Professional Blogging For Dummies - Softcover

Getgood, Susan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470601795 ISBN 13: 9780470601792

Verlag: For Dummies, 2010

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Take your hobby to the next level and turn your blog into real income

Anyone who blogs knows that it is a fun, creative way for sharing thoughts and opinions. Now imagine making money from that hobby! This practical, how-to guide shows you how you can get serious about using your blog and implement advertising, sponsorship, partnerships, and affiliate marketing options to turn your hobby into extra income, or even a full-time career.

Helpful examples and featured articles with topic experts and bloggers who have built successful business demonstrate how to promote your business or build a blog-based business.

• Discusses finding your niche, adhering to legal considerations, establishing your disclosure and privacy policies, and dealing responsibly with review requests
• Introduces ideas for advertising and other monetization options and recommends promotional avenues to explore
• Suggests creative ways to keep your blog fresh, unique, and interesting
• Provides tips for monitoring and measuring your success

Professional Blogging For Dummies opens the door to a world of money-making blogging possibilities!

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Susan J. Getgood is the Principal of GetGood Strategic Marketing (www.getgood.com). She advises organizations on social media and marketing strategies that build brands and drive revenue. Her blog, Marketing Roadmaps, can be read at http://getgood.com/roadmaps/. Follow her on Twitter as @sgetgood.

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Turn a blog into real income! Here's how you build a blog-based business

If you want to blog like you mean business, this book is for you. Whether you own a small business or work solo from your kitchen table, this book helps you successfully use your blog as a business. How do you find a niche, plan a strategy, promote your blog, and monetize it? It's all here, and more, in this friendly guide.

• It's all in the approach tackle things the way professionals do, by setting realistic goals and building a business plan

• Know who everybody is understand your competition, define your audience, and find your own niche

• Get some people do you need a lawyer? An accountant? Protect your business blog with trademarks, copyrights, and other important practices and policies

• Mind your money learn how to monetize your blog, set up a budget, and get paid

• Build a blog that brings 'em in choose a name and a Web host, and then see how to design a killer blog

• Get the word out promote like crazy using search engines, social networking, traditional marketing, and PR

• Crunch the numbers explore ways to measure and analyze your results with Google Alerts, Google Analytics, and FeedBurner

Open the book and find:

• What professional bloggers know

• How to turn a hobby blog into a business

• Different ways to monetize your blog

• Why promotion is the key to blogging success

• The pros and cons of selling in your online store or someone else's

• Design tips to make your blog unique

• Interviews with successful blog-preneurs

• Ten common mistakes and how to avoid them

Learn to:

• Find your niche to build a blog-basedbusiness

• Earn income from your blog

• Create content and a design thatattract readers

• Monitor and measure your success

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470601795
• ISBN 13: 9780470601792
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar