The question of the day is " Should you start a blog? "
People around the globe are blogs. Companies, CEOs, lawyers, journalists, stewardesses. Even dogs and babies.
Why? Because it can. It& 39;s that simple.
Blogging requires little or no learning curve. If the type, speaking on a phone, bark, chew, record a movie on vacation, you can blog.
Blogs have done editing the domain of those who know HTML and design, to make this powerful tool available to the rest of us.
That vacation in the Far East, the birthday of his grandmother, the company latest product offering, its new rum cake recipe, his daughter of the first stage, the antics of the dog, what you think the film Garfield - can blog all this and much more.
A blog is an online journal or diary. What makes it ideal for expressing an opinion, the recording of her pregnancy blahs or announce its latest acquisition company.
People use them to communicate with family, for education, for business, and almost anything else you can imagine.
But one thing not all blogs get is a readership.
Unless your blog is just for your family or your business colleagues, is probably written with the hope that someone will read about what you think.
So many blogs are started with little or no effect. If you want to survive and blog, first begin by responding to their why.
If is written only for spiders search engines, then be prepared for no one but themselves to read your keyword rich spam.
Blogs demand readers. And for that you have to write about something worth reading.
Here are some tips to follow if you want human beings to read their blogs.
1. Stay on topic
Opinions are fine, but unless you are the CEO of Microsoft, very few people will want to know what you ate for breakfast. If you started your blog to your air rants and raves about the last movie he saw, better to speak of the films at least every post he writes.
2. Write in a conversational tone English
Forget what your teacher taught him. Write the way you speak, or you end sounding uptight and unnatural. And nobody said tightass copy ... Even from the CEO of Microsoft.
3. Sea views
Your blog is not a company or a brochure of the press, but a way for people aka your target audience, to know the real you. The worst sin that can commmit is to bore the readers. Most people respond better to an honest opinions more pleasant platitudes. And if you get a few rude or nasty comments in response to your posts, accept the fact that you can not please everyone
4. Make your posts
Infuse laugh with his natural talent for a better response from your target audience. And if not everyone appreciates your particular brand of humor, read the last sentence in the previous paragraph.
5. Stay informed
If is written about your profession, you& 39;d better know what you are talking about. Word is spreading at the speed of thought in the blogospere and if you are trying to become an authority on something you know very little of, prepare yourself for the brickbats.
6. Stay
Write about the latest developments in their field. Nobody wants to read things that has existed for a long time, or that hundreds of other bloggers have chronicled.
7. Update often, but not wear
Most die from Blogger blogs burnout - bloggers trying to update too frequently. Stick to a publishing schedule that is humanly possible for you. If you have updated your blog and find a story you want to share, save it for later.
On other hand, not only because then you feel you have to stick to a schedule. Going a few days or even weeks without posting is fine if you really have nothing worth sharing.
So still wonder if you should blog?
If you think you can meet the requirements above, and know why, then, as the shoe people say - just do it.
Resistance is futile.
Priya Shah publishes an ezine in internet marketing http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com by day and doubles as Maniac Blog Blog night http://www.blog-maniac.com Brandz http://www.blogbrandz. Com is the legitimate offspring of his affair with the blogosphere.
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