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What is a Business Blog?
Although Blog was the most requested word of 2004 as per
Merriam Webster Dictionary Online, there are quite a few people,
for whom the word Blog is still unknown.
Blog is an online journal of events, raves, rants of the
people. When blog first came, it was gladly adopted by teenagers
and later by adults to write about their daily lives. Then
writers and journalists entered the mix, writing about books and
investigative reports on their blogs. Blogs gained prominence in
2004 US Presidential Elections. Meanwhile few innovative people
invented "Business Blogs", "Corporate Blogs" and "Company Blogs".
Suddenly Blogs started appearing on the Company web pages.
Somewhere along the line, people discovered that search engines
like Google and Yahoo were displaying Blogs, in most cases, above
other search results. Impact of this discovery was huge!
Corporations started writing blogs in the hope, to get more
prospective customers to visit their websites.
So what exactly is a Business Blog? It is a blog about a
business. It is a carefully planned journal about company
products and/or services, tips and tutorials about using
company's products. At times, customer service issues are
addressed using a blog. Some companies have put up white papers
on blogs, while others are achieving branding of their products
on the blog. On rare occasions, blogs are used to launch or test
market the product.
Here is a classic example of business blog. The Stonyfield
Farm has not one, but four blogs to interact with customers and
community about each of their four product streams. Each of these
blogs does more than just praising their products. They provide
service to the community. Read this blog here:
http://www.stonyfield.com/weblog/
Larger corporations are able to allocate technical writers
and/or sales and marketing personnel to write blogs for the
company. To a certain extent, medium sized companies may be able
to allocate resources for blogging. However small businesses
maybe at a disadvantage, when it comes to writing and maintaining
Blogs. Mostly a small business is one person show, trying to
manage every aspect of business. Although, someone who owns the
business or is experienced in the business is most suitable
person to write the business, but now there is an option
available - Business Blog Process Outsourcing.
How does Business Blog Process Outsourcing work?
Process starts with a thorough study of client's business. If
client has a website, blog is embedded in it. If website does not
exist, it can be created. Next, a series of posts (articles) are
prepared, covering various products or services in consultation
with the client. Client approves these posts and they are posted
on a pre-selected schedule. Other services include, popularizing
the blog by submitting it to various Blog Directories, making
blog available via feeds and RSS Readers, optimize the blog for
the search engine.
Blog posts generally receive comments which are good and at
times not so good. Service includes moderation of all comments.
All issues are resolved in a positive manner and in consultation
with the client.
Take-away: With 80% people turning to internet to search for
products and services, small businesses cannot afford not to be
easily findable on search engines. Business blog is an easiest
way to improve search engine rankings, provide customer response,
tips and tutorials to better use company's products and
services.
Harish Keshwani is a Strategic Blogging Consultant, Software
Developer, Blogger and an Entrepreneur. He is focused on
consulting and guiding small and medium businesses in setting up
their blogs and managing it for them as an outsourced
process.
He guides corporations of small and medium size to realize the
potential of blogging for their business. With appropriate
content, he helps companies to keep their customers satisfied and
in close touch. He promotes blogging as a marketing and customer
response tool to the companies.
His contact information is: Email:
businessorati-at-gmail-dot-com Company: Ideologic L.L.C.-A
Small/Medium Business Blog Process Outsourcing Company. Website:
http://www.ideologicllc.com
Blog: http://www.ideologicllc.com/wp
MORE RESOURCES updated Sat. July / 27 / 2024
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