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Blogging to Promote Your Business Online

by Admin

Blogging to Promote Your Business Online

Recently I wrote about the top ten ways to promote your online business. The top ten online marketing methods include social media, video, blogging, guest blogging, content marketing, public speaking, SEO, PPC, social advertising, and email marketing. Blogging to promote your business on your own website is one of the fastest and easiest things you can do. When done well blogging gives readers interesting and useful content. With careful research and planning, it can help your search engine optimization campaigns, and it helps to establish you as an expert in your field.

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I am assuming you already have a website setup. If you do not I recommended a low cost web hosting plan which will run you about $5 per month. For easy maintenance, use a prewritten content management system. I use WordPress for all of my blogs.

To begin blogging identify a topic you understand well, break it down into bits and begin writing as if you are teaching a class or talking to a friend. For example, a good friend of mine is a very skilled recreational photographer, so he writes about it, but breaks it down into sections like camera lenses, lighting, backgrounds, etc… I return to his website for tips on what lenses to buy or tips on lighting design.

Blogging makes your business or ecommerce website a resource rather than just a store. Your blog become a source of information. It is okay to link to products for sale, as long as it is not the focus of the blog post. My friend the photographer has tons of great photography and video tips, but he also sells some online courses too!

Blog as often as you can. The more you can write, the faster your website will be built out. If you are writing for SEO efforts, then try to add at least two blog posts a week. After writing a blog post, do not assume readers will just flock to your website to read it. Be sure to promote your new blog post on social media, in an email blast, or with a press release.

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Filed Under: Blog, business Tagged With: blogging, business, ecommerce, marketing

Pinterest for Business Webinar

by Admin

I’m pleased to announce my “How to Use Pinterest Pintalk for Business” webinar! The webinar, Pinterest for Business: Everything You Need to Know, takes place on Tuesday November 24, 2015

For MORE about Pinterest and how to use it for your business, visit my blog Pintalk.net

How to use Pinterest for business webinar

You’ll get a FREE business checklist! I will cover Pinterest topics for business users, such as:

  • Top Pinterest topics
  • How to maximize sharing
  • Optimizing Images
  • Pinterest Analytics
  • The best times to pin
  • Group boards
  • Specialized pins for businesses (Map pins, Rich Pins)
  • Promoted Pins (paid pins)
  • NEW! Buyable Pins
  • Tips for local Pinterest optimization
  • Analytics

You’ll get a Pinterest for Business Checklist and lots of helpful tips! There will be special offers from our sponsor, SEMRush, MetroNY and Pintalk.net. The webinar is free and registration is required. Click here to sign up today!

Thanks to my sponsor, SEMRush!
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Filed Under: Blog, social media, speaking Tagged With: Pinterest, webinar

The Top 10 Ways to Promote a Business Online

by Admin

Looking to promote an online business, or to give a brick-and-mortar store a digital advertising boost? Below are ten effective and proven methods to bring more traffic to your website or drive foot traffic to your physical store. Email campaigns, social campaigns and content marketing are all effective ways to advertise online. Pick one and master it, or better yet, choose a few that work well together. Understand how to optimize each technique or hire an expert to help you.

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Ten effective and proven digital advertising techniques

  1. Social media: Social media is used to connect with potential customers, vendors, investors, or other stakeholders. Social media is free in the sense that it only costs your time, but a serious social media strategy will require time, creative graphics, a writer, and possibly a dedicated manager to be effective.
  2. Video: Video is my new favorite for promoting businesses, products and brands. Video does not have to be commercial quality to be effective. Audiences are receptive to homemade do-it-yourself videos, shot from a webcam or smartphone as long as the video provides value or entertains.
  3. Blogging: Blogging is a cheap and easy way to promote yourself, products, story, or brand. For under $30 you can get a website setup and begin writing. Everyone has a story to tell, or is an expert in something. This is a way to get started today! Blogs can be added to existing ecommerce websites to add value and give customers information, tips and tutorials. Blogs turn an ecommerce into a resource.
  4. Guest blogging: Guest bloggers write content for someone else’s website. The advantage is that writers potentially get more readers than they would on their own, as long as they can secure a spot on a better known blog. The only downside to guest blogging is that the content does not live on the writer’s website, but the increase in credibility from a carefully chosen website is worth it.
  5. Content marketing: Content marketing is creating and distributing informative and valuable content in the form of whitepapers, studies, videos, and other downloads in order to attract a targeted audience. It encompasses many of the ideas mentioned above, but the content is written to share knowledge, not as an advertisement. Readers usually give their contact information to get the content.
  6. Public speaking: Public speaking is a great way to establish yourself as an expert in your field, to network, and to subtly advertise. Public speaking does take time and practice. You will have to speak for free for a time unless you are amazingly famous. If you can keep your travel expenses down, this is a great way to promote yourself.
  7. SEO: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of adjusting a website’s content and programming to fine tune it so it is favored by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. SEO is a skill that has a big learning curve and many businesses outsource this to an agency.
  8. PPC: Pay-per-click (PPC) or paid online advertising can bring new viewers to a website. When done well, PPC is cost effective, but it takes skill, understanding, and monitoring to fine tune a campaign.
  9. Social advertising: Social advertising is paying for promoted spots on popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. These ads have different names and a few platforms offer more than one option. For example, on Facebook, users can “boost a post” or pay for a targeted ad in the news feed or right-hand sidebar. Pinterest has two options as well. Social advertising is also useful when you don’t have a lot of followers.
  10. Email marketing: email marketing remains one the most effective forms of online advertising. A legitimate list, cultivated from actual customers and leads, yields the best results. As the list is used, additional information is recorded, like purchase history, preferences, and spending habits.

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Filed Under: Blog, SEO, social media, video Tagged With: blogging, business, content marketing, ecommerce

Speaking to entrepreneurs about branding

by Admin

Last weekend I spoke about branding to a group of entrepreneurs at Manhattan’s largest trade show, NY NOW Speaker. I was fortunate to have a sold out audience that had lots of questions during and at the end of the one hour talk. I made good contacts and connections. The question and answers after the one hour talk lasted 45 minutes, which is great! The questions turned into my dream talk – I got to speak about female entrepreneurship, finding mentors, and how changing the people you associate with can change your life and the way you do business. A friend recently taught me a saying his parents used to say:

“Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are”

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I always wondered if you should judge a person by their friends. I am finding that this is true although I don’t want it to be. My world changed when a friend of mine asked a friend of his bring me to a networking group. I never did any business out of that group, but I learned a lot from the high-end corporate accountants and attorneys there. They are brilliant, resourceful, and connected. Who you associate with can change your world.

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Filed Under: Blog, speaking Tagged With: branding, mentorship, speaking

Branding Essential Tips

by Admin

Branding for Beginners form the NY NOW Craft Power Hour – August 15th

Hi! I am glad you are interested in downloading this presentation and excited to get started branding your business, idea, or personal presence! There are notes attached to each slide on the Power Point presentation. To view the notes, click on “view” then select “note page.” (This depends on what version of power point you have. Send me an email and we can chat!

To download the file, click on the graphic below. To save the file as a pdf to your computer, click here Branding for Beginners NY NOW

~Michelle

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: branding

Trade show edification

by Admin

I used to dread going to trade shows. I viewed it as long days on my feet weaving through a crowded trade show floor. Sometimes I’d have to drag the added weight of a jacket with me to temper the cold meeting rooms. Then there was the hoarding. I picked up every cute piece of swag to take home to the kids so I could share my day with them. Our dog chewed up many branded squishy balls.

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Now as a regular speaker at trade shows, I actually enjoy going. I’m on a NJ Transit train writing this as it burrow under the Hudson into NY Penn station. I’m headed to a cocktail hour at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. In two days, I’m giving a talk on calculating the return on investment of social media marketing. The day after that, I’m giving a workshop for a few hours.

I enjoy meeting people and I always have. Public speaking gives me the opportunity to meet people, travel, and learn! Yes, I learn by teaching. I’ve found that the extra research and reading I do to give a well thought out presentation is a great way to expand my viewpoint. Sometimes that requires me to get updated statistics, alternative sources or research the opposite viewpoint. When I work on either shortening or lengthening a speech to fit a conference time slot, I have to work hard to make my point and economize my words.

This week I’m talking about a Harvard business review article I read and why I disagree with its sentiment. Reading that post and the surveys it cites helped me understand my clients and how lost they felt about their investment in social media marketing.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: business, trade show

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