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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Overview of this book

WordPress makes the business of blogging easy. But there’s more to a successful business blog than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced marketing and promotion techniques to make your blog stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers shows you how to use WordPress to run your business blog. It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online, and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog.You begin by identifying your blog’s strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.You will learn how to build a custom theme for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like SEO and social media marketing are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Goals and planning


Let's now look at WPBizGuru in more detail and see what business objectives he wants to achieve with his blog. We can apply a simple process here that should work with any business blog:

  • Consider our business situation

  • Decide on our strategic goals

  • Come up with ideas based on those goals to give us a blog plan

  • Decide how to implement the blog plan

Business situation

The first step is to stand back and analyze your business situation. WPBizGuru earns his living by setting up WordPress blogs for his clients, writing, speaking at events and shows, appearing on web TV, and selling a range of WordPress products. He is an expert in the WordPress community and has amassed a great deal of knowledge through his experience as a consultant, writer, and speaker.

Thinking back to the blog categories that we outlined in Chapter 1, A...