http://www.ceoblogwatch.com Blogging Tips for Business Leaders Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:04:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Brandon Cornett  "I want to start blogging but I'm not sure where to begin. What advice can you offer on how to start a blog?" This is a common question that people ask, and one that I receive about once a week via email. I think that most people have underlying ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/06/13/how-to-start-blogging-in-2-days-or-less/ This post is part of our blogging tips series for business bloggers. If you are a one-man or one-woman business, then the choice for blog writer is an easy one. You'll have to do it yourself (our outsource it to a blog writing service). In this case, you may ask yourself ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/06/13/choose-the-best-writer-for-your-company-blog/ This post is part of our blogging tips series for business bloggers. One of the great things about publishing a business blog is that you can have it up and running quickly. So there is a tendency to rush forward and start cranking out content. I know this from experience. Blogging ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/06/11/put-a-blog-plan-on-paper/ This post is part of our blogging tips series for business bloggers. Okay, first thing's first. Before you can get off and running with your business blog, you need to define your blogging purpose. In other words, you need to know the reason you are blogging in the first place ... ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/04/18/define-your-blogging-purpose/ This marks the start of a new series dedicated to business blogging. This new series will consist of 100 articles built around blogging tips for business owners (i.e. those people who use their blogs for marketing or business communications). If your blog is about kittens, then this article is not for ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/04/18/blogging-tips-galore-100-pages-worth/ by Brandon Cornett Here today, gone tomorrow. It seems that's the lifespan of many business blogs these days. The blog goes up, it fails to deliver the desired result, and the blog is abandoned. It's an endless cycle of waste. Wasted time, wasted energy and, in come cases, wasted money! In order to ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/03/16/top-3-reasons-business-blogs-fail/ There are many ways to increase traffic to a business blog (or an educational blog, or any other kind of blog for that matter). But in my opinion, the best way to increase blog traffic is simply by posting often with quality content. In fact, there are so many benefits of ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/03/16/tips-for-blog-traffic-how-to-increase-traffic-levels/ Through my highly advanced powers of mathematical computation, I've just realized that the online booklet, The Business Blogging Bible, is about 50% complete. Six of the twelve sections are done -- including the following topics: Planning your business blog Creating your business blog Design considerations Increasing usability Writing blog content Optimizing the blog for search engine visibility I've ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/01/09/business-blogging-bible/ Working at home has become one of the hottest topics online. There are hundreds of websites and forums created for people who want to work from home full time. The latest manifestation of this trend is the so-called "work at home blogs" and the bloggers who operate them. In truth, the ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2008/01/01/work-at-home-blogs-the-new-american-dream/ by Courtland Bovee Millions of blogs fight for readership online (over 75 million by some counts), with thousands more being created every day. Making yours stand above the rest may seem like a daunting task, but here are ten suggestions for making your blog posts stand out from the crowd. 1. Write ... http://www.ceoblogwatch.com/2007/12/06/write-a-great-blog-post/