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Blogs
are typically updated daily using software that allows
people with little or no technical background to update
and maintain the blog.
The
popularity of blog is gaining momentum globally with
each passing month. A recent survey conducted by
Comscore.com shows the following findings:
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50
million of the population in the USA visited blog
sites in the first quarter of 2005
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This
indicates an increase of about 45% compared to First
Quarter of 2004.
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An
average blog visitor spends 23 hours per week online
while an average Internet user spends only 13 hours
online.
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Blog
visitors are 11% more likely than the average
Internet users to have incomes of $75,000 or more.
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Blog
visitors are 30% more likely to buy products or
services online.
Anybody
thinking of starting an online venture, would be silly
not to recognise the importance of blogging being one of
the best tools of Internet marketing.
Blogging is a perfect way for the average person to make
money online without going through all the troubles and
frustration of learning how to set up a website and be
an efficient internet marketer.
Let's now talk about nich products. Why do you need a
nich product? And what has this to do with “blogging”?
You may ask. It is because your online business has
little hope of succeeding if you're going head to head
with the big boys. As a small Internet entrepreneur, you
can never hope to compete with the big boys in terms of
the power of pricing strategy and advertising. But you
can be successful by finding niche markets or niche
products that you seldom find at your local mall in oder
to stay away from the empowering presence of the big
guys.
Niche market basically is a market with a significant
amount of interest online that does not encounter the
same competition as in other regular products. You can
easily create a niche market based on any topics
including even your own hobbies, e.g. gardening, guitar,
tropical fish, D.I.Y etc. As long as the topic is being
searched for online, you would have a great opportunity
of making some profit through adding ads to your blog
and making some effort in promoting your targeted
affiliate programs and products.
Many internet marketing newbies opt for blogs to set up
their niche markets because as beginners, they can very
easily add pages, images, banners, downloads, ebooks etc
to their blogs. Unlike the regular websites, they do not
need to worry about having to understand HTML (the
website design language)!
Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of
the best Internet marketing methods that is free because
you could create your blog almost immediately at no cost
compared to the setting up of a conventional website.
Putting information in your blog to help establishing
your presence in the Web is now a growing phenomenon.
Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way
to enhance the visibility of your products and services.
With the continuing improvement in software technology,
publishing, introducing plug-ins, banners, pictures etc
to create a fun and interesting “website” has become
a breeze even to those retirees with old and rusty
brains.
The more content you add to your blog, the more traffic
you get. And you can add these materials almost on a
daily basis.
You could get high ranking search engine placement for
many internet marketing terms just by designing your
posts around certain targeted keywords. This phenomenon
is more prominent when handling niche markets due to the
lack of competition. Free articles could be easily
obtained from many article directories in the web and
posted to your blogs for the benefits of your visitors.
There’s almost no limit to what you could and want to
do with your blog. You can include your ideas, opinions,
expertise in your field of work, resumes, home recipes,
pictures, audio or video clips, e-books, poetry,
products, services, consultations etc., etc.
What are the main differences between a blog and a
website then? You may ask.
Most websites are relatively permanent with only
occasional updating. With blogs, you could post any new
content almost on daily basis. Also, websites are
usually less personal as far as their relationship with
the visitors is concerned.
How do you start your first step to set up a blog? There
are many host services providers you could join. Among
the most popular are Blogger.com and LiveJournal.com.
You could start with Blogger.com which many newbies find
serving their needs just perfectly.
With Blogger.com, posting your web content is like a
breezy walk in the park. Photographs of your produces
etc, along with any text, could be uploaded to your blog
right away with just a few clicks of your mouse.
Another facility you could use is Audioblogger that
enables audio posting to your current blog site with any
phone at any time from any place. It is not only
effective but also easy and fun. You call a given
number, record a post, then your blog is updated with an
audioblogger icon and a link to your recorded audio.
Your message in your own voice is instantly posted! The
beautiful part of it all is the fact that this is
totally free of charge!
Blogging has been used for some years as a platform for
individuals to record chronological publication of
comments and thoughts on the web. Now we know how one
could go beyond this to capitalise the strength of
blogging to enhance one’s Internet business.
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Source: http://articlewell.com
Sung-Liang
Woon (John Woon) is a Rubber and Latex Consultant with
about 30 years of experience. He enjoys writing,
lecturing, travelling, taichi, playing flamenco guitar
and singing. Check this fantastic website to find out
how he has ventured into Internet business: www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-9747
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