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Just a simple test; Which real estate agents would you more likely to trust when you want to buy a house, someone wearing singlet and shorts or someone in a suit? I believe most would have chosen the later.

According to studies, it takes only 0.1sec for us to make up our minds about people and businesses. Sales are often loss because a customer’s first impressions on the business are lousy.

We know first impressions are important, but many business owners often forget this point when they create their business blogs. They forget potential clients visiting their blogs behave in a very similar manner to how they would behave in real person contact.

If you believe that by focusing on just creating high quality products and services alone can make your business successful, then I must warn you, you are having narrow vision in your approach towards your business blog’s success. What people often do not tell you, the first key to a successful business blog is your BLOG DESIGN.

A business blog that is built using a standard template will give readers the impression of lazy, unprofessional, not trustworthy and boring. Even if you have the greatest products or services in your industry, your blog design will prevent your potential clients from giving you a chance. And without your clients, how are you suppose to make a successful sales?

You should use your business blog as one of your business assets to achieve your goals. Whether you are selling a products or services, blog design is something you must not neglect if you want to succeed.

It is time you should think about building a business blog with a good design to send the right message to your readers. This is the first key to success with your business blog.

Style Blog Designs is all about helping you create your first key to a succesful business blog.

Self-hosted Wordpress 2.6 RSS feed only show the summary of the post even when setting is set to “Full text” mode for my Feedburner Feed.
If your RSS feed from Feedburner only display the excepts of your posts even after you have set your wordpress settings to “Full text” mode, just follow these steps:

Step #1

Go to Wordpress “Settings” -> “Reading” ->

Select “Full text” and then save changes.

Step #2

Go to Feedburner -> your feed dashboard-> “Edit Feed Details” ->

Change the Original Feed to -> yourdomain.com/?feed=rss2

Now go back to check your Feed, it should be working now.

Summary

The likely reason for the problem that you face would have been because you have used the wrong feed source from your website. Feedburner requires “feed=rss2″ for full text and the default setting on your WP could have been “feed=rss”.

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Business blog is a good way to start your business profile on the internet. It is especially so if you are a smaller player in the market and struggle to get your business properly anchored against other larger competitors.

7 benefits of having a business blog:

Benefit #1 - Simple And Easy

A blog is so simple to maintain that even people with little technological background can handle it without problem. It is quick to set up and easy to maintain by the business owner.

Benefit #2 - Low Setup Cost

It does not cost a lot to get a blog and there are people who specialize in setting up a blog for business. The whole setup will only cost a few hundred dollars and please do not be surprise that one day your business blog will become the best marketing tools you have for your business. The total money you spend on setting up the business blog is definitely much lesser than the 1 month salary of your salesperson.

Benefit #3 - Efficient Way to Broadcast your Business News

One huge benefit of your business blog is the simple and efficient way you can inform your clients of any important announcements, new products or services, promotions and much more. With better communication and updates, it will lead to more direct sales for your business. As written in the last article, more and more people are reading and trusting the informations they read on blogs. If your blog is interesting and informative, they be coming back for more. After you capture the hearts if your reader, your business will more likely to get more referrals and leads for your business.

Benefit #4 - RSS Newsletter

Frequent updates on the information and news of your business is important in client relationships maintenance. The best tool of a business blog to keep your reader updated is your RSS Feed (Newsletter). When your readers subscribe to your blog, they will receive updates whenever you post something new onto your business blog. You just need to post on your blog, and your blog will automatically inform your readers on the new updates. It is that simple!

Benefit #5 - Your Business Look Friendly and Open

Your visitors are given the opportunities to post comments on all your postings and this will make your business look more open and friendly. In a normal off line business, many potential clients are often too shy to ask you a questions. Having a business blog for them to ask questions is the best way to makes your business looks more approachable and it also helps improve your credibility when you can take away their worries.

Benefit #6 - Trustworthy

Trustworthiness is important for any kind of businesses. If your business blog can provide readers quality information on your type of business, they are more likely to trust you and buy a product or service from you. By giving the latest insight on the latest news in your industry and providing your honest opinions on issues related to your business will make you look like an expert in your area of business.

Benefit #7 - Brand Exposure

As research shows, it takes around 7 direct contacts between you and your potential clients to make a sale. Therefore, the more a potential client reads or hears about you, the greater the chance of a sale from him. If you mention your business name in your blog postings regularly, the easier your potential clients will remember you and think of your company when they need your product or service.

Summary

Business blog is a valuable tool (other than you yourself) to add to your business asset. It is a good way to start and definitely a good way to market your business. In this post, we look the benefits of having a business blog, in the next posting, we will look at how a blog design is important to your business.

You will never win if you never begin. - Robert Schuller

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Contact us today for more details on building a business blog.

There are actually tons and tons of reasons why you need to start a blog, but what I like to cover is in the context of starting a business blog. Why do you need a business blog?

 When I ask a few successful business owners and professionals in my previous job how would they define a successful business, most of them have given me a simple, yet direct answer - Business that make money!. 

And in a simplified manner, I define success as such:

SUCCESS <- PROFIT <- SALES <- CLIENTS

A successful business must have profit which comes from the sales given by the clients. Therefore, a successful business must start from finding your potential clients.

It is important to know where you can find your potential clients and one of the many ways that I like to suggest is through a business blog because blogging is the new trend and blogging will be the future of online marketing. 

3 Reasons Why You Need a Business Blog:

Reason #1 - Blogs are gaining credibility and people are taking them more seriously as information sources.

Your potential clients are reading blogs to find out more information about the business you do. And since they have to read it from someone’s blog, why not let the someone be you?

Reason #2 - Blogs are read by more than half the internet users.

50% of Internet users are blog readers in 2007 from eMarketer (May 2008)
77% of active Internet users read blogs from Universal McCann (March 2008)

Currently, most clients will ask you, “Do you have an email?”.
A few years down the road they will be asking, “Do you have a blog?”.

Reason #3 - Blog readers are more educated and more affluent than the general population.

Are they your potential clients?

- 50% are above 35
- 44% are parents
- 70% have college degrees
- Four in ten have an annual household income of $75K+
- One in four have an annual household income of $100K+

Are they likely to use your products or services in their life time?
 

Summary

Business blogs are a good start for you to find your potential clients. Be the first mover among your competitors and start a blog to reach out to millions of readers all over the world!

How do I get started?

I offer blog design and development services, along with a lot of useful tips for you to start your business blog. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need help setting up your blog.

Here it is, it took me a while but I have finally started my blog.

This is a blog for me to express my opinions and tips on the styles of Blog Designs and how to design, market, and maintain your blog business. In addition, I will feature some cool design tutorials and inspiring styles for you guys.

There are still a lot of improvements to be made on the design and I will slowly update the site in the next few weeks.

By the way, If you need a web design or want a makeover for your existing website, I will gladly assist you.

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