Category Archives: Blogging

What’s in a headline?

Whether you are updating a business blog or sending out a press release, you probably have a sentence at the top of the page called a headline. You thought only newspapers had those I bet. Nah, just about any piece of writing that contains information has a headline. It’s the thing that calls out to potential readers…

Why you need a business blog

  Your website provides the world with all the necessary information about your business and your products. Yet everyone is telling you you need a business blog. You ask ‘Why?’ I say, because you need a ‘voice.’ Not necessarily you but your business and no one can get a sense of that voice by just…

Want to grow your traffic? Start touching people

Once upon a time, a long, long, time ago, I was a real estate agent. A pretty good one too. In fact, my husband and I worked as a team and we were named top sales agents for our office. Early on we had decided to enlist the help of a coach and that made…

Blogging can be the loneliest job in cyberspace

Image: dan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I was recently working on a blog I started for a client of mine. Since it’s new it has a small readership as of yet. And so logging in to the admin area and creating posts is kind of a lonely feeling. There is something cold and strange about it, and…

How to build an email list

What do you do when you have a terrific site and no traffic? How do you build up a following? Well you can blog all day, spilling valuable secrets but if you don’t have traffic then obviously no one is reading. And you are definitely not making money. To do that you need an email…