Blogging Sells Products or Services

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Blogging is still important if you want to sell products or services. You can connect with your audience and use your blog to get more traffic. Who wants more traffic for their online sales? Everyone, right? If you are struggling to drive traffic, I suggest blogging consistently. A blog becomes a strategy for you to grow your traffic. Customers love reading blog entries that feature them too!

Blogging grows traffic and increases sales

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Research your preferred reader. This is the customer who will purchase your product or service.

Blogging grows traffic. It takes time. It does not happen quickly. Blogging has a long lifespan. Blogging is content that keeps working for you for years. Know who you want to attract with your blog. Decide who your ideal customer is. This makes it easier to know what to write about. The reader of your blog should ideally be the same person that may want to purchase your product or service. Take some time to think about your target audience and consider who your customer is. Write for this person. What books are they reading? Think and try to imagine who your customers are.

Blogging builds trust with readers encouraging sales

Blogging builds trust with readers. Readers hopefully turn into buyers or know someone who needs what you are selling! Customers want to know who you are. Customers like reading about events you are attending. I believe trust is the new digital currency on the web. Gaining trust will increase your subscribers to your mailing list. Mailing lists are a valuable tool.

Blog content attracts customers

Blog content attracts customers. When you create a blog post, you create more keywords and more opportunities to attract customers. If you are a Pinterest user, you can take advantage of blog content. Pinterest uses the same keywords. Pinterest allows you to link beautiful pictures to your blog content and drive people to your site.

Adding blog posts will give you more people coming from Pinterest. Blog content gives your audiences something to share on Facebook. Make your content interesting enough to share. The Pinterest platform is all about sharing pretty images. Sharing blog content allows customers to find you. Don’t forget to use links in your blog posts. This makes your blog post valuable. Link to a product or service. Send your readers where you want them to go. Don’t waste your time with a dead end blog post.

Blogging builds trust between you and your customers

You want to attract customers who will purchase your products or services. You need to use the right kind of blog content. Attracting your peers in the industry will only lead to frustration. They are not your customers. They are your competitors. I am always looking for new marketing strategies I can use. Blogging is a marketing tool. A blog allows you to repurpose content and images. You can stay relevant on social media feeds.

Blogs drive sales by attracting new customers. Blogging builds trust between you and your customers. Trust is important. If you want more traffic and customers, blogging can help. Blogs help deepen connections between you and your customers. Your blog content will help your customers overcome objections. This will increase sales. Blogs build up excitement for upcoming events. Posting attracts new customers.

Blogging is easy to set up

Blogging is easy to set up. Social media is a great starting point for your blog.

Blogging is easy to set up and install. All you need is a domain to get started. You take a few minutes and pick out a theme. Pick a theme you like and just get blogging. Themes can be changed. Themes are simple to change. You are not married to your theme.

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Blogging sells products and services.

Social media is a great starting point for your blog. Social media posts are written to encourage engagement with your audiences. It only takes a few minutes to turn your social media type posts into blog posts. Look for social media posts that people responded to and gave a lot of likes. Use these images and post them to your blog. Remember to give your images keyword-rich names. What words would someone type if they were searching for the product or service? These word-names make blog your images more SEO-friendly.

Conclusion

Blogs allow your readers to search for content. You own your blog. You do not own your social media platform. I spend a lot of time putting images on Instagram. Instagram might close its doors tomorrow. What will happen to all of the content? With a blog, you can keep the content and update it. You can delete it. You can repurpose the content and the images any way you like.

If you have a website, you are ready to start blogging. Blogs can be moved to other domains if you choose to change your website to a new location. So, just get started blogging. Blog consistently, and your sales will increase. Blogging will help you sell your product or service, I promise. Don’t think of yourself as a blogger. Think of yourself as a business to help promote your products or services. Blogging will help sell your products or services.

About Pamela Kay

Hello. My name is Pamela Kay. I love lifestyle inspired photography. I am currently based in Alexandria, Virginia, serving the Washington DC area as well as Dallas and Oklahoma. (Texan here!!!). Yes, I travel.

Pamela Kay
Pamela Kay, lifestyle photographer serving Dallas, Oklahoma and the Washington DC area

I enjoy helping corporate executives, busy entrepreneurs, and small business owners with images for marketing and social platforms.

I offer personal consulting to busy boss ladies who want help setting up their website or blog.

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