Thursday, January 29, 2015

4 Steps to Promote Your Business Blog


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Knowing how to create a blog, and what content the blog should have are extremely important, but how do you get people to know about your blog? You could have valuable information that people are missing out on because you do not know how to start promoting your blog. There a few steps to take to ensure that your blog, and all of its useful content, is seen.

Leverage a Website is one approach to take in promoting your blog. This means adding links to your main website navigation. You can also add blog links to your homepage or link internally to other articles that are relevant to your blog post.

Using your social media presence is another option.  Most of you probably have a Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram account that you can use to add a link for your blog. The more followers or friends you have on those social media sites will lead to more potential viewers, and maybe even customers. It is also useful to engage in meaningful conversations with others. So, it is important to have people comment and take those comments into consideration.


Including you blog in email marketing can help you to better promote your blog. First, you need to use your buyer personas to segment leads, and then send out relevant blog posts. When an email newsletter is sent out you can include relevant articles from you blog posts in those emails. It is also important to create a weekly or monthly blog email to effectively promote your blog.

Connecting with networks can be a valuable tool in getting the word out about your blog.  One way to do this is to publish a press release. You can also add your blog articles to a relevant resource center or add a link to business cards that you hand out.

After you take these steps to promote your posts your can analyze trends by looking at the number of views to see how effective your promotions efforts were and make changes accordingly. 

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