Blog or a Website?
Creating your own blog is not only fun, but the concept of a blog is growing in popularity in terms of running your own home based business.
So the question arises should you create a blog or a website for your business? Traditionally websites have been the cornerstone of all online businesses. Whereas, a blog has been looked upon as a means of keeping your friends and family in touch with what is happening in your life.
All that is changing however, so you need to decide the pros and cons of both avenues of promoting your home based business. The people who have been marketing online for years will tell you that you should have both, as I do. Some will even say that a blog is not as professional as a website.
My thought is that a blog can do as much, if not sometimes more for your business. It is hard to tell a blog from a website from just looking at one. A blog is an excellent way to reach a number of people who otherwise would not have looked at your website. There is a whole new community of bloggers who read and access each others blogs.
Whereas, with a website you advertise and wait for someone to click on your site and then hopefully they will make a purchase or even come back to your site at a later date. A business using only a website will take longer to get indexed and recognized in the online business world.
Blogging–What a Great Word!
I like blogging. I like the word…the word came into existence around 1999 and actually is another name for Weblog, which we all know started out as a a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
However, blogging is such a cool word. Much better than saying “I Weblog”. People would look at you and wonder if you were going off the deep end.
So why do I like blogging. Because of this, what I am doing right now. I am putting all my thoughts and ideas down to share with others. Providing those who are interested want to share it with me. No one has to read it or agree with anything I write. It is nice if they like what I write, but not necessary to my overall satisfaction.
I have been article writing for my home business for some time. I like my home business, I enjoy it, I find great satisfaction from working at home. But I never really felt comfortable writing an article. I think it stems from my childhood and the problems I was told I had with the English language. The offhanded remarks of some pretty insensitive teachers gave me a lifelong fear of writing my thoughts for anyone else to read. I never even kept a diary for fear someone else would read it and make fun of it.
Blog Writing
Do you know what the most difficult aspect of blogging is? It is coming up with new and unique content every day or every week. And yet there are thousands of sites on the Internet that offer free content. So why not use them!
If you are new to blogging, then by all means use these sites. They help with good quality content for both your blog and your website. However, be very careful not to plagiarize. If you are going to reprint the content verbatim then use the resource box at the end of the article, do not claim the article was your own. This will get you in a lot of trouble.
That being said, I also would like to point out that most of the articles I have read are repeats of other articles only in different words. So essentially you are rewriting the same article over and over. There might be a different spin on the subject, different wording, different conclusions, but the core of the articles are the same. No matter if it is about affiliate marketing, advertising, a certain program…the core of the article is to sell.
So how do you come up with unique articles for your blog if you don’t have experience? You pick a subject and read as many articles on that subject as you can handle, then you write your own article. Yes, you are giving the same old article your spin, the difference is because you read more than one article on the subject, you have been exposed to different viewpoints, and your spin will be different than everyone elses, making your article more unique.
