Content Creation Keys Unlock Your Business Blog Success
Keys to Content Creation
If you’re a coaching client, follow my teaching, or are a JimZboran.com member, you know my strategy for using a business blog as a key component of my step-by-step system for turning your interests, talents, and skills into a meaningful, rewarding, and successful full or part-time business.
A blog works on many more levels than just marketing to help create and build highly-valued and eagerly sought-after entrepreneurial endeavor. And I teach how to harness the full range of benefit that comes from a business blog.
So the infographic to the right is very important.
That’s because the strength of the key component of a business blog is high-quality content. That content is a vitally important part of providing highly valuable information to the prospects you are trying to reach so they eagerly seek it out.
Whether you’re just getting going and starting a blog for your business, or you’re already up and running and would like to improve your content offering, this infographic is for you.
The Keys to Content Creation is normally available only to JimZboran.com members, but I’m going to pull back the veil so you can benefit from it as well.
It’s a handy primer for you to get started out with, or it’s a nice point of reference to evaluate what you’re already doing.
Just click on the infographic image to the right and a new tab with just the image will open. Click on the image in the new tab and you’ll be able to see it full size (which is actually readable).
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! The information is great, but it’s fantastic when you apply it expertly… so be sure to let me know if I can clarify any part of it. Also, please feel free to share your own favorite content creation keys or strategies.
Just post your questions or comments in the comment section below!
A Little Action on Your Part Might Rock Someone Else’s Whole World
Choose your goals and your actions wisely. While the choices you make, and the value you work to bring to others, may seem inconsequential to you, they may have great impact on someone else. So be careful. And by the same token, be passionate about your goals and the actions you take to achieve them. While the value you bring to the table might seem like a small thing to you, it may mean opening up a whole new world for someone else.
Choose Wisely: You May Be the Whole World to Someone
Shoot at the Right Target for Business Success
Einstein Says: Shoot for Value, Not Success
Aim for success… or something else?
There are many, many people seeking to start their own business with the end goal of creating success for themselves. But that’s not the best goal to create long-term success in business or in life.
When you shoot for creating great value for other people and then deliver that great value through your business you are setting yourself up for success by setting your customers or clients up for success.
By shooting for value you create a win-win, long-term, highly-sought-after business and also create the best environment to experience success. You’re actually experiencing success… as a by-product of providing great value.
Achieve success by shooting for value.
Look at your current or planned business. Ask yourself, “why did I choose to do this?” If the answer is “money” you should rethink what you’re doing, or why you’re doing it.
You may be surprised to find that you aren’t actually doing it for money, even if you think you are. Look for the underlying reason… it’s probably something that you are excited about because it adds value.
You may even have decided to provide your product or service because you yourself experience the value of what you are now offering.
Focus on that value. Emphasize it. Brainstorm about the ways it enhances your customers or clients lives. Make sure you are constantly focusing on pursuing and providing maximum value in that way to everyone you do business with.
You’ll find that people will be willing to make you successful… because what you are offering them in exchange for money is more valuable to them than the money they are paying you.
Everyone wins! You have success and, more importantly, your customer or client has added value to their life by purchasing what you offer.
What is the focus of your business? How are you striving to add value to your customers or clients? Share your thoughts, experiences, or tips in the comments below!
Free Malware and Blacklist Scanner for your Business Website or Blog
Business sites get hacked everyday. Often, malicious code is inserted to infect the computers of your site visitors. Some of your visitors end up with bad things on their computer. Others, with protection in place, receive a warning before entering your site that scares them away. Eventually, your site ends up getting blacklisted from search engines until you clear up the problem.
It’s a common occurrence and just a reality of doing business on the internet. Certainly no reason to not have a site as it’s a simple matter to take simple precautions from the beginning and then have some sort of backup and monitoring system in place.
It has happened to me before and the clean-up process was not fun. And then I had to go back and get relisted with Google. In addition, as these things usually go, it came when I seemed to have the least available time to deal with the situation. But it was that type of situation that demanded an immediate response before going any further. So I laid everything I was doing down and focused on fixing the problem. Thankfully I had some systems in place that made the process of repair and rebuilding simpler.
I cover this topic elsewhere, but here is a handy and free tool that you should check out. It could become a part of a system that will prove to be invaluable to you and your business (and your sanity) someday. Here’s a handy link to a free security and blacklisting scan to check your website. Read More…
Entrepreneurial Success in a Nutshell
It’s all here in this short interview!
Entrepreneurial legend and world’s foremost sales and leadership expert Harvey Mackay gives some excellent advice for entrepreneurs in this interview conducted by Chris Brogan.
This interview is loaded with key points of experienced entrepreneurial success!
This is where Harvey has arrived in his entrepreneurial outlook after decades of experience. Why not pick up your entrepreneurial journey from where he is now?
Stepping Up to the Entrepreneurial Process
It’s very telling that so many have the same aspirations of being in business for themselves. Entrepreneurship seems to be a very human endeavor.
As pointed out in a previous post, I constantly meet new people that share the same desire to be in business for themselves. They want to earn a great living while adding great value to other people’s lives by offering great products or services.
Sadly, few actually move being the dreaming stage. That’s a shame because they are holding back something of value to the world around them. In so doing, they are holding back the value they can bring to themselves and their families.
When you take something of value that you create or do and present it to others in order for them to add that value to their own lives you benefit yourself. That includes money, but the rewards go much further. I think it gets in touch with the nature of our humanity.
You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to be all you can be… and that includes bringing your unique talents and gifts to bear on the world for others.
You have been equipped to do that. Some would even say you have been commissioned to do that. But at very least, you have the human quality of desiring to create things that add value to your own life and that can add value to the lives of others. Read More…
What are your Entrepreneurial Drivers?
It seems I’ve “always” had a passion for entrepreneurship. At least since my pre-teen years anyway. It is a very basic part of me.
Over the years I’ve found many, many others with that very same aspiration. My passion is not so uncommon (though most stop at the dream, or aspiration, stage).
And it turns out many of us also share the same reasons driving their desire to become entrepreneurs.
Among the reasons I’ve found behind a passion for being a business owner: Read More…