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Atricle Dump - Business Blog Savvy: Avoiding the 8 Pitfalls of Do-It-Yourself Blogging
Today we want to talk about your business model. Now that you have decided on your target market, identified a raft of potential products and figured out how you want to build your list, you need to create your business model.Your business model Your business model is the package you design to bring your market, products and list together to turn them into a profit-making system. We might use all sorts of scary sounding words like formal organization, strategic plan and tactical steps. But we don’t need to – ‘profit-making system’ will do.<
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers
Many medical billing agencies are actually full blown stores that do over the counter and prescription sales. Because this isn't a standard practice, this functionality is usually considered an add-on when purchasing your DME software. Not only is the software portion an add-on but there is some hardware that comes with it as well. We're going to give a brief overview of the retail sales setup so billers will know how they work and how they tie in with the medical billing procedure.In a typical medical billing procedure, the patient had some work done off site at a facility
You’ve heard all the hype, listened to a few podcasts and teleseminars, and finally sorted out for yourself how blogging can really work for your targeted niche of readers and potential clients. You've set up your business blog.
Now, you may be asking yourself, “If I’m so smart at my business, why do I have a dumb do-nothing blog?”
Here are a few of the pitfalls of creating your blog without any guidance from blogging experts:
1. You don’t know how to use your blogging software, yet you expect to look like an expert and build credibility. How could you know? Blogs haven’t been around that long, and the blogging software is continually being upgraded. You need to learn how to use your blog features that increase your findability on the Internet and readership. For example, you need to regularly use trackback, pinging, and permalinks features.
2. You are writing in a vacuum, without knowing what questions your clients want answered. You haven’t done any keyword research, or asked your current clients what they’d like to read. Even worse, you under the impression that a blog should be like an online diary. You are writing about your personal life and details, detracting from the on-target, focused purpose of your blog as a business building tool.
3. You haven’t researched other blogs in your field, or spent any time on them, leaving comments. You need to get out there and raise your hand in the blogosphere, so people will know you’re there. You also need to know what’s going on in your field.
4. You haven’t put a subscription form on your blog, and you don't understand the whole RSS feed thingy. Your readers can’t find you or know when you have updated your blog.
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers a
As an infopreneur, always remember you are dealing with people. And people have emotions. These emotions are powerful drivers, governing almost all decisions they make - including buying decisions.To be a successful infopreneur, your information must appeal to any one (or better still, more than one) of these very important emotions:* Fear* Greed* Vanity* Lust* Pride* Envy* LazinessThese are powerful emotions. Yes, they are 'negative' emotions - but still, they are important. Let's look at a few case studies and exampl
Now, you may be asking yourself, “If I’m so smart at my business, why do I have a dumb do-nothing blog?”
Here are a few of the pitfalls of creating your blog without any guidance from blogging experts:
1. You don’t know how to use your blogging software, yet you expect to look like an expert and build credibility. How could you know? Blogs haven’t been around that long, and the blogging software is continually being upgraded. You need to learn how to use your blog features that increase your findability on the Internet and readership. For example, you need to regularly use trackback, pinging, and permalinks features.
2. You are writing in a vacuum, without knowing what questions your clients want answered. You haven’t done any keyword research, or asked your current clients what they’d like to read. Even worse, you under the impression that a blog should be like an online diary. You are writing about your personal life and details, detracting from the on-target, focused purpose of your blog as a business building tool.
3. You haven’t researched other blogs in your field, or spent any time on them, leaving comments. You need to get out there and raise your hand in the blogosphere, so people will know you’re there. You also need to know what’s going on in your field.
4. You haven’t put a subscription form on your blog, and you don't understand the whole RSS feed thingy. Your readers can’t find you or know when you have updated your blog.
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers
“Once Upon a Cubicle there was a man who wanted out He knew he couldn’t stay here but still was filled with doubt The thought of no weekly paycheck turned his smile into a pout But ‘A business startup is my heaven’ was all that he could shout!”Funny doggerel, you’d say, but this is the kind of dilemma so many men and women go through every day. The dream of being your own boss and living a more wholesome life versus the loss of security of a paycheck is a huge battle. But free sticky notes or the lack of it is keeping fewer and fewer dreamers in jobs that don’t r
2. You are writing in a vacuum, without knowing what questions your clients want answered. You haven’t done any keyword research, or asked your current clients what they’d like to read. Even worse, you under the impression that a blog should be like an online diary. You are writing about your personal life and details, detracting from the on-target, focused purpose of your blog as a business building tool.
3. You haven’t researched other blogs in your field, or spent any time on them, leaving comments. You need to get out there and raise your hand in the blogosphere, so people will know you’re there. You also need to know what’s going on in your field.
4. You haven’t put a subscription form on your blog, and you don't understand the whole RSS feed thingy. Your readers can’t find you or know when you have updated your blog.
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers
Strategies to help produce your brochure, advertisment or direct mail. And make it achieve more sales.1. Attract & keep the customer's eyeYour customer must be kept glued to your words. They may leave at any point of your copy so keep it attractive and relevant to their needs, right through to their decision to purchase.Words, pictures and the customer:Don't go overboard with pictures, its words that sell. You'll need your product photo of course but its the caption or headline that will make the difference. And the headline will be a b
3. You haven’t researched other blogs in your field, or spent any time on them, leaving comments. You need to get out there and raise your hand in the blogosphere, so people will know you’re there. You also need to know what’s going on in your field.
4. You haven’t put a subscription form on your blog, and you don't understand the whole RSS feed thingy. Your readers can’t find you or know when you have updated your blog.
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers
Pay-per-click programs (PPC’s) allow you to buy a position in a search engine results' page by bidding on search terms selecting the price you wish to pay for each visitor your receive. If someone clicks on your ad, you receive them to your site or webpage. knowing this means you could get cheap traffic for an affiliate site and pocket the difference from the commissions you earn.In addition, you only pay for people who actually click on your link (for banner ads, you often have to pay when someone sees it.) Bids usually start at around five cents per click but its now getting
5. You haven’t put any images on your blog and your blog doesn’t look as neat and tidy as your business is. It doesn’t reflect your business image or brand.
6. You haven’t put any content-appropriate ads on your blog, that don’t distract from your own products. Your blog has a non-professional, non-business look and feel to it.
7. You haven’t used categories for your blog posts and your readers are confused about wide-ranging subjects you write about. What is your core message? What is the focus of your blog? And important question you must answer for your readers: What’s in your blog for them?
8. You haven’t written anything for a month. When you’ve got a blog that has lack-luster traffic, your enthusiasm for writing begins to wane. Why bother posting, if no one is reading your words of wisdom? Then your blog slips even further, and begins to look like a ghost town. Worse, it’s still up on the Web, and people will find you and decide you maybe don’t care, went out of business, or changed your mind.
Here’s what is promised by having a blog:
- Search engines will find you better – website traffic galore
- Instant credibility in your area of expertise
- A way to communicate with people interested in your field
- Dialogue through comments with potential clients
- Increased sales of your products, whether tangible goods, informational products, or services
How could you possibly know the most effective blogging strategies and tactics without learning and guidance by experts? Sure, blogs are for everyone and the software makes it easy and cheap for anyone to start a blog.
But a professional business blog that drives traffic and gets clients must be optimized correctly and treated as a valuable marketing strategy.
Here are some solutions:
1. Study the professional business blogs in the blogosphere and model their strategies.
2. Buy an ebook on how to set up and optimize a professional business blog
3. Take an advanced course in blogging (not one that just tells you how to get a free account and set it up, but one to explain how to optimize for business.)
4. Hire a team of professional blog experts to coach you in using your blog for your business.
5. Hire a business blog consultant team to help you tweak your blog, or do an extreme makeover
6. Delete your blog and sta
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