01.17.08
Five Ways to Build Your Market Through Blogging
Table of contents for Blogging Basics
- Basic Blogging Series
- Blog: What is the 2008 definition?
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 1
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 2
- A Great Idea for a Blog is Not Enough
- Learn How to Make Money Blogging
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool
- Five Ways to Build Your Market Through Blogging
- Blogging For Business Owners
- Succeed at Blogging as an Internet marketing tool
- Writing Your Blog: Six Tips on Writing for your blog
- Five Ways to Keep Your Visitors Reading More and Longer
- Blogging Basics Series Wrap Up
Yesterday I talked about how blogging can benefit you when used as an internet-marketing tool. Today, as promised, I will discuss Five ways to build your market through blogging.
Use your e-mail -Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly, 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.
Use subscriptions -An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blog site. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.
Understand 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.
Join a blog network –A network of blogs maybe 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.
Use 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.
