I WANT A BLOG - BUT I AM NOT A WRITER
Someone called me today and said, "I think I really need a blog for my business, but I can't write!"
#1 - yes - YOU NEED A BLOG. It is the best way, right now, to increase your business.
#2 - no - you don't have to be a writer! That's the beauty of blogging. It's like talking really. You have to be you! The people are going to like you! And if you can do research using Google or any other other search engine, you're a writer!
You want to find interesting content. A lot of bloggers seem to specialize in finding interesting content and providing a link and maybe a few words to recommend to their readers that they check out the original content on someone else's blog or site. While this isn't so much about finding original content for your blog, it is about finding information and resources that is helpful and useful to your readers. Your readers will start to turn to you, as their source of information. And guess what? If they weren't a customer, they will end up being a customer because they trust you. That's the beauty of blogging - it's a soft sell. Not a hard sell.
Other resources for finding good content -Top News Stories Industry News and Resources Tagging and Social Bookmarking Most Popular/Highest Traffic Top Search Results Research: Reading What Other People Wrote Facts, Figures and Statistics Search Engines, Search Blogs, and Search Resources
This article was partially based on http://lorelle.wordpress.com
So you see, you don't have to be a writer to be a blogger!
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