How a blog can help your growing e-Commerce business
When you start an online business, your main aim is to sell the products, right? As a business owner, you want to showcase your store to more audience. So, you decide to go on social media, why? Because everyone is doing it, then why shouldn’t you? It is tempting as everyone is aware of the hype that it is the best way to market your brand.
Do you know having a blog for your online store can be very helpful? Many businesses do not understand the importance of having a blog because they don’t have time to post quality content.
Today, we will talk about how a blog can play an important role for the growth of your e-Commerce business. Later, we will also discuss some tips that will be helpful to you for writing business related blog posts.
1) Blog is useful in educating your customers
Blogging is one of the best way by which you can educate your customers about your products/services that you offer. This helps you as a business owner to bring more value to your brand. When you provide useful information to the customers about your products, they are more likely to buy products from you. You can use your blog for providing tutorials in regard to the use of your products.
For example: If you have an online store that offers computer parts. You can write tutorials about how to build a computer or how to make your computer’s performance better. While talking about these things, you can mention products in the tutorials and provide link to your products within the blog post from your website. Your potential customers might get different ideas of using your product and will likely to buy products from your online store.
2) Blog helps your business in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Blog posts create more internal links to your website which helps a lot in SEO. Blog is a great way to have quality content on your website related to your products/services which is indexed by all major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. The more original content you write in your blog post, the better ranking you will get in search engines. SEO is an on-going process and posting blog posts regularly keeps your site active all the time which is beneficial when it comes to search engine optimization.
For example: Let’s say you sell “Sony Television Model XYZ” and you regularly publish blog posts about your product. Now, whenever someone searches for “Sony Television Model XYZ”, Google will crawl on your website knowing that you have something to do with this particular product. Hence, your website will show up on the search result page whenever this item is being searched.
3) Blog helps in boosting your sales by convincing the potential customers to buy
If you own an online business, there are so many ways you can share different stories with your audience in regard your products/services that you offer. Talk about how you started your business, share stories that educate your audience about what’s new in your industry, share stories about how your product/service was beneficial to someone or share anything that you think your audience might find interesting (it does not have to be related to your product). This kind of blogging shows that you are an expert in your industry and interested in educating your audience. It sets you apart in the competitive market. This gives you an opportunity to showcase your expertise by educating the visitors and it can turn your audience into buyers.
Fun Fact: Did you know that 92% of companies who decided to blog acquired customers through their blog?
nopCommerce is great e-Commerce solution that also offers a variety of CMS features including blog. A store owner has full access for managing the blog posts and related comments.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher arrives to speak about the concept of breaking up 'too big to fail' banks to a breakout group at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, March 16, 2013.
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The Canucks came up small on Wednesday, failing to make ex-Rangers coach John Tortorella available to the media the day before facing his old team. The Rangers and Canucks both had scheduled off days on Wednesday after each played back-to-back nights on Monday and Tuesday, so they kept to a code of silence. But that should all change Thursday at 1:30 ET, when the Canucks morning skate will be followed by Tortorella's first appearance with the New York media since his firing in May. Follow @PLeonardNYDN for the latest on Torts Thursday afternoon.
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In 2007, a large ship travelling off the coast of California collided with a male blue whale, ending its life at the tender age of 12. It was one of three similar strikes that year. The animalâ??s 21 metre carcass washed up on the beach, and scientists from the local museum examined and dissected it with machetes and excavators. They collected several tissues and organs, including a 25-centimetre tube of earwax.
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"Obviously Karzai wanted him to go to Afghanistan, but we feel that if they are to play a positive role in the reconciliation process then they must do it according to what their own Shura (Council), their own leadership, wants them to do," Aziz said.
Sheik Ibrahim Rogo Omar and three associates were slain Thursday night by unidentified gunmen while driving home after Rogo preached at the Masjid Musa mosque. The attack closely resembled the killing of Rogo's associate, Muslim cleric Sheik Aboud Rogo Mohamed, who was shot by gunmen last year sparking days of riots.
Chief Executive Steve Chazen has talked openly since April about a potential deal for its Middle East and North Africa assets, which run across countries from Libya to Iraq to Yemen. Analysts also say its California operations could be spun out.
"He has the freedom to carry out the research that he judges to be appropriate, but his colleagues have the freedom as well, and indeed the responsibility, to assess his research in terms of norms of the profession," Kreiser said.
Zimmerman called police upon spotting Martin on the rainy night of February 26, 2012, in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, where Martin was a visitor and Zimmerman was the chief neighborhood watch volunteer.
But they have been hammered in opinion polls and pressuredby allies in the business community who worry the brinkmanshipis killing jobs and slowing the economy. Republicans worry thatthe standoff could imperil lawmakers in competitive districts,giving Democrats an increased chance of winning control of theHouse next year.
First, the global ban on chemical weapons needs to be enforced. The list of leaders who have ordered their use is short and telling â?? Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein and now Bashar al-Assad. These weapons, like nuclear and biological agents, are so dangerous to civilians as well as the military that their use has been banned since just after the World War I. Absent an effective United Nations, the only sheriff who can enforce this vital international law is the US, supported by a few close friends like France. If we donâ??t insist on a zero tolerance standard, the chemical weapons genie will likely be out of the bottle forever.
It is not the first time remarks by Ms Patterson have prompted outrage. In May this year the DUP moved to distance itself from the former UDR woman after she spoke at a loyalist rally where she accused the PSNI of political policing.
No wonder she is laughing, almost £38 million, and she is one of the wealthiest persons in the UK and we give these Parasites £38 Million and that is a year, So the lady with all the children that is being criticized and people posting abuse about her getting £60.000 per year is definitely being short changed, compared to these Parasites, How many parasites is the £38 Million for, so if this is for Liz and the Drake, then this single parent with all these children is definitely being short changed
The OBR also said the introduction of a single-tier state pension slightly reduced the burden on public sector debt, but added that spending on healthcare would be the biggest fiscal pressure over the next five decades.