Comments on: Treat your Blog as your online home

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:37:49 +0000

If I had a £1 for every time I told small business owners to make use of their blog and make sure it is an important place to get familiar with.

Blogging is a great tool on so many different levels for small business owners. A little bit of time set aside for it should is time well spent.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:02:45 +0000

Good site for me as I am just beginning to get to grips with blogging. I look forward to the feeds.

By: leaflet distribution

leaflet distribution — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:34:58 +0000

This is a great post. I believe blogging in its various guises are an excellent way to get your marketing message out there. Using twitter, your blogs and sites like posterous are great web 2.0 platforms to drive business to your website.

By: Liz Tucker

Liz Tucker — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:19:20 +0000

I think the variety of social media sites all provide slightly different back-up for your business. And it’s difficult to see – at the moment at least – how Twitter is going to replace a much more comprehensive blog.

By: chester conferences

chester conferences — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:50:41 +0000

I agree, blogging is certainly here to stay. Social media applications are much better than they used to be.

By: Mark White, Blog Consultant

Mark White, Blog Consultant — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:58:41 +0000

Tim,

Thanks for your comment and I agree that there are certain elements which work best in a static format. Luckily, blogging software like Wordpress offers this perfectly with what they call their “pages” as opposed to their “posts” which we are more familiar with. Therefore if you need static pages (which of course you can still modify as and when required) then using a blog is still the ideal solution – indeed some of the blog sites I have built with Wordpress don’t yet have the blog enabled, they are simply using Wordpress as a Content Management System for the static site aspect you mention.

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By: Tim Read: Ripplenet web design

Tim Read: Ripplenet web design — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:35:10 +0000

One point is that often you need a static aspect to your site if you have a business, and a blog doesn’t really provide that very well. So I would say that a blog that’s embedded in a more traditional website is the best solution. And then you have your youtube, picassa, twitter and so on linking to the website.

By: William King

William King — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:07:05 +0000

Well brought up Analogy. Certainly, social media tools don’t deserve negligence and blogs have their own worth. But when it comes to comparison blogs are more worthwhile than social media tools. They are more informative and comprehensive conversely social media tools are full of spammers and irrelevant stuff. So personally I believe blogs should be given priority on social media tools.

By: Michael MacMahon

Michael MacMahon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:56:35 +0000

Brilliant analogy, Mark. I can’t improve on the many positive comments you’ve already received. As a writer, I want to be sure that many potential readers get to meet me at home, not fleetingly in a coffee-bar or pub. Therefore that one analogy tells me that blogging needs to be a central part of my strategy.

Keep up the good work!