Blogging for Business: How Content Can Improve Your Sales. Are you wondering how a blog can help your business? Are you trying to figure out how content can improve your sales? To learn more about the connection of blogging and content marketing, I interview Marcus Sheridan for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing. The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting). In this episode, I interview Marcus Sheridan, founder of The Sales Lion and author of the ebook Inbound and Content Marketing Made Easy. Marcus shares insights into the struggles marketers have to get results from business blogging. Share your feedback, read the show notes and get the links mentioned in this episode below! Listen Now Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed You can also subscribe via iTunes, RSS, Stitcher or Blackberry.
What blogging is today. How to Promote Your Blog With Social Media. Are you looking to use social media to promote your blog? Sharing your blog posts on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and even Tumblr can help your content gain significant exposure. But each social media platform is distinct with different benefits and abilities. You need a simple process to tailor your social sharing to generate as much engagement as you can on each of these platforms. Here’s a process you can use to ensure your posts get maximum mileage. Consider these steps and adapt them to the social platforms where you find your customers. #1: Tumblr I’ve been blogging since 1999 and have had my own hosted WordPress blogs since 2003.
Fortunately one day I realized that many of my best prospects were using Tumblr and decided to include it into my social media marketing. Tumblr makes it really easy to share your blog post. The HTML code is all ready to use, so I copy it just before publishing the blog post. Here’s how to share with the “text” option.
Voila! 1. 2. 25 Ways to Create Contagious Content [Infographic] 253Share 445Share 3.9KTweet 360Share 1.1KShare 360inShare Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing 25 Ways to Create Contagious Content [Infographic] Written by Jeff Bullas - 23 Comments Categories: Content Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing Content is the foundation for blogs and websites. The range and type of content that is available on a social web is extensive and includes multimedia such as videos, images and infographics and of course plain old simple text.
Content can achieve different objectives including 1. 2. 3. 4. The challenge is to come up with the ideas and the content that people find valuable and want to share. 25 Content Creation Tips Here are some ideas to help you create content that I have often applied myself. 1. Compile a list of 10 favourite blog posts from other blogs. 2. Ask your friends and colleagues for ideas. 3. Don’t be afraid to ask your readers for ideas. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. People love to hear about the latest products or apps. 9. 10. 11. 12. 23. 24. 25. 13 Tips to Find Time to Blog. “How do you find time to blog?” Is a question I’m often asked. For me, the answer is simple. I practice writing regularly. For you, the answer may be different. Understand that every blogger starts blogging like they’re on fire. When you first begin blogging, your initial passion drives you forward. As time go by, however, you can start to run out of ideas and if your blog is successful, you’re busier.
Break blogging tasks into smaller chunks. As a blogger, use a variety of these methods to produce your blog posts in smaller chunks of content that you can write in short periods of time. What’s your favorite tip for finding time to create a blog post? Happy marketing, Heidi Cohen Here are related articles in which you may be interested. Here’s Mack Collier’s input on Finding Time to Blog. Photo credit: The 4 Words That Will Get Your Email Opened.