Three common ways companies talk about themselves too much You know that person who loves to talk about themselves, but never seems to really listen? Or the college lecturer who doesn’t seem to notice that the class is falling asleep? Well, a lot of companies are like that too. If you’re talking about yourself too [...]
Never be stuck again – here’s 50 FREE business blog ideas
This is better than free cake. If you are trying to come up with ideas for your business blog, I’ve done the work for you wirh this free report. It’s 50 Business Blog Ideas. These are more than one-offs. They’re thought-starters: idea-generators you can come back to again and again. You also can use this [...]
Stuck? 10 thought starters to generate great business blog ideas
“What do I write about?” I hear this question a lot from people who are trying to maintain a business blog. Here’s some tactics to get your thoughts flowing and help generate a few ideas. Maybe you haven’t written anything anything your business blog for a while because you don’t know what to write about. You’re [...]
Do you make these common headline mistakes?
Are your headlines working for your business blog? Are they luring in readers, or are potential clients skipping your posts because of them? Headlines the first chance you have to reel in customers. If you’re like me, you scan headlines and read what seems interesting to you. And, if you’re also like me, you get [...]
Reader question: “I can’t come up with one idea for my blog!”
It’s not easy to come up with blog ideas in a vacuum, so readers are welcome to write in for free business blog ideas. Lola is in a crowded field (and she knows it) – selling online marketing e-books and tutorials to making money. But although she can come up with book contents, she’s having [...]
Why you should give content away free (and ways to make it easier)
By the nature of a blog, you’re giving away a lot of information for free. How can that possibly help your business — and how can you turn those visitors into paying customers? Here are some ideas for creating free content while keeping the good stuff for those who pay. It’s OK to give [...]
Free business blog ideas!
The more you blog, the better your chances of attracting new customers. Are you having trouble coming up with ideas for blog posts? There’s a million great tips on coming up with blog post ideas – like this one I just read – but sometimes there’s nothing better than a little brainstorm session. If you [...]
Top blog posts and what you can learn from them
Problogger has a great series of case studies where they ask blog authors which were their most successful posts. Here’s a quick summary of top posts and how those lessons can be applied to business or corporate blogs. Simple but effective list Leo Babauata from Zen Habits said his most popular blog post was “10 [...]
Can boring blog posts be good for business? Yes!
With all the pressure for each blog post to be brilliant to increase Web traffic, I loved the case study about this business blog because the posts were the most boring things I had ever seen! However, they were not boring to the target market, which is the whole point. Newsflash: Aprilaire increases Web traffic [...]
