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3 Ways Blogging Can Help Grow Your Business

If you’ve been working on your business for a while, you’ve likely heard how important having a blog can be for your ultimate success. However, because this can be a very big time investment for your business, many business owners don’t feel that they can take the time to create a successful blog for themselves. But when it comes down to it, choosing to take the plunge and make blogging a part of your marketing plan can be a real boon for your business. To show you how, here are three ways blogging can help you grow your online business. [Read more…]

How Podcasting Can Improve Your Blog’s Reach

You’ve probably heard, at some point, that blogging has created massive opportunities for creative individuals. It offered an avenue for stating your opinions, and share your voice with others via digital means.

But once a blog was in place, the next level of challenge settled into your creative concerns: How do you reach more people? Because everyone is vying for limited attention, your blog has to be exceptional in all regards.

One way to convince those millions of potential readers on the web that your perspective is worthy of their time is to add a podcasting element to the mix. The podcast format allows people to listen (instead of just read) your blog … and a number of other opportunities become apparent once you’ve done a bit of research.

Make Sure You Understand Both Platforms First

Before you jump too far into podcasting, though, make sure you understand the basic frameworks of both blogging and podcasting. When you decided to create a blog, what general format did you use? WordPress, maybe, or Joomla? Or did you build your site totally from scratch?

Whatever your method, you should be sure that you understand that format fully so you’re not missing any opportunities for advancing your goals. The same goes for podcasting.

Do you intend to stream it somewhere? Are there any potential music copyright issues to be aware of? Address those questions first. [Read more…]

3 Tips for Writing Better Medical Blogs

While writing comes naturally to some, most medical professionals who decide to take on the task of medical blogging quickly realize that they aren’t one of those kinds of people. As a medical professional, you’ve dedicated your life to knowing how to perform procedures like colon and rectal surgery, not how to write to an audience about it. Because of this, it can be very difficult for doctors or other medical workers to feel like they’re having success with their blogging efforts. So to help with this, here are three tips that can make your medical blogs a little easier to write and better to read. [Read more…]

Not Putting Links In Your Blog Posts? Here’s Why You Should Be

A person is perusing the internet, looking for something interesting to read. Maybe they have a distinctive goal of what they want to read, like they are working on a book report or some research about some future project, or maybe they are just looking for something interesting. They type a few words into the search bar, pick blogs as their primary interest, and they are bombarded with hundreds of different blogs ranging from mild interest in their subject of choice to the holy grail of bloggers. [Read more…]

Best Online Resources for Cannabis Information

Marijuana may be known to be an illicit substance but it has been proven to have health and commercial benefits. Commercial-wise, it has been used as an ingredient in making various products such as paper, rope, canvas, textiles, lubricating oil and shoe materials. In fact, making paper out of hemp is considered to more eco-friendly as it uses fewer toxic chemicals which means less pollution. [Read more…]