How To Setup a Blog For Your Business to Flourish

Ok…My friends I know someone of you already have this done.

However, lately I have been getting a lot of emails through Facebook from business owners asking what is the best way to promote a product or service using a blog or website.

Allow me to take at least 30 seconds to explain the difference between a blog and a website. This is something that you must know!

Hopefully, when I’m done you’ll be able to distinguish the difference between both and be able to make a decision which one fits your business needs.

What’s a blog?

A blog is a form of a website. A lot of individuals are using blogs to sell products and services. The beauty of a blog it allows the business owner to make a post and connect with their customers by building a readership.

By you being able to write a post about services or events that interest your visitors. The visitors will have the ability to say what they like or don’t like by leaving a comment.

This is powerful because now you are interacting with your visitors.

What is a website?

I will keep this one very short…a site is different because it is static. You can’t have the same interaction with your visitors like a blog.

With a site you are able to describe your products or services but you won’t be able to updated it as easy as a blog. Yes, you can update a site but it is not as easy as updating a blog.

With a blog you can literally update it in 5-15 minutes and displaying for your customers…It’s too easy!

Let’s go and dive into it…

5 reasons why your business should have a blog and not a site:

1. Able to post within minutes – This is probably the biggest reason to have a blog for your business instead of a site. You are able to post articles, videos, and audio literally within 5 minutes.

If you want to do the same with a static site it will take at least 1-3 hours to accomplish the same task. Plus if you are not familiar with website editing that means you are paying someone for it.

So business owners – Time is money! You want your information out to your customers ASAP.

2. Quick to setup - I love this one! You are able to set up your blog in 30 minutes, write or post a video about your business, and hit the cool ‘publish’ button and now your business is online.

3. SEO optimizing is much easier – With a blog it is a lot easier to setup SEO optimizing for the search engines. With a website it takes time for the search engines to index the page.

As soon as you have a post on your blog. You can ‘ping’ the search engines. Basically what you are doing is notifying the search engines that you publish something new and come by to give it a visit so it can index it.

Blogs have the tendency of showing up faster in organic searches.

4. Allows you to build credibility faster - The main reason it allows you to build credibility much faster…the interaction you have. With a static site you have no interaction.

With a blog you can post as often you like and build a relationship with your readers.

5. Again, easy to publish content – This is worth saying it again! With a static site if you want to add something. You have to open up your editor, write a post, update the page before uploading it via FTP, and wait for the search engines to index it.

This is way too slow for an entrepreneur. How about this: Go to the back office of your blog, write a post, and hit publish…Done!

Now you know!

I really hope I was able to answer the questions that I have been getting via email on Facebook. Now, there are many other reasons that I can come up with as to why use a blog vs. static site.

There is a reason why so many major corporations and newspaper companies are going this route. Why not you, who owns a business. Take advantage of it.

If you already own a website then put a link from the site to your new blog. This way you don’t have to kill your website. Just let people know that you have a blog with juicy content or videos.

To Your Success,

Josh Garcia

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