Great business blogging can add value to your business, create loyal customers and build trust in potential clients. You should help ensure your business bloggings is working effectively to draw clients in, not push them away.

Want to get your business blog in gear? Read below useful tips on business blogging.

Top business blogging tips
*Host on your own blog domain

*Get a real design
Try to skip the free themes for your business blog, and put some money toward hiring designer company to do the job right. Never underestimate the effectiveness of powerful design.

*Define an audience
Narrow your audience down to a specific niche that meshes with your company’s target market. Figure out what visitor wants out of your blog, and then write all your blog posts to that one. This will keep you focused on your audience at all times, and will give your voice a more personal touch.

*Pick a topic you’ve gone over before and give it some spin.

*Keep your business blogging simple
Try not to use to much widgets, plugins, add-ons, modifications, customizations, etc., as your readers really don’t care about that stuff. They came to read blog posts. The cleaner and more pure you can make your blog, the better. Also keeping blog simple will minimize page loading time.

*Use your professional voice
Think of your writing as an extension of your professional voice.Maintaining good grammar, spelling and fluid expression is a simple way to show potential clients you’re an intelligent and professional person. The more informal your writing looks the less professional you and your enterprise will appear. Avoid embarrassing slip-ups by re-reading and rigorously editing each post before you hit publish.

*Present information clearly and concisely
Make your posts scannable by including sub-headings, by making key words and phrases bold, and by using paragraph breaks frequently. This makes your writing look more professional and will enable busy clients to extract the essence of your posts even if they don’t have the time to read each word.

*Be objective with business blogging
Too many business blogs serve as extended advertisements for the company and little else. It is no wonder that these tend to be unsuccessful. A good strategy is to take a birds-eye view of the industry you’re in while frequently returning back to your own business.

*Treat readers as your potential clients
Respond to every comment and e-mail in a prompt and courteous manner. Answer every question to the best of your abilities. Enforce a strict comment policy to ensure your blog comments are a happy and productive place. Your readers are potential clients and will generate an impression of your customer service based on how you manage your blog community.

*Provide useful content
Rather than just “reblogging” links to other sites or blog posts with a quick little comment of your own, focus instead on being the site that other people are talking about. Post original thoughts, views, tips, etc., not just your rehashing of what other people have already done.

*Discuss about what someone else is talking about
If you want to have a popular blog, find other bloggers in similar areas, and talk about what they said in their posts. Friendly debate can often spark the soap-opera like drama that will have both your audiences visiting both blogs to see what “the other” have to say.

As an added bonus, if both of you are using Trackback in your blogs, you’ve got yourself a mini-link party that other people who are speaking on similar topics will want to join..

*Let someone else talk for a change
Invite a guest blogger, or post an article that offers free reprint rights, the same way you would in a newsletter. Of course you want to leave the resource box intact, or let the guest promote their site, which brings me to the most common complaint about this tactic.

*Answer the questions put by visitors

*Don’t disable discussion
Enable comments on your business blogging, and don’t go around deleting everything that’s unflattering. The only things that should really be moderated is spam messages.

Publish your blog content to social book marking sites and twitter. Also send blog ping* when content is updated through sites like:
pingoat.com

*What is blog Ping:
A notification to a Web site that a blog has been created or updated. In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated

Hope this useful business blogging tips will be helful in generating the result you are expecting.

Happy Business Bloggings!!

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With Inputs from Rakesh, content contributor for this blog.

8 comments:

  1. Saravan8/14/2009

    For business blog
    You NEED to be consistent in your efforts while using blog for business.
    Through blog educate the consumer. And try to research the competition this will help your business blog.

    Good post. Thanks for the useful information.

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  2. Gabriel8/19/2009

    Plus....
    A Business Blog need to ensure that companies’ image does not suffer due to the topics and language used on its corporate blog.
    A personal blog does not really have any boundaries and the blogger can choose to publish whatever he likes (or dislikes). However, in case of Business or corporate blogs, the content published has to be moderated and well thought out before it appears in the public domain.

    Thanks for the impressive post on Business Blogging tips.

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  3. Impressive Tips on Business blogging...
    I think Business blog should not Sell on Every Post....
    This is a bad strategy, because most people see blogs as a place to consume useful and/or entertaining info. They don’t mind hearing about your products once in a while but they’re turned off with product pitches on every post.

    Thanks for informative content.

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  4. Dominic11/25/2009

    With Business Blogging we can:

    -Expert Perception- Blogs add to the perception that the writer or publisher of the blog is an expert thereby increasing your company's credibility and brand in the blogosphere

    -Effective Communication- Blogs provide a medium for companies to receive customer feedback. Major corporations spend millions of dollars on focus groups and research to help determine potential consumer responeses.The comments section on a blog is free of charge. You can use client feedback to improve your company, your products and your service.

    -Internal Company Improvements-Internal production and communication. Blogs can act as a private forum for employees to express opinions, give feedback and share ideas, leading to a more positive working environment.


    Thanks for your Useful Business Blogging Tips, it is really helpful.

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  5. Mikayla1/09/2010

    Business blogging is important to interact with customers and also in providing updated information about business, seeking feedback.

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  6. Writer Vineeta7/01/2011

    Good information and tips on business blogging.

    For business blog to be successful online, one need to post quality content, must have good blog design, interact with visitors...

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  7. Awesome!! Thanks for sharing … Few Powerful Business Blogging Tips. I have just bookmarked it and I will always keep returning back to your website.

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  8. Again, I think it's a very important factor that quality content is posted on a regular basis. Google (and other search engines) give kudos to blogs that regularly post new content. Thanks for an interesting read.

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