Hello and welcome to Rim Digest, the ezine for
"Responsible Internet Marketers".
Striving to be the BEST resource for Small Biz Owners...
January 22, 2009 volume 9-issue 4
Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net
Rim Digest ezine: http://www.rimdigest.com/
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Today's Issue Contains:
Publisher's Spot
Featured Article: 5 Reasons Why You Should be Blogging
Positive Quotes
Freebie for my subs
Chuckle Break
Feedback
Recommended eZines
Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff
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Today is my son, Justin's, 21st. birthday.
He is also the Daddy of my grand son, Brayden.
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if you are interested in one or more of these
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Featured Article
5 Reasons Why You Should be Blogging
Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s.
It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage,
an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or
voice out one’s opinion on the said page. What started
as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages
of personal take on just about anything and everything
under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online
advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential.
Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging
as an Internet marketing tool.
1.Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece
of the net pie is through blogging. No skills are necessary;
an average adult can read and type, or at least click a
mouse.
It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write
your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the
truth
behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to
also
try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet
connection
(who doesn’t?) you can blog and advertise.
2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where
advertising
saturate our lives, we question the credibility of
promoters’
claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life
experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs
about first-hand product use is like talking to people
about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to
buy
a tried and tested product.
3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven
as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see
it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus
offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is
definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are
starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate
more income for your seriously growing business.
4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more
into writing your experiences on a particular product or
industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend
on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you
become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit
your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies
and professional organizations notice the growth of your
readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for
advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate,
which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.
5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood
star,
chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot
of
friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your
blog site is. But
you need not depend on Mom to increase
your readership base.
Look into the following ways to build
your market through blogging:
-By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming
the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively
reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed
and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail
is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site.
Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message
as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an
entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature
to give a link to the site.
-By using a subscription. An easy way to get your readers'
e-mail addresses is to give them an opportunity to subscribe
to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your
subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their
e-mail addresses. Just be responsible in using their e-mail
addresses, as the last thing you want is a comment on your
blog that you are a spammer.
-By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey
for your readers to understand their profile and advertising
preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post,
an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is
like interviewing your readers without the commitment and
intrusion of a face-to-face interview.
-By joining a blog network – A network of blogs may be
a collection of blog sites that share the same industry,
interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers
find credibility and convenience in clicking one link
to several real bloggers about a single subject.
Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.
-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology
on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to
your blog is definitely another means of generating
awareness for your readership base. Having a variety
of feeds can add interest to your blog site.
Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging
as an Internet marketing tool.
Jan Tallent is the editor of Rim Digest eZine at
http://www.rimdigest.com/
and also known as the
Marketing Warrioress at http://marketingwarrioress.com/
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Positive Quotes
Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never
be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with
the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is
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-- Edward R. Lyman
and
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Chuckle Break
Ole and Sven had really 'packed on the pounds' by overeating
during Christmas and the New Year's Holidays, so their
doctor
put them on the same diet.
'I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day,
and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see
you,
you should have lost at least 5 pounds.'
When the Norwegians returned, they shocked their doctor
by having lost nearly 25 POUNDS each.
'Why, that's positively amazing!' the doctor said.
'Did you follow my instructions?'
Then Ole and Sven nodded and said. . . .
'We vant to tell you though, we taut we was gonna
drop dead dat 3rd day.'
'From hunger, you mean?'
'No, yust from all dat skippin'!
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Feedback
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