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e_Marketing Blog 8 Reasons Why You Need A Blog Basic list of reasons to have a blog...My recent promotions for AutoBlog have created a fair number of questions about the value of having your own blog for doing things like marketing products and communicating with customers. The answer is "Yes". Creating and maintaining a blog is a good way to increase your online presence, make more people aware of your products and services, express opinions and share information, as well as being a good way to get feedback from customers and prospects. Here are some of the reasons why you should have a blog, perhaps even before you have a regular static website. 1. You can do just about everything with a (Wordpress*) blog that you can do with a static website. 2. Setting up a blog is much easier than creating a website. Yes, it is true there is some basic programming involved. But if you get a professional "blog setter-upper" to do it for you it will cost much less than building a decent looking website. 3. Design is very flexible. There are hundreds of free "themes" that determine how it will look. And as long as you don't modify the theme too much you can switch themes on the fly in about 15 seconds for a completely new look. 4. Blogs are generally more search engine friendly because typical blog structure forces you to create content that is optimized the way the search engines like it. 5. The search engines (usually) crawl blogs more often than static websites, because blogs change more often. As new content is introduced with new product announcements or new information, those changes will get picked up more quickly by the search engines. 6. Blogs are perfect for publishing "news and views". This means you can add new content more often, and you can cover a wider range of topics than might be covered in a normal static website. 7. Blogs are interactive which makes them great for getting reader opinion, comment, and questions. If you want to interact with your customers and prospects a blog is a good way to do it. 8. Blogs can be integrated with social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Squidoo, Hub Pages, Twitter, and many others. This is usually done by simply loading in the RSS feed that the blog automatically creates. I'm sure there are many other reasons why you should have a blog if you're involve in online business or communication. Leave a comment with your suggestions... (*Yes, I know, this is not a Wordpress blog. It is powered by b2Evolution. That's because I've had it for a couple of years, it works, gets a bit of traffic, and it would be too much hassle to change it over. There's not much doubt that Wordpress is a more versatile and certainly more popular platform, and the one I recommend to clients.) New AV Electronics Blog We just created a new blog called Audio Video Electronics featuring videos and articles about audio video equipment. Marketing to Real Estate Agents? Yes, I know this isn't a good time to be marketing to Real Estate agents (at least in the U.S.), but the truth is, the old saying "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" applies more now than ever. In other words, Real Estate will continue to sell, and there will be aggressive agents who take advantage of the current slump. There will also be a large drop off in marginally successful agents, along with an influx of new agents in the next 18 months or so as the market adjusts itself. Anyway, if you're interested in reaching this niche (Real Estate Agents), or if you have a decent email list of active agents, contact us. We're working on a couple of products tailored to this market and we want to find JV partners with a similar interest. Even if you don't currently have a list, but are interested in developing one, as well as signing up for a very lucrative affiliate program, leave a comment on this post, or contact us here: |
TradeShow-Display-Experts.com - where you can find low cost trade show displays, popup displays, retractable displays, banner stands, and beautiful, long-lasting trade show graphics. How to Qualify For 90% Plus Commercial FinancingMay 18, 2006 - Linknet Finance News May 18, 2006 - from Real Estate Articles Broadcast Internet radio to FM radios in home or office. Quality real estate investing course - Make money. Commercial Mortgage Loans - Avoiding commercial mortgage issues Steel Buildings - Steel buildings, Retail, prefab, Steel warehouses How to Qualify For 90% Plus Commercial FinancingThere are three important questions that you must understand and answer correctly in order to achieve 90% plus commercial financing! Where to go to locate it? What type of project will qualify? And last, how to negotiate for it? To start, you must understand the lender's mindset. If you ask commercial lenders what would be their preferred loan type and the reason why, you will hear similar answers -- Commercial lenders prefer minimum risk projects with certain financial returns. In other words, most lenders prefer to finance Income Producing Commercial Properties, not start ups, rehabs, construction projects, distressed properties, or empty buildings. Lenders prefer to base their loan assumptions on the last two year's Net Operating Income statements or (NOI). Income Producing Commercial Real Estate not only reduces risk to the lender, but it also allows the borrower to qualify purchasing the commercial real estate by using the property's current cash flow, the remaining length of the leases and the tenant's credit. You must understand this point -- strong cash flow properties can be leveraged to get higher LTV's. Let us now address where you can locate this type of financing: The Internet and the Information Age has changed the way the commercial financing business is being conducted. In today's marketplace, the Internet has become the most cost effective method to compare commercial lenders! Most non-bank lenders will typically offer you non-conforming financing, because they do not intend to sell the loans. Non-conventional lenders are also far more flexible in structuring terms, rates and options than most banks or other conventional lenders. If you could compare multiple Non-Conventional lender's loan offers, from one online loan submission, would this be valuable to you? We offer our clients a pre-underwritten loan package that will be submitted to numerous Direct Non-Conventional lenders. Lenders prefer the pre-underwritten loan submissions since there is little else for them to do but -- MAKE AN OFFER TO FINANCE! Now this is when the fun starts! Strong cash flow real estate projects will result in many offers to fund. Remember this point; an offer remains an offer, until it is accepted. You as the borrower can now negotiate with the lenders from a position of strength. Since you already have multiple offers, your mindset should be that all terms offered are subject to negotiation! For additional information, go to www.amoneybroker.com. Steven Battle, Commercial Financing Specialist with Amoneybroker.com Copyright (c) 2005 AMONEYBROKER.COM All Rights reserved
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