My first experience with hyperlinks was ages ago when I first trained to repair Apple computers in the early 80s. I thought to myself then, “Can you imagine if the world could hyperlink its combined global knowledge?” Wait, isn’t that what the Internet and blogging enables us to do today?
As a global community we’ve become a giant publishing house, and we don’t have to submit our works for approval, or get put on waiting lists for distribution. Do a Google search for just about any topic and you’ll likely return millions of results.
Someone told me recently that there are more websites on the Internet than there are people on Earth. I was like, “Really?!”
Blogging helps share your business or passion with others
On the local front, I was just asked to help my brother-in-law clean up his laptop, and while doing so, found out he didn’t use the Internet. Why? He thought it was evil, filled with nothing but adult content. Admittedly, he’s the one and only person I’ve ever met that thought that way, but it got me to thinking.
Now, he had been using email to communicate, and that’s essentially how his laptop became infected. He didn’t know anything about malware or anti-virus software. Once I cleaned up his laptop, I sat him down and explained how the Internet could actually help him in his daily life.
I also reinforced that he should not open up any hyperlinks when he didn’t know where they were coming from or leading him to, as that can be very dangerous. In this case, I was able to clean his laptop, but good grief – it was a mess.
I showed him how to search for topics that interested him, explained how hyperlinks worked and introduced him to some blogs that I thought he might be interested in reading. Which takes us to why we should blog.
Blog about your passion
The why to blog should be obvious
It’s an incredibly easy way to reach a targeted audience, giving you to the opportunity to communicate your vision, products or services. It helps keep you in touch with your prospects and customers, and it’s an extremely cost effective marketing tool.
The how to blog is a little more complex
Essentially, pick a topic that interests you and start writing. Share your insight, ask for opinions, run some polls – seek out participation. Don’t worry so much about being perfect (perfect people are boring).
I’ve heard that 2000-word blog articles get ranked better by Google, but I think the real key is to be consistent, spreading the wealth over longer periods of time. The key is to keep readers regularly coming back for more.
Don’t forget about Facebook likes
Part of the how is writing value-add content and then letting someone know your blog is out there; your friends, Twitter contacts, business associates or clients.
A very important aspect to growing your blog is to always respond to comments. This builds loyalty and trust, two key factors to sell anything, from ideas to mouse traps to fishing gear. If you’re publishing a blog now – I’d love to hear your take on why and how to blog.
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