Posts Tagged ‘Blogger’

Monica M. Brinkman is the author of "The Turn of The Karmic Wheel", which I reviewed for you all yesterday.  A free-lance author and poet, she embraces stories that have meaning and purpose.   She is currently working on the sequal to the Karmic Wheel and will be releasing that soon. Through A Childs Eyes Remembrances [...]

As a blogger who loves free stuff, and who occasionally posts for pay, the FTC guidelines on Testimonials & Endorsements for bloggers really concerned me.  I worried that maybe my well of free things and tiny Huge payments would dry up.  Or at the very least I’d have to pay extra taxes or penalties if I didn’t disclose my relationships properly.  Luckily, there are a lot of smarter more informed people out there in the internet who really understand what’s going on.  So here are some great articles to help you figure out these new rules. Read the rest of this entry »

For a while now, I’ve been doing a few reviews here and there, on this site, and my others.  I have one website, Books4Moms, that I only do book reviews on.  I love it, mostly because I get lots of great free books, but also because I get lots of great free books!  Of course there are some not so great free books, but the point is the GREAT free books.  I’ve done other reviews on Best Homeschool Place for homeschool services, programs, curriculum, books, games, and even some movies.  I’ve also done some reviews for TV shows on my personal website, Wyndsong Writes.  Reviews are fun!  One, because you get something free, usually it’s something good and fun, and then you have something to blog about!  Something more than just, “Hi, My name is Christine, and I’m a mommy blogger”.  That’s all the GOOD stuff about reviewing products and stuff…. so what’s the bad stuff? Read the rest of this entry »

Mamapedia

What Is Mamapedia?

Mamapedia.com is a new site – still in Beta – that has taken the advice given by thousands and thousands of moms at Mamasource.com and has made it searchable in question format. Imagine a Google that searches just for the advice of real moms given to other moms! That is Mamapedia.

*Thank you to New Baby for donating this VADO camera from Creative Labs to our fun event. Please check out New Baby and consider adding your own vlog!




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With the Valentine’s day coming up this weekend, everyone is coming up with holiday specific posts. I know with all of my various blogs it hasn’t been easy to find something to say. My sweetheart and I don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, because our anniversary is at the end of the month. So that makes it even harder to figure out! So what’s a blogger to do??

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There is no question that blogs are great for business. When you blog, you can connect with your target market and promote your product(s). Blogger is a free, easy to use blogging service offered by Google. Using this service can be a great way to market your business.

When you use a service such as Blogger, you can create posts that explain the features and benefits of your product in a subtle way. For instance, if you have an information product on growing tulips, you can create posts that give a bit of helpful information. At the end of the post you can add “for more information ”.

If you have a physical product, you can create similar posts, giving people reasons to buy your product. If you happen to sell kitchenware, you could create an informative post about the benefits of silicone bake ware. You can add pictures of your product to your post and include a link to the page where your readers can buy the bake ware.

Blogs serve as a great communication tool. You can keep your readers up to date with any changes you have made to your site, provide information on new products you are going to be introducing, and receive feedback on the types of products your customers wish you would develop.

Another way to communicate with your target market and position yourself as an expert is to establish a “question of the week” feature to your blog. Simply have your readers send in their questions, and then, one day each week, choose one of the questions to answer. Your readers will look forward to this interactivity and will take note to visit each week to see if their question was chosen.

You can also use Blogger to increase the size of your mailing list by adding a sign up form to your newsletter or other autoresponder list. Once people are subscribed to your newsletter, you can continue to market to them.

Adding links back to your website on your blog will also help your website gain search engine traffic. The search engines crawl the Internet, and when a site has a lot of links coming into it, the search engines take notice. This can help your website rise in the results pages when someone performs a search using one of the keywords on your page.

These are just a few of the reasons why it is important to have a blog and how you can use a service like Blogger for marketing purposes. As you get more familiar with blogging, you can add an RSS feed to your blog, which will notify your readers that you have created a new post. This will keep your readers coming back regularly, and further help your marketing efforts.