I recently wrote a post, entitled, What’s Wrong With Most Business Blogs, in which I outlined a failure I see in many business blogs – that is the blogs are too much about the business, when they should be more…
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How to improve your business blog with crowdsourcing
Tagged with: business blog cotent ideas, crowdsourcing for business, Jeff Howe
Posted in How to Blog
Posted in How to Blog
How to plan your blog (infographic)
Here is a detailed infographic from Heidi Cohen on planning your business blog. It covers nine essential elements to make your busness blogging a sucess – including your goals, your audience, your content and your promotional and measurment tools. We write about these aspects…
9 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts …. Faster!
Together with the question ‘how many words should a blog post be?’, I’m often asked ‘how long should I spend writing a blog post?’ by business people and again, it is difficult to give an exact answer as it can…
Outsourcing Your Social Media – What It Involves
“We do not have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is – HOW WELL WE DO IT”. – Erik Qualman. It is swiftly becoming the situation that using social media is no longer a choice…
Tagged with: blogging training, content creation, how to blog, lorna sixsmith, outsourcing your blogging
Posted in Blogging for Success, Blogs, How to Blog
Posted in Blogging for Success, Blogs, How to Blog
Find It Friday! Does site speed affect my Google ranking?
Welcome to Find It Friday in which we help you find the answers to your blogging questions. The Question This week’s question may seem a bit techie..but bear with us..it is an important element of how your blog ranks in…
Tagged with: blogging questions, Google ranking, how to blog, SEO, site speed
Posted in Find It Friday, How to Blog, Technical Tips!
Posted in Find It Friday, How to Blog, Technical Tips!
10 Lessons from 5 Years of Blogging
I’ve been blogging for Garrendenny Lane for almost five years and I know I would probably cringe if I were to dare to look back at my first posts, particularly as they were for a business blog rather than a…
Tagged with: 10 blogging lessons, blogging tips, how to blog, tips for effective blogging, what I learned from blogging
Posted in Blogs, For Beginners, How to Blog, Marketing
Posted in Blogs, For Beginners, How to Blog, Marketing
How To Win With The Web
We have both mentioned the benefits of blogging in the past which include improved SEO, increase brand awareness and as a method to gain free press coverage. I also find that things seem to happen in threes and I’ve recently…
Tagged with: Digital Hub, Garrendenny Lane, how to blog effectively, how to start blogging, lorna sixsmith, outsourcing your blogging, the digital hub, winning with web
Posted in Blogs, How to Blog, Marketing
Posted in Blogs, How to Blog, Marketing
Why Your Blog Links Should Open in a New Window
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you click a link on a website or within a blog that the original source (e.g the blog) sometimes disappears and you are then faced with a decision to either return to the…
Tagged with: blogging tips, how to blog, how to blog effectively, how to create hyperlinks, how to link in a blog post
Posted in Blogs, For Beginners, How to Blog, Tips
Posted in Blogs, For Beginners, How to Blog, Tips
How to write the perfect blog post
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Are Blog Comments Important? Here’s How To Get More Blog Comments
Communication with customers is key in business particularly if your business is an online one. They need to know you exist but also more about what you can do for them – not just in terms of product features but…
Posted in Blogging for Success, Blogs, How to Blog