When you consider blogging as a business, you have to be think it as a real world business. Then only, you will be productive however i am not sure about your attitude. Basically, the following are the few more strategies you have to follow so that you could build a successful blog especially for the long term.

Employ Blog Business Strategy.

As i mentioned earlier, consider you blogging as a real world business. When it comes to business administration, you have to employ a proven strategy. That’s why i always advice: follow the successful strategy from others. This way, you don’t need to perform “from the scratch experiments” and you could directly move towards the success path.

First, have an action plan for your blogging business. Plan everything from content generation, monetization, marketing and traffic generation. Stick to your plan. To help you further, read this Kelly Watson’s approach of blogging business plan which tells you the basic ingredients of a simple blogging plan.

At the same time, go beyond blogging. Don’t just stick to content generation, identify the ways to help the audience in your market. Identify their problems and give better solutions to your audience. This is the basic rule of success in business. Also, work to create your own product related to your blog so that you could easily promote from your blog + it shows that you are an expert in the industry.

Basically, plan everything and important: follow the plan.

Utilize Social Media Tools.

Frankly, I am not a social media expert. However, i started making my presence in social media tools like Twitter and Facebook. As a first step, I started with Twitter and now having a good number of followers. I am feeling it useful especially in bringing back people to my blog, whenever i publish a blog post. Also, it helps to get networked with like minded people which readily helps in many ways, right from learning to sharing the thoughts.

And also, i am into Facebook and Google Plus. Slowly, i will make a strong presence there too and hold the people close to this blog.

• Follow Mr.Ven’s Twitter page
• Give me a Like on Facebook Fan Page

To help yourself in building a strong social media presence, go through the below resources:

• Driving Traffic with Twitter
• Using Facebook To Drive Traffic
• How Businesses Can Make the Most of Google Plus
• 9 Ways to Use Social Networking for Blog Promotion

Apart from the above resources, have a look on this Hubspot’s free webinar on Science of Social Media Marketing which has much more useful information.

As a tool, it helps you to keep the visitors close to your blog for the long term.

Keep Hold of Visitors In Your List.

List building is one of the powerful marketing tool for any online based business. This actually helps you a lot in blogging by holding each and every visitor coming to your blog. The advantage is that, you could catch the email ids of interested visitors and ping them back with more related information, as they like.

Successful Internet marketers are doing this in great extent by setting up a squeeze page (a single page to share an ebook/resource and getting back users email id). This way, you could collect the list of peoples who are related to the topic/blog and when you send related updates they will come back in your way. You could utilize this targeted list of promote products especially towards quickly making money. Further, as long as they are active in the subscription, you could ping them anytime with more useful stuffs which helps both the readers as well as your business.

If you are already using wordpress, there are many free plugins available to setup popup windows which asks visitors to get into your list.

• Wp Super Pop up (free) and Wp Subscribers (worth for money !) are few of the best plugins you could simply integrate to your blog which helps you to capture email ids of visitors coming to your blog.

2 ways to use email lists…

• Send periodic blog updates to the subscribers – Advantage: they will come back to your blog.
• Suggest useful products (your own/affiliate) related to your blog topic – Advantage: they will buy from your link.

More useful resources on List building…

• 4 Steps To Build An Email List from Mr.Ven
• 12 Ways to Build Your E-mail List from wilson web
• 4 Reasons Why Your Online Business Needs an Email List from Mitch

Hope all these information helps you in building a successful blog for the long term. Thanks for reading.

I will continue this series with the upcoming article which explains, how to rank well in search engines naturally ?

Stay tuned….

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• Only requirement, you should have a Twitter account with huge number of followers.

The number of quality followers that you have in your Twitter account will help to create more exposure to your tweet.

• For Example: if you are having 10K followers in your Twitter account and a single Tweet that you write, reaches 10K people. In turn, if 100 people are re-tweeting your message then it has the chance to reach even more audience multiplied by x100 many times !

That’s called “Viral Marketing”. Viral marketing is the power way of promoting a link or message in Internet which spreads by itself. Just you have to kick start, it goes every where itself and reaches wider audience automatically. Coming back to the topic, the number of Twitter followers and the virality of your tweet directly benefits the income from Twitter.

If you are Twitter addict then for sure these videos will help you in knowing the methods of making money from Twitter !

How To Make Money With Twitter ?

Top 3 Ways To Make Money From Twitter

How To Make Money On Twitter(John Marshall Shows the basics) ?

How to Make Money with Clickbank using Twitter?

Will Twitter Ever Make Money? CEO Evan Williams Responds

How To SERIOUSLY Make Money With Twitter & ‘Target Tweeting’

Make Money On Twitter. Sponsored Tweets

Make Money With Amazon and Twitter

Hope these videos will help you to understand at least how do you utilize Twitter for making little income. If you don’t have time, bookmark this page (Press Ctrl+D) and see all these videos whenever you have enough time.

Few More Articles To Read:

• Twitter Monetization
• Make Money on Twitter
• How Do I Make Money with Twitter?

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• videozr making money

Aim To Increase Followers.

For growing blogs, its definitely a tough job to get more twitter followers. Because many people will follow, only if you have many followers or simply saying, your twitter account should look matured. For beginners, many people don’t believe in following you (because your account is not matured). This was the case i realized when i have less than 200 followers.

Finally, i took a resolution and aimed to get 500 followers within a month. To frankly tell, i spend only 10 minutes per day. Even i don’t find much time for writing a blog post, for me its tough to spend time. So i decided to spend 10 minutes per day for Twitter, only to increase my followers.

How I Increased Followers ?

I used a tool (don’t worry i am not selling any products) which helped to find more followers. More interestingly, i am able to find more followers who are related to my niche. The end result, i gained targeted followers who are interested in my topic. That’s Buzzom, an online tool which helps you to organize/manage your twitter account. I felt, its very simple to operate buzzom and you could simply login with your existing Twitter account (you don’t need to register).

It has the option to Follow your followers, Grow your followers, Reciprocate follow and much more. I am more interested with Growing followers.

What I did ?

As mentioned, i spent only 10 minutes per day by doing the following:

• Click the Grow button.
• Buzzom lists the followers who are related to your niche/market.
• Manually select followers who have good profile.
• Follow them.
• Repeat the steps…

So every day, i followed many people (say 20-100+) and i found at least 50% of them are following back. Every day i gained followers and once in a week, i will clean my list (i will delete those who are not following me). So in a month time, i increased my twitter followers from 200 to 600+ by just spending 10 minutes per day.

Proof On Twitter Followers.

To make this post valid/true, i have shared the proof which shows, how the number of twitter followers had grown in a month ? From the day, i started doing this, you could see spikes in number of followers. If you see the graph, on 10th of July i have gained +123 followers (in one day itself).

Proof: Increase in Twitter Followers

I am planning to repeat these step again. Now I am aiming to increase my Twitter followers by 1000+ within a month (i will try to spend more than 10 minutes per day). Also, i found there are sites which sells twitter followers but i don’t believe in them and i don’t want to spend money for this too.

• Interestingly, the traffic coming from Twitter had increased to this blog when compared to last month.
• And more interesting, Twitter traffic spends more time on this blog, (avg: 4+ minutes more than Search traffic) that means Quality traffic.

What Next ? Follow Me On Twitter ! and Subscribe to my RSS to get more experimental tips in future.

• NOTE: Recently, Buzzom stopped Twitter service and now the alternative is Twellow.

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Apart from the long term methods to get more blog traffic using search engines, your new blog shall drive visitors from social tools also. Lets see those methods in simple steps.

Social Tools To Use.

There are many social tools available in the market. But the most utilized ones are Twitter and Facebook. Facebook is growing very fast, see this statistics which says there are 400 million active users as of now. At the same time, Twitter had a great growth in the past and now there are slowness in Twitter growth.

But it is true that, Facebook and Twitter are having the major population of social network users. As a blogger, we should not avoid these 2 tools. If you don’t have an account, Sign up for Twitter here and for Facebook here.

Networking To Get Blog Traffic.

Blogging is not only sharing information, its about networking too. Networking with similar people. And its one of the important factor to create visibility to your new blog. Its tough to get networked with other bloggers or peoples who are in your industry. But with Twitter, Facebook you could easily build that network.

• What you have to do is grow the number of your followers/fans and interact with them. This creates an opportunity to link with many like minded people.
• In actual, your blog gets around a network which is more targeted. You could pull your blog visitors to follow you and hence you get socially networked with them.
• The advantage is that you will be sharing your own articles with all your followers and this gets more traffic to your blog. Also, you could share other articles in Internet too and this way, interaction, relationship with your network builds.
• Not only sharing, you could ask questions or clear doubts for others in your network.
• Being active with social networking tools helps you to grow your blog network consistently.

Tips To Grow Your Social Network.

Lets see few simpler yet powerful tips to grow the size of your social network which inturn helps to get more traffic to your blog.

• Use tools to enlarge your account. Recently, i tried Buzzom for Twitter which helps me to instantly Increase the Twitter followers from 200 to 600+ with a month. Looks, it has Facebook support too.
• Manually, search keywords in Twitter search and Facebook Search,  find people who are similar to your industry and connect with them. Do this every day and over a period of time, you networks will be big.
• Other option, buy the network. There are many social network services to instantly buy the network for money. But i am not sure how far you will get true/active followers.
• Be active with these tools. Interact with people.
• Ask questions, clear doubts.
• Share only useful information to others.
• Learn how to keep good social media relation ?
• Follow Me on Twitter.

Final words, social tools are helping blogs to get more targeted traffic provided you built the right network. It actually takes time to grow your network and to see the results. At any cost, don’t avoid social tools for getting traffic to your blog.

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The interesting feature provided by Twitter is that you could send and receive Tweets from your mobile phones. Tweets are by SMS. So if you want to send a tweet then you have to send an SMS formatted based on the Twitter Text Commands.

In general, Twitter works with the mobile service provider to enable this feature. Check this Twitter Mobile support page to know the list of supported countries and the list of supported service providers. Whenever you are away from your PC, you could send tweets through mobile phones. SMS Charges are applicable as per the rates fixed by your provider and no charge for receiving tweets.

To frankly say, today only i came to know this feature from Twitter’s blog. So i am adding few more points in this post on how to better utilize Twitters SMS feature for your business.

(only for those who care about their MOBILE BILL…)

• First of all, for every tweet you send, it will be charged per SMS rate. So if you have free SMS’s available then you use this feature.

• Use SMS tweeting only in case of urgency. Say for example, if one of your customer needs your reply immediately then use it. Try to avoid using SMS tweeting feature as much as possible to reduce the extra cost to your mobile bill.

• Use SMS tweeting feature to post a single question. For example, on a day you may want to just ask a question to your followers then you could use this feature. You will get all the replies to your mobile (no charge for incoming tweets) to read. On that case, you don’t need to reply them.

Also, learn the Twitter Text Commands here or just take a print out for instant future reference !  Here is the news from Twitter.

Also, if you don’t know how to configure Twitter to use with your mobile phone then check out this helpful video.

Generally, whenever a tweet is made the byline holds the user name. For business accounts, there may be multiple persons operating a single Twitter account. Say, for example a business firm may do customer support through Twitter and they have multiple persons working on the support team. In that scenario, multiple users are added as “Contributors” to a single account. Every individual has the right to tweet using one single account. Also, the byline contains the username of the Contributor which tells the exact name of the one who tweets that message. For sure this kind of feature may help business firms who are willing to operate their twitter account with multiple resources.

For example, if the @bizmanager calls @bizsupport1 to make a Tweet then at the bottom of the tweet message (byline) will have the username as @bizsupport1 instead of @bizmanager. That’s more of adding personal to your business support right ?

The following is the note mentioned on this blog post – feature test with businesses,

The feature we are beta testing is called ‘Contributors’ – it enables users to engage in more authentic conversations with businesses by allowing those organizations to manage multiple contributors to their account.

Initially, this feature will be released to their Ecosystem partners & business user. Based on the feedback and after doing additional improvements (if any) they will launch this feature to every business users.

Upon utilizing the benefits, you could easily cut down your marketing cost to the half amount. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and of course blogging are the powerful marketing tools for your business promotion.

View of Social Media

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The major benefit of social media for business is its free. And it is really simple to setup a social media presence for your business and to build up a brand online. This article shows some of the major benefits of using social media for your business online.

Find New Customer.

Finding out new customers for your business is the incredible phase through out the business life. Social media gives that flexibility to find out new customers. It gives that exposure to a wider audience and helps you to go closer with customers. Because you could do a profile search for new customers who are looking for a service or a product related to your business. And that gives you the targeted customer who converts your products into money. The best example could be the twitter search.

Build Your Business Brand.

Branding is the sole energy of your business because that comes first in front of your visitors. The ultimate goal  is to build a better branding with social media for your business should be . Your social media profile should stand out when compared to the competitors and there you must show your professional touch. Because you are facing the real customers here. Your brand should remind in the visitors mind forever.

Using Blog For Business Promotion.

Blogs are the marketing tool that are easy to develop and build an exposure to your business online. You could promote your business using blogs. It helps your business to get aligned with the customers. It helps to easily identify, what your visitors or customers are thinking about your business and its service. You could add a personal touch to your business inheriting the benefits of blogging. You should realize the importance of using blogs for business promotion ?

Develop Your Business Network.

Social media helps to builds a network around your business. It is more important to build a targeted network. Though e-mail marketing is considered as the best method of networking, with the effect of web 2.0, now social media is the top strategy for business networking. A targeted network always supports your business provided you are giving out quality service or products.  There is a huge list of social networking sites but maintaining your quality is must to attain the real networking benefits. Without quality none of your customers never stays with your business.

Statistics or Tracking Becomes Easy.

With social media enforced, you could easily track the complete statistics. You could track down the following factors.

• The source of incoming traffic.
• Number of RSS subscribers and followers.
• The tracebacks and links pointing to your business blogs.
• Conversation rate from the social media traffic.
• Of course, rate of increase in product sale and profits.

You Should Know More

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Some more benefits of using social media for your business.

• The major advantage is that you could always get linked & mingled with your targeted audience.
• It helps to easily ping your customers anytime and that implements a stay tuned approach with the customers.
• It drives more targeted traffic, when the right messages are broadcasted to the public. You should not loose the opportunity to utilize the traffic from social media sites.
• It helps you to unicast as well as broadcast the messages. That means you could group your customers into smaller units and targeted them based on the requirements.
• Using social media you could show your expertness to the public. You could prove that you are the leader in your business domain. And that helps to stand out from the competition crowd.
• Social media feed you with new information and helps you to learn new things. Don’t forget to share what you have learned ? Because that shows you are active in your business.
• Of course, it gives you the fun of communication and interaction with customers. Hence more friendly to the customers with your business.
• Finally, it takes your business to the next level of growth.

Though there are tonnes of advantages available with social media, it all depends on how the right steps are applied ? and for sure that needs patience to achieve. You have to understand, experiment and inherit the benefits of social media for your long term business growth.

Twitter has the potential to socially take your online business to next level of growth. In reality, every business owner should use Twitter as a marketing platform. It helps to build the stronger network in turn to achieve great success. With the power of 140 characters, promoting the business is simple and Free of Cost. So lets find out the realities in using twitter especially for your business growth.

Linking Targeted Population or Customer.

Twitter helps you to get linked with the targeted group and individuals. You should be more careful in selecting your group. You should focus towards building the targeted group. At one point of time this will become the source of customers for your business. Because targeted visitors are more important for the growth of business.

The Stay Tuned Approach.

Twitter gives the flexibility in utilizing your marketing effort in terms of time. You could stay tuned with your end customer, or your the visitors to your business or even with colleague, your friend. It helps to broadcast any news or information instantly to your group. Saves lot of time.

Traffic Generator.

Twitter drives more traffic through the links that you are sending in your twit message. You should take the care, to address the right stuffs that your group is expecting. Because it is not like you could publish anything through twitter. It is believed that the traffic from twitter is not converting much for your business. Better to initiate a call-to-action through twitter that drives the targeted traffic. Have filtering mechanism to take care what you are publishing to the group.

Unicasting Drives Better.

You should not always broadcast the message to all. Have the filtering always and take care to whom you are publishing the message. Pushing to selected people makes sense. Because here you are targeting to the right destination. This is a good example of effective communication.

Utilize Twitter Search Effectively.

It is simple to find more customers through the twitter search. Be the best in using the search terms i.e., the right keywords to filter the people. Focus towards the related and relevant topic or domain work outs best. That really builds the business network in the right shape. Also, how you are utilizing the twitter search apps matters here.

Show Your Domain Expertness.

Use twitter to show the world that you are the leader, you are the expert. You could rule the domain, by making valuable and matured comments over twitter. Always focus towards solving the problem. Provide the solution to the public. Gives solution proves that you are the domain expert. Expertness helps you to stand out from the competition crowd.

You should realize the importance of Twitter to take your business to the next level growth.

Make It Fun.

Communicating through twitter is fun. This is an ongoing activity. You could promote your business even as a hobby. Fun gives you the energy to achieve or gives fresh thinking. So feel the fun with twitter.

Learn and Learn Even More.

Use twitter as a Wiki. You could read over related topics and that helps to grow you knowledge. I would say, twitter is a open book. So read more and learn new things. At the same time, don’t forget to share the information that you learnt. Be connected with the twitter blog and twitter wiki.

Ask For Helping Hands.

Whenever you are struck with something don’t hesitate to find the solution with twitter. You could ask for help. Because this helps to establish the connections with other experts. This really strengthens your business and its growth. So don’t hesitate.

Have Twitting Schedule.

Make plan for utilizing the twitter. Include this plan along with your marketing and business plans. Stick to the plan and this makes you to work good and to utilize the real power of twitter as a social platform.

Speak Your Business Aloud.

You should make the noise with twitter. That means, look to attract the public. Some of the ways to attract are asking questions, making fun, giving solutions. Even you could conduct a course on your domain to cover the public.

So finally, twitter the most wonderful and powerful marketing medium for your online business. It all depends on how well you are utilizing the twitter.

Go along with twitter, build your network and revolve the potential growth of your online business.

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Twitter, a social networking and microblogging platform that provides a way to build a network of public around you. The amazing thing is that you are provided with only 140 characters to buzz your network or followers at a time. Using Twitter, could send a 140 character message to your followers and public. But is it possible to convey something with this limit ?

Yes, Twitter is short and sweet. It gives the flexibility to have conversation with any one including your customers or public instantly, that adds real value to your online business. I would say, Twitter is a perfect business tool.

How ?

Twitter helps you to promote your online business in lot of ways and in all directions.

Identify Your Business Customers.

Twitter helps to understand and identify your customers, it helps to understand what the customers are thinking about your online business. You could easily monitor your followers and learn the public opinions. As Twitter is a dynamic platform, it makes you to quickly identify the needs of your customers. For an e-commerce or product based business, Twitter plays a major role in understanding the problems faced by customers. This helps to quickly react to the problems and hence improves the customer satisfaction.

Most of the service oriented companies are now-a-days serving their customer needs and complaints through Twitter. Its really a dynamic medium to bring the public under your own network.

Explore Your Brand To Public.

Branding is really required for making a successful online business. Twitter as a platform helps to broadcast your business brand to the public. Reaching the public is more important than building a brand. Twitter provides the most simplest and best solution to explore your brand. Make your profile cool with your brand name and log embedded. This really gives your brand feel to every visitor. Branding builds the customer confidence and forms a trusted network of peoples around your business.

Twitter helps to quickly market your brand to the market and bring you in front of others faster. Hence I would say, Twitter is a powerful marketing tool for your business.

Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Website.

Twitter brings the targeted traffic for your website. Every business running online requires bunch of traffic. I would say, generating traffic is simple but the toughest part is generating targeted traffic for your business. Twitter feeds your the targeted traffic. You must build your network accordingly, connected to related peoples and keep them in your network always. This helps to bring in the targeted traffic at any time. It is true that Twitter builds valuable links to your website.

Statistics says that Twitters traffic is considerably targeted when compared to the search engine traffic.

Adds A Personal Touch.

Twitter gives a personal touch in everything that you are doing via Twitter.

• You are showing your own presence to your network and the public.
• You are showing your own style.
• You are showing your own culture.

This brings you before everyone that you follow and lays a strong basement for you to become an expert in your domain. You will become popular if you are actively addressing the problems with solutions and helping others related to your niche market. This also gives a personal life to your online business.

Mixing up a personal touch makes a good feel for others to follow you on Twitter. Sure chances are more for everyone to feel your personality.

Twitter The Perfect Tool.

Now I could say, Twitter is a perfect business tool.

• It helps to market your business,
• helps to serve your customers,
• helps to drive traffic,
• helps to build your business brand.

More over, Twitter is a broadcast medium for your online presence with power of 140 characters.

So don;t wait for anything, if you have not joined Twitter yet then join today. Twitter is really important for your online business as well as personal growth.

Come on, now its time to Follow Me On Twitter.