Friday, November 21, 2008

How Can a Blog Help My Business?

Why blog? Here are some concrete befefits that a blog might provide for a business:
  • Organic search engine performance
  • Seed press and media coverage
  • Engage in a 2-way dialogue with customers
  • Communicate your business values and culture
  • Humanize and personalize your business - people buy from poeple
  • Demonstrate progress and motion - ever go to an e-site that looks orphaned?
  • Guide readers toward a desired action
  • Show videos and images
  • Manage your Public Relations
According to comScore, Blogs represent 34% of the total internet audience. Check out these demographic figures from eMarketer.com. Note that households with $75,000+ make up the largest segment of visitors to blog sites. Blogs are absolutely not just for teens and tweens anymore.

1 comment:

  1. Nice information to tell me what segment of my customers I should target my blog writing style to. Any chance there's newer figures like this available? Things could have changed a bit since 2006.

    Thanks,
    Kirk

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