5 Reasons Why Blogging is a good Internet Marketing Tool

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by   Zara 36 years old Female
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Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

1. Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging. No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise.

2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.

3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.

4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.

5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is. But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:

-By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.

-By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.

-By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.

-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.

-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site. Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

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by Tamara Baranova, Power Networker on 19-Mar-09 11:02pm

1. Give to Get
The most effective way to attract clients is to share your expertise. Go to networking meetings and rather than asking people for business, see how you can give them something. For instance, ask for their email to send them a useful contact, a website you’ve seen, or a useful report you have written. This brings people into relationship with you, which opens the possibility of them doing business with you some time later.

2. Build an email database
Building a contact database could be the most useful thing you ever do for your business. When you take someone’s card, ask permission to put them on your list for tips by email on your topic of expertise. You can then send occasional messages sharing more of your expertise which keeps you in the front of their mind. If someone needs your services 6 months from now, the chance of someone remembering you is nearly zero unless you are reminding them about yourself. You can also send a message when you have a new offering you want to promote.

3. Develop your network
Network is your channel to market, your means of distribution, or intermediaries who can get you work. Start using other people’s clients. Use networking events to find someone who offers a complementary service to your niche market and ask to do something for them for free – write some tips for their email newsletter or speak in front of their audience at a workshop. Then give a plug for your own services at the end.

4. Nothing sells like passion
Do you really love what you’re doing? People can tell if not. If you’re ambivalent about the services or products you’ve chosen to promote, you won’t sell. Build your career around the things you enjoy and are naturally good at. Are you overloaded? If some part of you actually doesn’t want the work because you won’t enjoy it or won’t be able to cope with it, you won’t get the work. Make sure you’re looking after yourself as a business owner and free up time by delegating/outsourcing the work you don’t like, such as book-keeping or administration, to a Virtual Assistant (http://www.tjconsulting.co.uk/services.html).

5. Solve problems
Build a business that solves the problems that are at the top of your target clients’ list of concerns. This means that they will have a pressing need for your services. Convincing a client they should buy from you is enough of a challenge without having to convince them they need what you’re offering in the first place! If you don’t know what your clients’ problems are, ask. Then start all your pitches and marketing materials by naming the problem you solve.

6. Look for opportunities for free PR
Look out for opportunities to get interviewed by, or write for, newspapers. Seek out journalists at networking events. You’ll need an angle to make it interesting. How are you different? For newspapers and magazines, it helps to have a reason that your story is relevant at this point in time.

7. Change your negative beliefs about selling
Finally, if you have a pattern of not making the income you need, check whether you have some limiting beliefs about money. Who do you think of when you think of rich people? Is it someone you like and admire? If not, choose an icon of wealth you do respect. It’s difficult to become something you don’t like! Also, if you think selling is tacky, it’s time to get over it. If you do good work, then you are helping people by doing more of it. Don’t be afraid to sing your own praises.

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This blog is Denis McCarthy’s collection of ideas and opinions, resources and tools for successful international business online, or eBusiness.

Denis McCarthy is involved in network marketing, online affiliate sales, internet based educational, coaching and training, eMedia and ePublishing and keeps abreast of research and developments in these areas which he shares on his IBIZ website www.int-a1.com/ibiz and through this associated IBIZ Blog.

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Dubai welcomes Direct Selling

Dubai welcomes Direct Selling into its niche of diversity

The first Direct Selling Exhibition & Conference
ever to be held in the Middle East has chosen Dubai as its venue.

• United Arab Emirates: Sunday, March 02 – 2008 at 12:22

Professor Charles King.

Direct selling which involves over 60 million people around the world will be at the center of discussions during the direct selling conference and adjoining exhibition in May 2008.With part time work now becoming legal in Dubai, direct selling can give many people the opportunity to earn extra income, especially women and students.Direct Selling also known as Multi Level Marketing, is the sale of a consumer product or service, person-to-person, away from a fixed retail location, which has become a large part of the economy in many countries. In Japan, sales through direct selling reach $22.4bn annually, while the US holds the record with $30.47bn.’Direct Selling is a multi billion industry, which has not been exploited in this part of the world. Bearing in mind that 85% in the business are women, I think we will have considerable interest from women here’, comments Niousha Ehsan, Marketing Manager, Direct Selling Festival.Market leaders in Direct Selling like Forever Living Products, Avon, DXN, Tahitian Noni and Sisel International, in UAE are joining hands to support this movement. The exhibition helps the Direct Selling industry to prosper and accelerate the growth by increasing the stature and credibility of direct selling companies and associations here in the region.

The Direct Selling Educational Institute (DSEI) has been set up to ‘promote the industry, establish professionalism among direct sellers and create a regulatory framework for government approval,’ said Poorya Montaseri, the organization’s founding director.

During the conference industry experts such as Professor Charles King, Tim Sales, Dr. Ellie Drake and Benjamin Tan – Founding member of Direct Selling Association of Singapore will discuss opportunities and will provide sales, marketing & personal development trainings for interested entrepreneurs in the Middle East who want to join this growing industry.

Direct Selling Festival, scheduled to be held from 17th to 19th May 2008 in Dubai will unveil the infinite opportunities of this new world of Direct Selling and explore how the industry is going to change the lives of thousands in the coming years.

Direct Selling is gaining momentum throughout the region as a legitimate and profitable way of doing business and has already been successful in stabilizing the grass roots economies of many countries.

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1. Dubai welcomes Direct Selling into its niche of diversity
2. First Direct Selling Conference in Dubai
3. Dubai’s International Direct Selling Festival opens

» more Direct Selling Festival news

For more information on MLM opportunities in Dubai and other Middle East countries contact Denis McCarthy at info(at)int-a1.com or skype: denis_mccarthy

Source: http://www.ameinfo.com/148530.html

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Dubai to host 1st International Direct Selling Festival

Dubai’s 1st Direct Selling Festival is being organized by Direct Selling Educational Institute in Dubai.

• United Arab Emirates: Sunday, August 12 – 2007 at 15:36

Under the guidance and active participation of marketing guru Professor Charles W King, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a unique specialized exhibition & conference will be happening for the first time in the region – ‘Dubai’s 1st International Direct Selling Festival’.The event is sponsored by Direct Selling Educational Institute in Dubai.An industry that nurtures 60 million smart people across the globe to discover a better way to change their life by churning an income starting from a few hundred dollars to hundreds and thousands of dollars a month.

With low initial investment and a sure income that’s proportional to the work done, Direct Selling opens a world of immense opportunities with high profit returns. Dubai’s 1st International Direct Selling Festival aims at guiding the people in Dubai as well as the entire region to tap the potential of the Direct Selling industry.

While analyzing the scene of Direct Selling in Dubai, Professor Charles W King said, ‘The need of the hour is to organize and introduce the industry in UAE in a proper manner. This requires channelising the potential of the industry and legitimizing it by the UAE government. The supreme aim of the Direct Selling Festival is to help more and more people to build a successful career as a Direct Selling professional.’

Being a Professor of Marketing in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor King serves as a senior leader in the academic teaching, research and service functions of the University and also maintains an extensive consulting practice in the broad area of strategic planning, strategic marketing and management of the tactical marketing functions across a variety of industrial and consumer goods companies, trade associations, and public sector groups in the United States and Canada.

A powerful engine for growth, Direct Selling is a great option for those people who love to be their own boss, or aim to translate their free time to earning time. Market leaders in Direct Selling like Forever Living Products, Avon, Virgin Vie, DXN and Tiens in UAE are joining hands to support this movement.

The exhibition helps the Direct Selling industry to prosper and accelerate the growth by increasing the stature and credibility of direct selling companies and associations here in the region.

Dubai’s 1st International Direct Selling Festival, scheduled to be held on 15th and 16th May 2008 will unveil the infinite opportunities of this new world of Direct Selling and explore how the industry is going to change the lives of millions in the coming years.

Direct Selling is gaining momentum throughout the region as a legitimate and profitable way of doing business and has already been successful in stabilizing the grass roots economies of many countries. As an initial move, this Direct Selling Press Conference has been organized by Direct Selling Educational Institute and sponsored by Forever Living Products.

For more information on MLM opportunities in Dubai and other Middle East countries contact Denis McCarthy at info(at)int-a1.com or skype: denis_mccarthy

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Happy 2008.

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The IBIZ main website http://www.int-a1.com/ibiz will be further developed in 2008 to provide a central point for a great collection of business tools, opportunities, thought leadership and social networking.

In 2007 I explored dozens of business opportunities ( see www.int-a1.com/getrich/index.htm for details) . This experience allowed my to identify my top priority MLMs for 2008 and they are listed on the ibiz youtibe site and I am also listing them below. These are all excellent businesses if you are looking to develop a home-based business in 2008. Do your due diligence as I have and am sure you will feel confident to join our team.

In 2007 I discovered Social Networking and have joined several groups, including LinkedIn, Hi5, Lulu, Spoke, Squiddoo, MySpace, and my most recently Magnetic Sponsoring, which is my favourite for Network Marketing – see http://www.magneticsponsoring.com/my-account/denis7890.html

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