Bloger Weekly

Weekly Discussion 2

Chad Bronze — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:08:20 +0000

What’s blogging got to do with business? So much! I have put together a small list of how the two are related.

1) Informing your costumers. Many, perhaps even most of your costumers have internet access – be it at home, work, a public library, school, a friend’s house, ect. So for you, the internet should be an important and valuable tool. Many consumers hear about a product or service from someone they know. Their next step is usually to search up your product or service online. This is their primary choice to find out more because it is easy for them to do. Use a blog to let them know A. The name of your product, B. What your product is, C. How much it costs, D. Where they can get it, E. Why it is better than the competition, F. How to reach you. These are all very important for a business’s blog to have.

2) Selling to your costumers. Don’t have an actual store? Is your product not in stores yet? Don’t despair! Make an account on eBay, then link to your products on your blog. Make your blog as informative and eye-catching as possible. These are two tried and true ways to get people to buy from your blog. Or, if you’d rather, use CafePress or something like it and link to it. Be creative and DO YOUR HOMEWORK, see what other people are selling online for! Don’t over price!

3) Learn about your costumers. You’d be amazed at how much you can learn from your costumers. Have many topics that you write about. See what people like. Use this new data for your products or services. See what your readers search for. See what they click. This could provide you with a constant stream of information. That being said, try to keep your blog around your original target audience (teens, kids, boys, girls ect.).

So our question for you this week is: should business hire someone to make an actual website for them or should they use a WordPress blog?

Thank you

for joining us this week for the weekly discussion and we hope to get your answer and hear from you. Be sure to come back every Monday for a new discussion.

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Topics for Blogging

Weekly Discussion 1

Chad Bronze — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:45:35 +0000

This week the stuff of Bloger Weekly have decided to talk about why people blog. I sat down and brainstormed ideas, and I thought back to when I opened my very first blog. At that time I was plainly owning a blog. I had no one good reason to do it. You could say that it was my experimental blog, but that will be misleading because I learned new things from each of my blogs. After a few months going at it I decided to move on to a different subject. Thus followed my third, fourth, and this blog. However, for the first time in my blogging career I am making up what I write. Of course, I first write it down, revise, discuss, and only then type, but it was still very different. In all my past blogs I was constantly updating because of something that already existed (like my last blog, which I am still going at). This time I don’t just bring the news, I also make them.

Enough about me. Now let’s get to the real reasons why people blog. I found three good reasons:

1) It’s easy to do. Unlike an actual website, in a blog everything is already there. It’s like going to an artist and telling them how to draw something instead of drawing it yourself. It’s not all that your’s, and frankly, most people are okay with that (I know I am). So your job is to write and drive views; just give the behind the scenes work to WordPress (or whatever server you are using.

2) It’s profitable. Not many people realize the full potency of their blog. Placing ads can rake in hundreds on a good blog. Selling merchandise with your blog’s logo on it can bring in money, too. Sponsoring is another option. Be creative. Think outside the box.

3) People get to see a piece of you. People get to see what you want them to see. What you post, what you sell, what you advertize, what you say, it’s all there for people to see. And believe it or not, they do.

So our discussion question for you this week is: How did you get into blogging and why?

Thank you

for joining us this week for the weekly discussion and we hope to get your answer and hear from you. Be sure to come back every Monday for a new discussion.

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Business & Blogging

Welcome To Bloger Weekly

Chad Bronze — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:46:31 +0000

Dear visitor,

First of all, we’d like to thank you for coming to our blog. This is post number one on the new website, Bloger Weekly. In this blog we will be discussing topics such as Blogging in business, why people blog, how blogging affects our lives, and more. This website was created using WordPress, which is a tool for building blogs. We strongly recommend building your own blog with WordPress. If you’d like us to review your blog for free and thus direct more views to it, please post your link by clicking comment. Be sure to browse our pages and blogroll.

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