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Blogging to Drive Business
Product Description
Blogging can help you deepen customer loyalty, reach new customers, gain indispensable feedback, and drive more sales. This no-nonsense guide shows how to craft a business blog that does all that, and more building your business and increasing your profits. Top e-marketers and business bloggers Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt help you define clear goals, generate the right content with the right tools, attract visitors, build communities, and avoid costly mistakes. They draw on their own extensive experience, as well as the work of innovators from companies such as Intel, Wal-Mart, Google, HP, and BusinessWeek.
Whatever your role in the business, you ll learn how to:
Launch a blog that truly represents the best of your business
Create a comprehensive, long-term blogging strategy
Staff your blogging initiative
Integrate blogs with other offline and online marketing programs
Use your blog to drive customers and prospects to the business
Push up-to-the-minute information to customers via RSS
Build a thriving online community and learn from what it tells you
Manage comments (and decide whether to have them)
Utilize podcasts, vlogs, microblogging, and other new techniques
Gain business value from hot new Web 3.0 technologies, including widgets, mashups, personal agents, and the Semantic Web
About the Author
Eric Butow is CEO of Butow Communications Group (BCG), a Web design and online marketing firm in Jackson, California. Eric has written a wide variety of computing books since 2000, and his latest titles include User Interface Design for Mere Mortals, How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn, as well as custom For Dummies titles for F5 Networks and Hewlett-Packard. When Eric isn t writing or running his business, you ll catch him reading and enjoying the weather of the Sierra foothills.
Rebecca Bollwitt is the co-founder of sixty4media, which specializes in WordPress design and development as well as social media consulting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Rebecca has been blogging since 2004 on Miss604.com, and podcasting about music and hockey since 2005.Miss604.com was voted Best Vancouver Blog of 2009 in The Georgia Straight and in 2008, she was listed within the top ten Most Influential in Canadian Social Media by Profectio.com. She has organized social media conferences and charity fundraisers, including Blogathon Vancouver, Twestival Local, and the Best of 604 Awards.
Product Details
* Paperback: 192 pages
* Publisher: Que; 1 edition (January 21, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 078974256X
* ISBN-13: 978-0789742568
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