Comments on: Web 2.0 Blogging for Business

By: Oscar Del Santo

Oscar Del Santo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:07:38 +0000

This is a truly great post full of useful and relevant information.

Small businesses everywhere take heed!!!

By: Mike Clough

Mike Clough — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:36:08 +0000

Blogs educate and through links drive people to your website to shop. Whether or not they take further action depends on how compelling your copy and pricing is.

Twitter is more of headlines and a link (it is limited to 140 characters) to peak someone’s interest to click the link. What happens after that depends on what they find when they get to the link destination.

By: cerbatano

cerbatano — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:26:08 +0000

Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive hardware sales?

By: Mike Clough

Mike Clough — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:30:30 +0000

Barbara, the information for which you are asking is in high demand at this time. That is why I am blogging about it. Due to this demand, chances are that there are seminars on this topic being held in your local community. I am sure there are also some online seminars or webinars that you can attend. You can search the web for that. I am unaware of one that I can endorse. Not everyone is as much of an expert as they may think. That is why my blog series on this is a consensus of the opinions of many experts.

I noticed that you also joined The Blog Zone LinkedIn group (http://bit.ly/1d19H). I would recommend you ask the question there as well and I suspect you will receive many great ideas.

Thank you for your comment/question!

By: barbara graff

barbara graff — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:20:00 +0000

I am a PR and business development professional and need to add social marketing capabilities to the menu of services I offer. However, I’m a tech-not and need some very basic info such as terminology and basic steps to follow to set up my blog, how to create a viral strategy and develop community for my clients. Is there a course of seminar where I can learn this?

By: stephenakirk

stephenakirk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:34:47 +0000

A really useful series of articles – thanks.

As someone fairly new to blogging, I’m particularly interested to learn about “real world” examples of the benefits of blogging; especially in a B2B services environment. Hopefully you will cover this in a future article?

By: Steven Schlagel

Steven Schlagel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:52:06 +0000

I agree with Val and have also written about why blogging is important and definitely using WordPress though I have seen people develop a community in Blogger or Typepad and then convert to WP later once they were established.

I recently converted to WP Thesis which I like very much for its ease of use.

By: Mike Clough

Mike Clough — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:59:25 +0000

Thank you Val. And I enjoyed your article enough that I posted it in The Blog Zone (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2045776) so blogging members can read. Again, thanks!

By: Val Nelson

Val Nelson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:02 +0000

That’s a great synopsis for folks! Thanks for taking the time. I will link to it from my web marketing blog later.

People often underestimate the power of blogging so I recently wrote up a list of reasons:
16 Practical Reasons Why I Blog:
http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/16-practical-reasons-why-i-blog/

Thanks.