Blogging has been around for a while now, there are those who blog and there are those who don't, whichever group you fall in most people have heard about blogging. One thing that's for sure is that there are many small to medium sized companies who are failing to take advantage of the marketing opportunities provided to them by blogging.

What is a blog? In short a blog is an online diary that anyone can read, and that is easy to update regularly adding elements like company updates, advice, links, photos or video clips by following very simple procedures. Initially blogs (as was twitter) were used by private individuals to document their daily life or adventures and was mainly for the use of celebrities, however as with most social media, things have moved on and very quickly!

In the business world they've found a number of uses, most commonly as a type of newsletter add-on to a company website. The simple updating features mean that anyone can add the latest news to the website, it also helps with SEO (search engine optimization) which is a great benefit but I won't go into that right now. Whilst also showing visitors to the site the latest products, services or even just give them (ideally) helpful tips/advise (specialist knowledge is just as useful as product innovation).

This simple method is a useful tool, but it doesn't exploit the whole idea of blogs which is to build a regular following; when people subscribe to any blog they receive notifications of blog updates and so come back and visit regularly. You can't build subscribers purely on press releases and recently completed work photos so you have to get more creative, when done well this helps you create your business community/loyalty.

The idea is simple; give people something useful for free, entice them back regularly and encourage them to try your services as you do it. Then you will start to see the true value of blogging.

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