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How Would a Blog Help Your Cause?
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Do you have a blog yet? Or are you considering one? You might consider having a blog that has multiple writers. Stories of happenings, people, events told in a personal style can be effective in a blog. Tips and hints aimed at your target audience may be another idea.
Your blog can be linked to your website - and you can integrate your blog with your Facebook page, your twitter account, and other social networks. Once you have the concept that you want to write about be sure to create links to your website for more information. This gives additional links TO your website.
Register your blog with appropriate blog directories, participate on other people's blogs by commenting and asking questions and encourage your readers to also comment.
How to increase traffic on your blog
This will be one of the modules in the upcoming e-course.
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There are many opportunities now to use the Internet to broaden your reach, build awareness of your mission, provide information and build relationships through using online social networks. Initially you may find it confusing or not be clear about how different social networks can be useful to you. However the examples of established organizations and businesses using these to generate income and establish their expertise is a well established fact. If you are not already doing so - start out with these 2 social networks.
Facebook
Facebook has really developed into a business and networking tool. Now it has a demographic where people of all ages are
using it and businesses and organizations are learning how to use this
venue as a way to connect with people of similar interests, provide
information, network, put on events and build relationships.
Click here for more information on using Facebook
LinkedIN
LinkedIN is a professional online social network.
The core of it is your own professional page. However if you are a
manager of a nonprofit, you may be wondering how this can be useful to
you and to your nonprofit. The following are some of the benefits that
LinkedIN will give you and your nonprofit or NGO.
Once you have your own profile setup you can advance to these activities
Click here for details on using LinkedIN
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Online Articles to Build A Following
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Articles are an excellent addition to your marketing mix.
They provide information to people that are searching on the
Internet for a solution to their problems and answer to their questions.
From your point of view - articles have a lot of positives:
- You build your credibility with a wide base of people interested in your topic
- Articles have a very long "life" on the Internet. You will get
people following up on links in an article years after you have written
it.
- There are multiple places that you can submit your articles at little or no cost.
- The time invested in writing an article is time well spent. You
can also collaborate with people who specialize in writing high quality
articles for you.
- Links on the article or in your bio / resource box lead people to
your website, blog or specific programs and services - these provide
Inbound Links that are high quality links to your website and improve
your search engine placement
For details on using "Ezine Articles" please click on this link
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