounded so simple. Create good content. Work on SEO. Comment. Guest post. Build a community. No one warned us of [...]
Get the Most Out of Your Social Media Interns
There is no bigger buzz word than social media and it couldn’t be more trendy to hire interns to “take care of it”, but just because this college crowd has been using Facebook for years, does it really mean they will be able to grow your business online? Just Hiring Any Gen Y Won’t Do [...]
Finding an Opportunity and Turning it Into a Reality
The Spark Deciding to create a website that seeks to instructs others is an arduous undertaking. Once the decision is made, the laborious work of bringing your take and insight on a particular topic to a curious and information-hungry audience begins. Having dabbled in writing articles for other movie websites then for my own movie [...]
How to Monetize your Blog Without Advertising, Affiliates or any Product
If you read the advice of almost any A-list blogger who actually makes a reasonable living through his or her blogging efforts, they will all tell you to “run it like a business.” Even in my recent interview with Jared, one of the founders here at Under30CEO, he emphasized the importance of treating your blog [...]
Finding Your Passion is Like Getting Married
A question tweeted by @DanSchawbel: “Who do you think wins: The person who has the most talent or the most drive?” Answer: “Results from the question: 90% drive over talent” What things do you have drive for? They are the things you are passionate about! Passion rules the game. When someone gets passionate about something [...]
Leveraging 7 Types of Social Media for Branding
It is impossible to ignore the power of social media. Everyday it is integrated more and more into the marketing of businesses – both small and large. Even brick and mortar business can take advantage of this by focusing on a specific region. However don’t bother if you will just “join”, you need to be [...]
