Build The Core: The 3 i’s of Blogging

February 5, 2009 at 9:31 pm | Posted in Blogging, Getting Started, Marketing, Social Media | 2 Comments
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What is the centre of your social media strategy?

One of the most important elements of any marketing strategy is the core – so where are you ultimately driving your audience? Most people would suggest that their website is positioned at the core. This is a solid plan – but you need to give people a reason to come back.

Most websites are static – unchanging. They provide basic information, contact info… but what would keep people coming back? How can you get your market engaged? What is in it for them?

  1. Insight – leverage your opinion and expertise, tell them what you think about things
  2. Information – share information that is important to you with your market, give them links to other smart people and ideas
  3. Ideas – tell them yours, and help other people to come up with their own

By integrating your website into a blog (in whole or in part), you give your market a reason to come back. By providing insight, information and ideas, you give people a reason to return.  This is engagement marketing.

The best and easiest way to do that is with a blog. So over to you… if you are not blogging – why not?

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  1. Nice stuff here Carson, I am new and not enough time to read further, but what I read so far was informative.

    thanks,
    Andy

    Comment by signgraphics— February 6, 2009 #

  2. Nothing wrong with being new Andy, keep in touch…

    Carson

    Comment by Carson McKee— February 6, 2009 #


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