Sunday, November 25, 2012

Getting the Most out of Blogging for Marketing Your Business

Blogging for marketing your offers in the online marketplace is one of the most popular ways marketers are using these days. This is somewhat different from that of other ways like social media marketing, article marketing, email marketing, referral marketing, and affiliate marketing. You have a full-fledged control over your business blog. You can share everything there including texts, videos and images. Those contents can be of your personal or business related. Blogging is totally free. There are a number of free blogging platforms including Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous Space, Blogetery, LiveJournal, and many more. Just select one and start blogging for marketing your goods or services.

Well, how can you get most out of blogging? Here are the pointers: 

Informative as well as Interesting Content:
You know a blog is the shortened term of Weblog where you can instantly publish your content about your offers. This is the key pointer while blogging for promoting the business offers. Always publish interesting and informative content, which your target audiences search for. You can post daily, weekly, or monthly. Try to maintain regularity. 

Quality-Price Dilemma:
Quality-price dilemma is the most important pointer in blogging for marketing your offers. Compare your offers with that of your competitors. Don’t devalue your competitors’ offers. Technically show your audiences why your offer is more suitable to them. If your offers are high-priced compared to that of competitors, emphasize the quality of your products or services. If they are of low-priced, let your audiences know that you are offering comparatively good products or services at a reasonable price. In a word, identify your strengths and give emphasis to them while publishing anything in your blog. Figure out the core benefit of your offer and highlight it. 

Product or Service Features:
Your potential customers are eager to know the features of your offers. When they see that those features match with their expectation, they may take the buying decision. So always provide them with the right information. Try to highlight the areas including how your offers can meet their needs, the user manual, durability, installation service, post purchase service, warranty, guarantee, price, credit terms where applicable, and buy back policy. When you can do those activities successfully, your effort in blogging for marketing your products or services will succeed for sure. 

Introduction of New Offer:
When you develop a new offer, inform your target audiences before launching it in the market. If you do that, your audiences will feel honored. Your blog is the best platform to that. Just publish a small post with the image of the new offer. If possible, visualize it. A video clip of two or three minutes is enough to do that. 

Keep Dialoging with the Audiences:
When your audiences visit your business blog, they might have a query about a product or service. Try to respond their queries as early as possible. If you neglect them, they will do the same. Ultimately you will not achieve your goal. Don’t stop dialoging by yourself. By that way, you can build rapport with the potential customers which will help you in blogging for marketing your business offers.

Always analyze your competitors’ blogs. Try to find out their strategies, strengths, and weaknesses. Give emphasis to the opportunity prevailing in the market; overcome the threats your offers are facing. By that way, you will establish a successful blog, which will direct you in blogging for marketing your products or services in the online marketplace.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Merla Concha,

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