Can I Make Blogging My Business?
Author: George Meszaros

Through your blog, you may be able to find a publisher for your
next book. You may have never though about writing a book
before, but blogging is not much different from writing a book.
Your readers can help you sharpen your writing skills, if you
pay attention to their feedback. Once you published your book,
use your blog to create a buzz around it. The visitors reading
your blog may become the unpaid advocates for your newly
published book.

You should allow your customers to blog too. Yes, why not
invite some of your customers to write about their experiences
in your blog. You may invite them to review one of your
products, or ask them to describe their experience dealing with
your company. This form of testimonial builds trust between your
customers and your company.

When there is trouble communicate quickly and honestly in your
blog. Sometimes there may be bad news on the horizon. There is
no reason to avoid using your blog to help put out fires. If
there is trouble, let your blog help you resolve it. For
example, you may have a software company that just realized
there is a bug in the latest program release. Informing your
customers about the bug is bad news, but the rapid communication
will be appreciated.

While blogs can help you establish your business, build
credibility, or improve relationships with your customers, there
are several ways you can profit from your blog. Create a
subscription-based blog where you readers pay a monthly or
yearly membership fee. A members only blog may be that private
section of your publicly available blog. In such a way you can
create interest on your public blog and sell membership to the
private section. If you are writing about a certain product you
may be able to sell advertising space on your blog for the
manufacturer. Another option is to become an affiliate and
generate revenue that way. Adsense is another possible source of
revenue for bloggers. If you decide to go the adsense route be
sure you have a fair amount of site visitors. You need a
significant amount of traffic to make money with this option.


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