1 – Send holiday greetings to your readers in a blog post.
2 – What can your blog readers look forward to this year? Summarize what you’ll be writing about (or hope to be writing about) in the coming months.
3 – How can you help your readers reach their New Year’s goals?
4 – This is typically a slow news time. What news can you announce on your blog and in a press release?
BONUS! BONUS! BONUS!
Bonus tip: Make an idea tree. Get your hands on a big piece of paper. Draw a straight line for the tree trunk. Write down every blog post idea that comes to mind where the branches and leaves should be. Keep the idea tree on your wall and add to it as ideas come to you.
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Let’s make this next year the best year for your business blog yet. Over the next 12 months I’m going to give you 365 blog post ideas, one for every day of the year.
Some of the blogging tips you might recognize from my blog post ideas book, but you can count on hundreds of new and fresh ideas coming your way, too. Read More »
There are more than a million food-related blogs, according to blog directory Technorati. The overwhelming majority of these are amateur food blogs, but some bloggers are professionals that use their blog to make money through affiliate marketing and product sales (especially cookbook sales). Others use their blog to promote a business such as a restaurant or photography business.
Let’s take a look at two successful bloggers who use their posts to support and promote their products and businesses.
101 Cookbooks: THE Food Blog Example to Behold
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You don’t want to kill your blog do you? If you commit any one of these business blogging offenses, you will lose readers and potential customers.
Thou shall not neglect blogging.
Yesterday I wrote about three small business blogs that rock at blogging. Before I found these blogs to showcase I visited dozens of others that simply stunk. They stunk because they had not been updated in months…or longer. I wondered if the mom and pop shops were still doing business!
If you blog, do it often. Make it a goal to blog every month AT A MINIMUM. Read More »
Business blogging is difficult no matter the industry or the size of the business. But blogging is no doubt more difficult when you don’t have a large budget for it and don’t have a staff to manage it. Despite that challenge, there are many small businesses that blog well.
If your goal is to increase website visitors and find new customers for your business with a blog, here are three small business blogs to mimic. Read More »
