Girl, I’m telling you. Blogs are so cool…fun, easy & convenient.

I started taking new meds today, and I’m beat. So, I’m going to bed right now with my girls.

Although, I didn’t do any work on my site today, I just checked my inbox and got this great article to post.

While Ed Dale & Frank Kern are the Underacheiver Masters, Jim Edwards is the Multimedia Online Master. Actually, I think he’s an ebook master, ezine master, and online business marketing master.

So, read up on this easy how-to article for Blogging for Fun & Profits. Don’t forget to sign-up

for his priceless marketing tips through his newsletter.

You can keep the Women’s Empowerment Cycle rolling…here. Start blogging, make a comment below.

Nighty-night.

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“Blogging” For Fun & Profits -

by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved

http://www.thenetreporter.com

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Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last year, you’ve heard

the term “blog” once or twice.

To most people, a “blog” simply

represents a glorified online “diary” where geeks, computer nerds,

and lonely teenagers record their thoughts in cyber-space.

However,many people don’t realize that “blogs” are quietly

revolutionizing the way companies and customers interact

about everything from existing products to new ideas and

improvements in customer service.

In short, “blog” style communication has come of age and anyone with

an online business better sit up and take notice fast!

In the beginning, “blogs” were basically an online diary to

record your thoughts; but “blogs” have now evolved into dynamic

websites that non-technical people can update immediately

without html editors or ftp programs.

Blogs allow their authors to make instant website updates

through a computer anywhere in the world with a Web

browser and Internet connection.

Blogs also allow readers to respond to the author’s posts,

provide additional information, links, expanded opinions, and more.

In short, an active “blog” creates an interactive community

with the author as the hub and the readers as the

spokes of the wheel that keep the whole cycle turning round.

Unlike traditional “static” web pages where content rarely (if ever) changes, an

active blog evolves in a state of constant and never-ending renewal.

With blogs, smart online businesses re-discovered a principal that small

“mom and pop” stores understood for years: know your customers and

stay in close tune with their wants, needs, and desires.

Large companies throw billions of dollars down a black hole every year to

literally “guess” what people want to buy. Most call it the “Marketing Department.”

On the flipside, smart online businesses understand that blogs allow you to

avoid guessing what’s on your customers’ minds and provide an active

and up-to-the-minute means for them to tell you exactly what they do

and don’t like about your services, products, and virtually any other

aspect of the market.

This lightning fast communication makes it possible for small companies to

literally snatch huge market share away from more traditional companies.

Blogging also has a distinct advantage over traditional email newsletters

in that subscribers can get udpates without having to receive an email message.

Through the power of RSS (real simple syndication), subscribers get notified

of updated content though an rss news reader.

Bottom Line:

publishing a blog with an RSS feed that your readers can subscribe

to means your content NEVER gets blocked by a SPAM filter.

Blog software basically comes in 2 flavors: hosted and stand-alone.

Hosted blogging solutions make it extremely easy to get set up with

a blog, often in just a couple of minutes.

If you know how to type, you can create a blog. Log on to

Blogger.com and you can set up a

blog free of charge and start posting in just a few minutes.

Blogger.com (owned by search giant, Google) will even host your blog on their

servers.

Typepad.com, which charges as little as $4.95 per month,

is also an excellent hosted service offering additional features that

enable you to quickly get your own blog up and running.

The alternative is stand-alone blogging software installed on your own website.

A very popular solution is Moveable Type, available from moveabletype.org,

which provides a very versatile and powerful suite of tools for creating

a full-featured blog to rival that of any size company in the world.

<-- Side Note --> Moveable Type is the solution

I’ve chosen for my blog at http://www.IGottaTellYou.com/blog/

<-- End Side Note -->

Whichever blogging solution you choose, if you plan to successfully

conduct any form of business online, understand that a “blog” must form

an integral part of your overall plan for customer communication and

interaction.

– Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author

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Posted on February 8th, 2005 by ponnsabra
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