Effective Blogging eBook – Best of Lessons from Corporate Life Series 2009

The Best of 2009 in the Series Lessons from Corporate Life is now available to all our readers as an ebook. This collection of articles span topics such as branding, marketing, thought leadership, innovative thinking that can be used very effectively by individual bloggers & affiliate marketers who make money online.

This ebook is free for redistribution. If you are running your own website or blogs & would want to offer this ebook to your readers, you are free to do so. You must however keep the credits & the content intact. The copyright will belong to Pro Media Blog.

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Lessons from the Corporate Life – What This Weak Economy Taught Us About Employers & Jobs

This article is part of my Lessons from the Corporate Life Series.

This economy had taught all the full time employees a big lesson! And something that new bloggers could think more about. More importantly, for those of you who are still waiting to start your blogging & grow it like your business, here is your chance to start now!

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Lessons from the Corporate Life – 10 Really Dumb Sales Strategies That You Should Not Make

This article is part of my Lessons from the Corporate Life Series.

In this I am going to talk about the really dumb strategies that companies have tested without success. While some large companies have enough money to overcome their failures, you are smart enough not to make them!

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Lessons from the Corporate Life – Affiliate Marketing Tips on Call to Action

In my corporate existence I have seen so many salesman fail because they do not know how to call for action. Or they do it at the wrong time. Or they make it too complex. Whatever the cause be, they fail to close a deal.

For online affiliate marketers not having to see the prospective customer is challenge enough. Having a poor call to action would be the end!

So what is the best & the simplest call to action for online affiliate marketers?

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Lessons from the Corporate Life – 10 Time Management Tips for Part Time Bloggers

This is a very relevant topic for all the part time bloggers. Since most of my readers are either new to blogging (or new to making money from blogging) or are blogging part time, I think this article will help them manage time more efficiently.

The effect of not being able to manage your blogging time would result in low earnings from your blogs. This is a vicious cycle eventually leading to people completely giving up on their business dreams.

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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.

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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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Lessons from the Corporate Life – 10 Tips on How to Build Relations for Successful Small Business

I have been a practitioner of information technology implementations with some of the best that the Fortune 100 companies. And many of what is contained in this blog about making money on the internet as well as other publications like the ProdigitalTips – about Software for Personal & Business use, comes from my long experience in implementing business processes & systems in some of these large multi-billion dollar corporations.

What works for such large corporations may not work for the small business or for the one man entreprenuer. However, the basic facts & the tricks to a successful business remain the same. Read more

Innovative Uses of Twitter for Business – FirstGroup International Transportation Services

More & more businesses, big & small, are using Twitter to reach out to customers & increase their sales. Twitter is turning out to be a good platform to ‘listen’ to customers, ‘promote’ new products as well as bring in new ’sales’ on deals.

FirstGroup, the UK based international transportation services company is using Twitter to keep their commuters posted on train schedules & deals.

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CEOs & Leaders speak on Blogging – Relationship Building with Blogs

More & more CEOs are now taking up blogging as a preferred means to reaching out & developing a personal relationship with their business associates, customers & employees. CEO could also provide insights into their organizations functioning & at the same time, open up to ideas from around the world to pour in – they might well be thinking of getting rid of the costly & less than effective “surveys” some day!

Having to won a blog is not simple either. Especially when it runs in the name of the CEO. The expectations are quite high & hence CEOs delegating the messaging part down the hierarchy to a group of public relations officers could spoil the game. While some CEO Blogging experts tend to believe that CEOs should focus on the important business of running the business, a badly written post, poorly organized content & failure to post frequently could ruin the image of the organization & definitely harms the CEO’s image.

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