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Gevril and Haurex Italia dinner during Baselworld in March 2011 with Larry Brauner standing in the background.
Baselworld 2012 March 8-15.
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Before You Begin Blogging
Filed Under Blogging, Networking and Marketing Strategy, Search Engines, Social Media and Social Networking Sites
The decisions you make and the actions you take before you set up your marketing blog are at least as important as the steps you take once your blog is up and running.
Proper planning can help you avoid many false starts and much backtracking.
Start by asking yourself basic marketing questions such as these:
- How will you monetize your blog? For ideas refer to Blogs and Blogging for Fun and Profit.
- What will you sell?
- Which are your target markets?
- Can you reach them through advertising? Offline business networking?
- Can you connect with them at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Direct Matches, Yuwie or Ryze? While you’re building credibility with the search engines, you can use online social networking and forums to enlist subscribers and readers for your blog.
- What can you write about in your blog or what other content can you offer that will attract them?
- Which keywords are they searching for that are relevant to your project?
- Which keyword searches can you realistically compete for?
- How will you position your products and brand yourself?
Asking these questions up front will make it possible to develop a coherent plan of action, and we will consider them in coming weeks.
You will need to choose a home for your blog, and that raises another key question.
Will you join a blogging community such as Blogger.com or Wordpress.com — or will you host your blog independently? I explain in Creating a Home for Your Blog why serious bloggers usually prefer to host their sites independently, and later we’ll look at what that entails.
And you will also need to evaluate your marketing and technical skills. Where are you on the learning curve? What will it take to get up to speed? Will you require some amount of personal guidance to get off to the right start?
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Tags: Blogging, branding, how to start a blog, Marketing, marketing blog, monetize, online social networking, personal branding, search engine marketing, Search Engines, social networking
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I have been following your blog for quite some time and it will be great to hear from you your tips on how to monetize my blogs.
Another thing I will watch out for is the REAL advantage of having my own domain instead of free hosting. Although I already heard some, they did not really convince me, not yet.
Thanks.
My main focus will be on search engine marketing, generating targeted search engine traffic.
Creative keyword research, content development, and social media marketing working together can have a profound effect.
Keyword research and management need to be ongoing, so that corrections can be made along the way.
Thanks for your comment.
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“Proper planning can help you avoid many false starts and much backtracking.”
I totally believe in this. If you have a smart plan of how your gonna start your marketing blog and everything about it then you will not be lost in the process and will know what to do in case there will be some problems. this will also avoid you from getting your blog hibernating.
Also Katie, when you started it in the right time that you planned to, then you will encounter least problems in your marketing.
Doing that step of asking your self is one of the great idea to know if you really fit on that field. As long as you know the answer in the question, a great percent of succeeding in the chosen field.