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At Web-JIVE, we listen to our customers requests, and two requests have been consistent, a newsletter and blogging services. Well, we listened, we developed and now we're announcing them!

Web-JIVE Does Blogging!

Do you want to rank well in the search engine result pages? Let Web-JIVE create a professional, customized web blog that reflects the branding for your business while keeping your online marketing current, relevant, and searchable!
 
Blogs are one  great way to get Google to index your site more frequently, which in turn helps your organic rankings. We can make sure a blog is added to your website every month, week, or more often if you require. We will set up your blog (if you don't have one already), create content (usually 250 plus words) and publish it to the web.

Blogging on your website is a great way to add fresh content while keeping viewers engaged in your business.  Web-JIVE customers are provided with several choices they can use as their blogging tool.  Give us a call today to discuss your options and ability to start blogging on your site!

Here are a few good tips to consider when blogging on your site.

Make your blog posts interesting and thought provoking.  Be unique.  What makes your blog stand out? Why should people read your blog rather than the others in your niche? People can read more than one blog, but being original is the best way to stand out in someone's memory. This means writing original content, having an original focus (possibly a well-known niche, but with a twist?), and giving your readers something to be interested in every time you post.

One of the biggest secrets to success on Twitter is sharing.  As many Twitter experts say: You are what you share.   People use Twitter (www.twitter.com) for many different reasons.  But for the purposes of this blog, we will focus on engaging with the business community. Please note that 'engaging with' should not be mistaken for 'selling to'!!  Just because it is 'business focused', it doesn't mean that you still can't have some fun - like occasionally tweeting about a sports event, or recent big news event.  After all, Twitter is about the people, right?  Many people who use Twitter for business, make the mistake of starting off with efforts to boost sales or launch some new product or service.  They do this without any engagement with anybody.  Take note here...Twitter is a communication channel with an OFF button - the unfollow link - and people aren't afraid to use it.  If people don't like what you are saying, or the tone you use - then your follower list will start to shrink…and quick!

So how do you tweet  and manage to maintain your business integrity?

Try to mix up your tweets.  Don't just focus on you - get interested (and get involved) in others and SHOW IT!  People are happy to look and listen to what you have to say, but only in moderation, and then, only if they trust you and have some sort of relationship with you.  So mix up the types of tweets you make, and engage with the community - business will come later.  Here are just a few suggestions for the types of tweets you can be using to get involved:

Informative:  What have you seen? What websites have you seen that are interesting? What have you read?  Which articles were in your daily news gathering process that got your attention? Get the message?  Tweet something that your followers will (hopefully) find interesting.

Re-Tweets:  Did you receive a tweet you want to share? It's easy to "retweet" it to your followers. Maybe some of your followers will do the same with some of your tweets!

Blog-Post Tweet:  Post your latest blog posts via Twitter, it is a great way to reach a larger audience with the same information and effort.

Help tweet:  Need some help or advice?  Want to know where to stay when you take a trip? Looking to make an important purchase, but need feedback on your options?  Just tweet about it.  People will give you their opinions quickly and honestly.

Humor Tweet:  Something makes you laugh? Share it with a tweet - we all like to see those tweets, especially if they make you LOL! (that's "laugh out loud" by the way!

Your business-related tweet: This is where you can tell what you do, how you do it, and promote your business.  But be careful how you pitch it!  If you just talk about you and your business, people get bored and will turn off, but show variety by mixing it up and you will be able to engage with a much wider audience. And if they like they way you do it, then people will naturally gravitate to your website, and they may well become customers or new clients in time.

Real Time Chat is a feature that is available to Web-JIVE customers, and requires closer management and upkeep than many of the other tools we use on a website.  With real time chat, a visitor to your site can start an electronic conversation with someone at your company who can provide answers and support for that persons needs.  Sometimes real time chat simply covers things like your hours of operation, address, and availability of a certain product.  But sometimes it will involve discussion on specific needs for a potential customer, like technical specs.  For an e-commerce website, real time chat is very beneficial.  When a customer is shopping in your store, and has a question about your product or supplier, they will want an answer to their question quickly - or they will move on.  The trick to a successful real time chat tool is to be able to provide what that visitor needs when they need it. 

Image galleries provide a great opportunity for you, the business owner, to showcase your work for site visitors.  They provide real examples of work you have produced and give potential clients concrete evidence of your capabilities and a glimpse of what you could potentially do for them.  As a Web-JIVE customer, you have various tools available to you that will allow you to showcase your work in a gallery. 

Just like the rest of your Web-JIVE site, the image gallery tools available will allow you to change the content, upload new photos, re-organize existing images, and delete items as often as you like.  And as always, this all happens real time. 

Company Directory is a tool that allows site users and visitors information for departments and/or individuals at your company.  Directory tools often allow the user to organize and update information from the site.  Many tools allow creation of dedicated lists of employees, members, teams or groups.  Some sites may wish to control the amount of information available through custom field selection.  Other sites allow access to directory information only to registered users.

Voting polls allow you to solicit feedback from site visitors regarding any number of subjects.  Web-JIVE sites contain a standard Voting Poll tool that can be set up and maintained with ease.   A Voting Poll can allow you to ask for feedback on a current news story, or a specific product or service you offer or could offer in the future. 

Electronic newsletters are utilized by many companies to communicate new and updated information to a large number of people with a simple email message.  When utilizing a newsletter, your website should include an easy way for visitors to register (sign-up) to receive the newsletter.   The actual newsletter email message you send should always include an "un-register" option for people who do not wish to receive the newsletter any longer.  As a Web-JIVE customer, we can help you add this functionality quick while providing tips and guidelines on how and when to use newsletters.

A calendar is a tool that, if used properly, can communicate a great amount of information to site visitors.  Calendars are effective when a company keeps them current and posts all items of interest to potential and current customers.  This could include upcoming seminars, trade shows, sales or specials at your company, meetings of interest, or maybe reminders of deadlines like forms and fees due.

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