The Time Investment
It’s true that creating a Business Blog takes time, and I’m not just referring to the time taken to write it. You then have to think about adding pictures, making sure it’s SEO’d properly, adding it to your website, sharing it on social media. All these things take time, time which many of us run very short of. So, then, why do so many people create regular blogs for their business?
The Benefits of a Business Blog
There are many reasons why people create a Business Blog, far too many to list here. Here are some of the main reasons why we at Data Bubble love to blog:
- To help our clients and contacts with useful tips and information
- To demonstrate our expertise in our field
- To engage with our clients and contacts
- To drive traffic to our website
- To help build our search engine ranking through SEO
- To create a knowledge bank, so people can read our old blogs and get information
- To help people that dare not ask what they think is a “daft question”, as they may find the answer within our business blog
- To build brand awareness
- To advertise our services
- To promote offers and events
How to Enhance your Business Blog
As I touched upon at the start of this business blog, it’s not only about the blog text. Sure, the words have to be entertaining, interesting, informative and captivating – let’s face it, the idea of a blog is, after all, for the benefits listed above – but if they don’t succeed in delivering those benefits, you’re only doing half the job, at best!
In order for your Business Blog to succeed in its aims, it must have other components. Those components help your blog get seen and include:
- Adding it to your website, ideally by creating a Business Blog page (Click to visit ours) – this improves your website’s search engine ranking
- Ensuring it contains Keywords that search engines can find
- Highlighting in bold, those points which are particularly important
- Including links to other websites
- Adding pictures and ensuring they contain Alt Tags
- Sharing it via social media
- Including additional material such as video
- Including links to other related blogs that you have written
- Inviting people to leave comments and feedback, or even subscribe to your blog
- A Call to Action (if appropriate)
The Business Blog – A Cost-Effective Marketing Tool
A Business Blog may take time, but it is a very cost-effective way of marketing your business in a myriad of ways. It creates free PR for your company, builds brand awareness, gives your business a personality, promotes your expertise and can often place you ahead of your competitors. Furthermore, it can be used to drive communication by inviting comments, thus creating engagement with your clients and prospects.
One thing’s for sure, we’re huge fans of blogs here at Data Bubble. Our Business Blog page (Click to visit) forms part of our overall marketing strategy and we’ll continue to create them as long as people like you continue to read them.
