19
Sep
45 Reasons You Need A Blog
Author: Cynthia Norris- You can advertise and promote your products
- You can create lists of the benefits of your products
- You can create a virtual tour of your factory or showroom
- Your readers will learn about you, your company, and your products
- You can post your packaging to see what people think
- You will become connected to your customers
- You get syndication through RSS
- You get syndication through automatic emails
- You get searched by Google Blog Search
- You gets links from lots of other websites
- You will get lots of traffic and repeat traffic
- Google will love you
- You get indexed by Technorati, del.icio.us, Digg
- You can ask for feedback
- You can receive testimonials through the comments
- You can answer common email questions so everyone can see them
- Your posts can be emailed easily
- You can trackback to other posts
- Other posts trackback to your post
- You can list your favorite sites
- You can list your best written posts
- You can list your most popular posts
- You can create a user poll
- You can print entire interviews so the press can never misquote you again
- You will stay on top of your industry’s news
- You will meet all kinds of people that share your interests
- You can attract the attention of major press outlets
- It will create a an archive of your company’s history
- It will keep your employees informed of company news
- It will annihilate buyer’s remorse
- You will count your visitors by the week, day, hour, minute
- You will compare your circulation to that of newspapers
- You will reach an international audience
- You can share your company philosophy
- You will learn what your customers really think of you
- You can teach customers how to use your product with tutorials
- You can give away prizes for readers who participate the most and give you your best ideas and advice
- You can find news about your industry and write a post about it
- It creates a record for you to reread and realize you’ve missed a few things
- You will be way ahead of your competition
- You can respond instantly to negative press on other blogs or websites
- You can plan blog-reader-only sales and events only for people who read your blog
- You can write an op-ed and it will actually be published somewhere
- Blogging is just starting to catch on in the corporate world so you are ahead of the curve
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