Blogging

How to Start a Blog

How to Create a Blog?
The best way to start a blog is to choose one of the several weblog platforms (websites), which facilitate blogging on the world wide web. Some of the most popular blogging platforms include Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, TypePad and Bravenet. Most of these platforms provide the service for free, while others charge a stipulated fee. Once you have chosen the platform, you will have to go to the website and sign up for the service. While services like the Blogger allow you to use your Google account to start your own blog, others such as the WordPress and Bravenet require you to sign up on the host site. The sign up process will require you to fill up some simple verification details about yourself, and on completion of this process you will get the URL for your blog. As a next step you will be directed to the customization process, wherein you will get to choose the layout of your blog. There would be a wide variety of templates and colors to choose from, using which you can give your blog the look you want. Once you are done with the customization part, you can go to the settings panel and start blogging. You will be given the step by step directions on how to blog throughout the process. You can even watch the preview of your post, and make the necessary changes before your publish your post. Going through the blogging tips for beginners will help you to get into further details of this activity.

How to Make Money through a Blog?
That brings us to one of the most sought after topic in blogging – blog monetization. This is much more easier when you host your blog yourself, but to do that you need to be well versed with the technical aspects of web hosting. You will have to choose a particular niche for your blog in order to get advertisers to advertise their products and services on it. For instance, if you blog about technology and gadgets, there would be a hordes of advertisers out there who would be willing to advertise their products on your blog. If you are purely into blogging to make money, it is wiser to choose a niche which can attract a decent amount of visitors. Technology, real estate, music, car rentals and other such commercial topics are some popular niches to choose from. Other than adding quality content on a regular basis, you also need to know how to promote your blog to pull in more traffic. This will help your blog rank in the search engines like the Google search engine. Better ranking and a decent number of visitors will help you in getting the best possible deals as far as ads are concerned. If you host your blog yourself, you can optimize and manage your blog on your own. If you avail the free blogging services, on the other hand, you will have to avail the services of ad serving applications, such as Google AdSense, to generate text, image and video ads for you blog.

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10 Tips for Successful Business Networking

Effective business networking is the linking together of individuals who, through trust and relationship building, become walking, talking advertisements for one another.


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Keep in mind that networking is about being genuine and authentic, building trust and relationships, and seeing how you can help others.

Ask yourself what your goals are in participating in networking meetings so that you will pick groups that will help you get what you are looking for. Some meetings are based more on learning, making contacts, and/or volunteering rather than on strictly making business connections.

Visit as many groups as possible that spark your interest. Notice the tone and attitude of the group. Do the people sound supportive of one another? Does the leadership appear competent? Many groups will allow you to visit two times before joining.

Become known as a powerful resource for others. When you are known as a strong resource, people remember to turn to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, etc. This keeps you visible to them.

Have a clear understanding of what you do and why, for whom, and what makes your doing it special or different from others doing the same thing. In order to get referrals, you must first have a clear understanding of what you do that you can easily articulate to others.

Be able to articulate what you are looking for and how others may help you. Too often people in conversations ask, "How may I help you?" and no immediate answer comes to mind.

Follow through quickly and efficiently on referrals you are given. When people give you referrals, your actions are a reflection on them. Respect and honor that and your referrals will grow.

Call those you meet who may benefit from what you do and vice versa. Express that you enjoyed meeting them, and ask if you could get together and share ideas.

Stephanie Speisman is a Success Coach who coaches groups and individuals in business networking skills based on her booklet "99 Tips for Successful Business Networking.