My little corner

What is blogging? - Part 2

Is a blog good for my business?

If you want to develop a rapport with your customers, make regular postings about your business and gain interest from other media outlets or potential customers you would certainly benefit from starting a blog.

Because blogs by nature are considered a source of information rather than a commercial advertisement it makes perfect sense for a business to use blogs as a means of establishing a reputation in their market.

Posting information about their industry or field will create a sense of community involvement that potential customers will appreciate. Using links to your business page will create traffic from search engines and blog readers. You can even add a subscription form to your blog so that interested readers can immediately be emailed when you make a post.

How do I start a blog?

You can create a blog for free. (See the videos in a previous post) There are many free blog hosting sites you can locate by searching for ‘blog’ in the search engine. Blogger.com is a popular one.

Blogs are one of the simplest forms of creating an online presence. You do not need any experience in website design as most blog hosts will provide you with pre-made templates. They also provide easy to understand instructions for creating your posts along with options such as allowing comments from readers or uploading photos.

Whether you want to post your personal thoughts on a world crisis, share your poems with appreciative readers or start an online business, your blog could be set up and people could be hearing what you have to say - today.

If you have an idea of a blog, let me know and I will open up a blog for you on JMRPub.com where all you need to worry about is getting great content and no technical detail.

I am JMR from My Little conrner.

One Response to “What is blogging? - Part 2”

1. David Davis Says:
   June 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

   Hey JMR, that’s a realy nice gesture. Are you planning to include users or are you going to use subdomains? If the latter I would recommend charging a nominal fee for hosting…

   David

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