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If you are going to use a blog in your own business, you need to think seriously about the time commitment it entails. Many would-be bloggers make a start only for their enthusiasm to fall away when the pressures of everyday life get in the way.
Aside from this, it is actually quite hard to find something interesting to write about on a regular basis without simply
re-hashing yesterday’s news or the views of others. There are a number of different blogging platforms, but one of the
providers opposite may be a good place to start. Blogger is probably the easiest to get started on, while WordPress is most popular with business bloggers for the wide number of slick templates at your disposal.
Getting noticed is an eternal issue with blogging, as with any form of self-promotion. Some people are better at it than others, but the answer depends on the nature of your blog. If, like Brad, you plan to publish content for small businesspeople on the merits of different types of printing, then you must accept that this is unlikely to become part of the mainstream consciousness.
If, however, you plan to be at the cutting edge of a political or social debate (or to be seen as an expert on a topic of wider interest), then you could hope for more. If you are more mainstream, then make some effort to comment on the blogs of writers in your field with which you fundamentally agree or disagree. Exchange respect, then exchange links and trackbacks.More will follow.
Either way, you should submit your blog to some of the leading blog directories, the most important of which is Technorati (www.technorati. com). Below is a shortlist to get you going; further resources, as usual, are available on the forum.
- www.technorati.com
- www.blogcatalog.com
- www.bloghub.com
- www.blogflux.com
- www.britblog.com
- www.blogtoplist.com
- www.blogdirs.com