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Do you believe in keeping your users up to date?

20. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Are you regularly updating your customers?

The next time you go out and get interested in buying a car, chances are you ask what kind of features it has. Your business and blog users are no different. They regularly try to figure out what is changing in the products and services that you offer. Customers want to know what kind of different new features any upgrades or add-ons may have, while potential customers and users try to figure out the specific things your overall core of business actually provides. Unless you provide all of such people with actual updates and notes, you may be losing business or loyalty in the long run.

Keeping your users up to date with the latest release note helps maintain customer loyalty and interest in an extremely powerful way. Your users regularly try to find out what is changing in the services and products they use. Corporate blogs of any kind, from Facebook to PlayStation to Microsoft, help loyal customers realize and relate to what is happening at such companies.

In order to make sure customers know constantly that you are there for them, you have to update your customers and users of all kinds with the different announcements and information that relate to them.

Ways to keep your users updated

Articles

awareness, blog, communication, Customers, featured, interaction, readers, updates

Where Does Your Blog Fit in Your Business?

15. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

What role does your blog play in your business?

Do you know the role your blog plays in your business?

Every business should try to regularly review the different components it depends on and uses to figure out their place within the business. From different departments to actual products and services, a business can figure out the importance or shortage of different elements needed for both survival and prosperity. Your exact focus on anything in life in order to make money makes it the equivalent of a business for you. You should try to figure out the roles different elements play in any business for you.

Your blog should go under the same kind of review. Your blog, whether personal or business or both, probably exists to serve some kind of a need. Your blog can either make or break your business. By seeing the wrong tools or articles on your blog, people may avoid taking you seriously and may actually not do any business with you. With the good tools and content, your blog can help you and your business become better and generate more clients and readers. Therefore, you have to figure out the role your blog plays in your business if you want to improve both your business and your blog.

In order to figure out the role your blog may play in your business so that you can appreciate clients and your blog more, regardless of the size or type of business, you may start figuring out the types of roles a blog can play in any business.

5 Different Roles Blogs Can Play in Your Business

Questions

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Deliver Your Blog Content in Multiple Ways

11. Jul, 2010 2 Comments

Are you delivering your blog content in different ways?

Your blog content depends on a delivery venue. The computer screens and browsers that your clients use greatly affect the way your site performs and appears in the minds of the blog readers. The same way browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox deliver your blog to your blog readers, there are several other methods your blog readers can use to get your blog content.

Majority of the blogs on the internet depend upon the trend of having a blog reader visit them. You can take a step further if you want to be very successful. You have to bring your blog to the blog readers. When you bring your blog to a blog reader, you are basically allowing that blog reader to view and benefit from your content at their own preferred venue and time. You also reduce the number of steps many blog readers have to take in order to get your blog content. The easier it is for your blog readers to get your content, the more loyal blog readers you will get for your blog.

In addition to the regular browser, you can deliver your blog to your readers and clients in many different ways, including the following 4 important and powerful ones.

4 Different Ways to Deliver Your Blog Content

Blogging, Tips

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Consistency in Your Blogging Efforts

10. Jul, 2010 2 Comments

Are you consistent in your blogging efforts?

While it can be very easy to start a blog, it can be quite hard to maintain it. From writing blog posts, coming up with topics to write about and bringing in visitors to answering e-mails, replying to comments and keeping people interested in your blog, the entire concept of blogging can be the most time consuming online activity in your life. And that can be for a good reason too, because all the time and effort you put into your blog pays off in both the short and the long run. The one thing you have to realize through your entire blogging effort is consistency.

Being consistent in your blogging efforts basically means that you keep maintaining your entire blog and the elements related to it at least on an almost regular basis. For example, if your blog gives blog readers one new article in July, two articles in August, 20 articles in September and then 5 articles in October, people may simply lost interest in your blog because of the inconsistent scheduling of your blog posts. While consistency itself may have nothing to do with the quality of your blog and blogging efforts, blog readers do try to incorporate your blog and your ideas into their already active lives. Being consistent means your blog readers can find it easier to be interested in your blog in both the long and the short run.

In order to have a successful blog, you need to be consistent in your blogging efforts. The following list will help you focus on 5 things in your blogging efforts in order to be more consistent.

5 Things to Be Consistent About on Your Blog

Blogging, Tips

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Allow Your Customers to Vent

09. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Are you allowing your customers to vent?

Probably not a day goes by where your blog does not end up making someone upset. Whether it is because of what you said or because of what your blog stands for, the idea of getting upset means that all of your blog reader and client base includes several people who are not completely satisfied with you. In order to build a good blog, you have to both get customers to become happy and customers to work with you in solving their problems. The only way to do the latter is to figure out what problems customers are having.

You may already be wondering why your clients get upset. In addition to working out different plans to see why some or several of your clients may be upset or not as active as other clients, you can create venues on your blog to allow clients and everyone else to vent and let you know the things that they do not like. Blogs that do not allow customers to vent are like shops which do not allow a customer to do anything other than to pay for a service.

The only successful way to keep a customer loyal and happy for the long run is to actually find out the problems a customer may be having so that you can solve them. And the best way to find out a problem is to have a customer vent to you directly.

3 Ways to Allow Customers to Vent

Tips

blog, business, clients, communication, Customers, featured, readers, vent

Bloggers don’t know what you want unless you tell them

06. Jul, 2010 2 Comments

Are you telling bloggers what you want?

Every week you spend hours reading posts and emails from people who are telling you what they want. Bloggers also do the same thing through their blog posts, telling you what they want from you. You, as a blog reader or commentor, have to tell the blogger what you want also. People cannot guess easily what you have in mind. Even if they assume something, they may not act upon it as they do not know whether or not their guess is correct. Tell other people, including bloggers, what you want if you want something.

There is a difference between telling someone what you want and demanding something from someone. Usually, people who tell someone what they want end up getting more things compared to people who expect or demand things. You have to work for something and you have to tell others what you are looking for. The simplest form of such work is to simply voice out your desire. On blogs, it is one of the crucial things in order to get something from a blog or a blogger.

The same way blog readers do not know what you want unless you tell them, bloggers do not know what you want unless you tell them. It is time to speak up.

Tell bloggers what you want!

Articles, Tips

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59% bloggers do not reply to every comment – June 2010

01. Jul, 2010 2 Comments

59 percent readers do not reply to all commentors

Do majority of bloggers reply to every comment on their blog?

The most important trends of today will affect your blog and blogging today and tomorrow. RA Project focuses on figuring out what the online and offline world of readers and customers think, so that your business and blogs can function better in order to both appreciate your clients and your blog readers. Today we have very important and fascinating results for you when it comes to figuring out whether or not you should reply to each and every reader or client who leaves a comment on your blog.

Here are the results of the Poll “Should you reply to every commentor on your blog?” which was open from June 18th,2010 and ended last night, June 30th, 2010.

A total of 1,018 RA Project readers voted in this poll.

Majority of bloggers prefer not replying to every blog comment they get

Case studies, Surveys

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Readers Don’t Know What You Want Unless You Tell Them

25. Jun, 2010 3 Comments

Are you telling your blog readers what you want?

The reason many blogs exist is to convey a message. Your blog delivers your message to your reader, who are in fact your clients. You spent hours daily trying to get people to come to your blog and participate on different things. People find out about your blog and take use of the different resources you have available for them. They spend time on your site. Judging from their blog traffic, many people think they have done quite well in such cases and that their readers are doing what they are supposed to do.

Wrong! The same way you try to figure out what your readers and clients are looking for, your readers and clients also try to figure out what you are expecting from them. The mere fact that many people are visiting your blog does not mean that they will do what you want them to do. Imagine setting up a bicycle shop in your neighborhood. If you go around telling people “Hey, I rent this space at this address, visit me!“, you may get some curious people to visit you. But it would take extra messages and call to actions to make people inquire about what your shop is about, and to make people actually be interested in buying something from you.

Your blog is the same. Your blog readers do not know what you want from them on your blog unless you tell them what you would like them to do. Call them to action by telling them what you want!

Tell your blog readers what you want

Articles, Tips

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Do you know why your clients get upset?

24. Jun, 2010 5 Comments

Are your clients upset?

One of the best things about building good relations with your clients and blog readers is to find out what upsets them. Whether it is something related to what you offer or something that people encounter elsewhere, there is probably something online or offline that upsets your clients and blog readers. These external elements can result in any potential clients not actually paying attention to what you have to say, and any existing clients or blog readers to not be convinced by your call to action messages. Some people may even associate your messages with the elements that upset them. You want to make sure that never or rarely happens by ensuring that that your clients and readers are happy with you.

If you want to build good and long term relations with both your clients and blog readers, you have to find out how to convey your message without triggering any of the upsetting elements that you are aware of. A good writing adapts to both the writer and the readers. Good content adapts to both the content producer and the receivers.

Are you adapting enough to figure out why your clients get upset?

10 Elements that can upset your clients

Tips, Writing

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Are Your Potential Readers Better Than Your Current Readers?

23. Jun, 2010 6 Comments

Are your new blog readers better than old ones?

I found myself at the bank last week standing in a line for around 5 minutes waiting for a cashier. While waiting, I turned around and saw several other people sitting on leather seats talking to the bank staff. Why was I standing while they were sitting? They were new customers, of course. The bank already had my money, and already had my account. Leather was too high of a standard for existing customers like me.

Your blog may be acting in a similar fashion. Because of the popularity of the blogosphere, many bloggers focus on luring in readers in order to let them roam free around their blogs. Such blogs fail to create any extra incentives for readers who have already found those blogs. Instead, such blogs focus on getting new readers to come along and join the crowd. The real prize for many blogs, it seems, is the population that lies outside of the growing crowd that exists within the blog.

In this article, we will go through the question: Are your potential readers better than your current readers?