Lessons from the Corporate Life – 10 Tips for Marketing for Small Business
This is part of the Lessons from the Corporate Life series where we share ideas & opinions that could benefit online business owners & small business owners.
Our earlier popular articles from this series had been:
This article is on some of the facts, ideas & tips on marketing your small business. Bloggers & online business owners will find this useful to build your brand, create a buzz & increase sales.
Email Marketing Trends – Right Email Marketing for Blogging Business
Email are now synonymous to personal IDs. Email marketing has been a very strong marketing tool for years. However, with the tighter (and often confusing) control of spam & junk emails, email marketing is facing a challenge.
Reference:
1. Study: Deliverability Could be Better on MediaPost
2. E-mail’s Killer ROI Less Lethal by the Year: DMA on DirectMag
How is this affecting bloggers, especially who have been trying to build their email subscription list in order to sell & market more.
How Much Are You Reading – Educate Yourself & Teach Others
The internet has grown too big too quickly & it seriously lacks good teachers. There are zillions of websites & blogs, but there is a definite shortage of quality bloggers.
Most of us tend to give up on reading news, books & articles. In the rush to make money, many of us compromise on the most important – educating ourselves. And at times, I am guilty of it too.
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Creating Unique Design for Your Business Blog – Design Pro Themes in Minutes
After my last post on a unique design for your business blog (Choosing the Right Wordpress Theme for your Blog), the most common question I have been asked in “Where do I get to create my own unique Wordpress blog design?”
The easy answer is Business CMS Themes, a collection of Wordpress themes that we have created for small business & for those professionals who run business blogs for selling & marketing!
Market News – Online Ad Prices Going Up in 2009
Bloggers & webmasters have been feeling the pinch of very low click costs. I have reported that earlier for poor earnings from Google Adsense. You can read about them here:
- Ineffective Google Ads Leads to Low Clicks Low Earnings – Google Adsense Alternatives
- Major Problems with Google Adsense – Drastic Drop in Adsense Clicks & Earnings
- Google Adsense Problems – Google Adsense Alternatives for Blogs
Although Google continues to give very poor Adsense earnings, I have balanced it well with numerous other Google Adsense Alternatives to boost my online income.
Writing Paid Blog Posts & Getting Paid for Blog Reviews – 6 Top Sponsored Posts Agencies
Writing paid posts have been a good way to earn some money from blogs. However, it has been a log standing debate as to what extent it should be done. It is against Google’s policy to sell links & posts on blogs, especially because they tend to skew the page ranking & the importance of that page on Google’s search engine.
But marketing companies have paid bloggers for sponsored reviews to write about their products & services & publish certain keyword links that they promote. Although we do not encourage using this method to make money from blogs many bloggers have used disclaimers on such posts to keep Google informed that the post is a paid review.
E-Commerce Strategies for Business Blogs – Planning & Setting Up Shopping Blogs
More and more bloggers are moving towards a more e-commerce centric website or a blog. If you are custom designing your blog you can have built in e-commerce features. If you are creating your own theme or customizing a free theme, it would require some work to set them up for e-commerce.
Whether your blogs & sites are capable of handling commercial transactions is the question that will come later. The first question is, do you have a good enough ecommerce strategy that will help your blogging business grow?
The Top Affiliate Programs for Bloggers – Choosing the Right Affiliate Marketing Offers
New bloggers face the dilemma of choosing the right affiliate marketing programs & the right affiliate offers. There are too many of them & they all seem equally exciting. But only a few works out well in the long run.
I have been asked these 2 questions very frequently:
1. What are the Right Affiliate Programs for Bloggers? and What are the best Affiliate Programs that I would recommend?
2. How do you choose the Right Affiliate Marketing offers? What are the key features of a good affiliate program?
Other references on here that you may find useful are:
- To find out about all the ways in which you can make money bloggin, read my recommendations on 15 Ways to Make Money from Blogs.
- All the various advertisers that could help you make money from blog advertisements, read my recommendations on Best AdSense Alternatives to Make Money from Blog Ads
