How Blogging Attracts New Clients
and Fuels Your Internet Marketing

Your blog is the center of your internet marketing strategy. It is both a magnet and the fuel for all kinds of fantastic and incredibly important pieces of achieving your goal to get more clients or more customers. The blog allows you to do so many things that are important to your internet marketing strategy, and any Internet Marketing Consultant would be completely remiss if they did not recomend that it be near the center of any strategy you adopt. Look at what having a blog will do for you and your business.

Today your Internet Marketing Consultant is here to help you understand the important role your website plays in how you get more clients as well as how to maximize its ability to do so.

• List four major characteristics of a good website for Internet marketing.
• Give at least one reason why each one is important.

If you're looking for an Internet Marketing Consultant to help guide you through the maze of internet marketing or you're just looking for good solid wisdom on using your website to get more clients, then congratulations, you are in the right place! This is the begining of a series that will look piece by piece at 11 building blocks for getting more clients. Today we will start by listing them for you and talking about a succesful campaign. 

This last week will go down in history for all the people that love football, the American kind. This was the week when the replacement refs made their last mistake in NFL football by causing the Green Bay Packers to lose. All because they missed a call on the final play and, in many peoples mind, made the wrong call on whether the final catch was a touchdown or an interception. America has been in an outrage. http://bit.ly/V10qDE (cnn blog article) Even President Obama was compelled to comment. Just look at the comments on this article. But as of today on CNN http://bit.ly/QrhstL it has finally been reported that the replacement refs have been axed and we, the fans, are so relieved. All of us are thrilled and my favorite parts were the over 60,000 calls made to the commissioners office this week and the fact that Vegas actually refunded money to people because the game was so clearly screwed up. I wonder how much pull Vegas has? Hmmmmm.

So how do NFL replacement refs and internet marketing for small businesses relate to each other?

Sometimes it is so hard to write a blog. You get writers block. You don’t know what to write or if any of your thoughts are any good. One moment you have an idea that you think is amazing and the next you think to yourself, no one will care about this. And then there’s the word count. How many words do you write? Oh that’s right, between 350 and 500 or was it 500 to 750? Today I like 350 to 500. Now what should I write about? Well my focus is on marketing, advertising and consulting. So let’s talk about Advertising. In fact lets talk about measuring advertising.

Perspective can make all the difference in the world between a small business surviving and not surviving. Perspective is huge. It even has a significant impact on how well we solve the smaller challenges of day to day life. So what is perspective? How do we better understand it? How can we change it and how do we use it to make our small businesses more successful? Well, consider something that happens thousands of times an hour all over the world - landing a plane.

I’m going to start subscribing to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday paper and I don’t ever read the newspaper, any newspaper!

When I’ve subscribed to the newspaper before, any newspaper, it eventually ends up going from the driveway to the recycle pile in our house within a week or two. It drives my wife crazy! Like I said, I don’t read the newspaper. I’m more like a subscriber than a reader. It’s not even that I have anything against newspapers in general, except they are super duper expensive to advertise in for what you usually get. The worst paper in the Country to advertise in is “The” paper in Indianapolis. They are the most expensive I have ever seen, but I digress.

Bob Sprague has a new blog on Leadership called Personal Clarity, and it’s going to be worth the read. (http://www.personalclarity.me) Bob is one of those guys I know that teaches about Leadership and truly lives it out. I value his insight. When I was 19 years old he influenced how I thought about Leadership and helped me pursue my journey towards being a better leader. For the last 25 years Bob has served me as a mentor, good friend, comrade in arms, and fellow parent (which is an amazing breeding ground of leadership lessons). Bob knows leadership well. It’s kind of like his pet project only it’s been during his entire adult life so far and maybe longer. Now that I think about it, Bob might have been born with a Leadership book at his side. I wonder if that version had pictures, hmmmmm?

Do you want to be found in Google?  Do you want to reap the benefits of consistently being found in Google and not losing your ranking? Then think about this.

I wanted to pass this video along. I got a big laugh out of it because my family watches NCIS LA on TV. This type of media is also good for having fun and getting people to like your Company. Remember, if you really want to rock your marketing then you need to do stuff that will make people like you. People buy from people and companies they like.