A Business Blog can be as Profitable as a Professional Website. This Trend Becomes More Newsworthy by the Day

Douglasville, GA (PRWEB) May 26, 2010

More and more people are taking a hard look at starting an online business using weblogs. Over the years blogs have played a low profile role in online sales and marketing campaigns, whereas today we have seen them become the face of many small online businesses and even some corporations. Web 2.0 (the diverse spectrum of instant online communication) has made it easier to become interactive in ways which we were unable to achieve in the past. There are so many mediums through which communication can be implemented, that everyday people can reach out to the online world and promote a product or service with tools they never knew existed. Blogging, RSS Feed, Atom feed, micro-blogging, multiple instant messaging and even programs with which you can telephone people internationally for free or almost no cost. These free tools can equip and empower everyday people with a necessary means of running a legitimate communications or products service.

As a result of such diversity people tend to take notice every time new applications come to light. The internet is in our PDA, our Blackberry, even our cell phones. The television and gaming consoles can readily access the internet as well. The world is constantly being driven by these changing venues and evolving Web 2.0 technologies. Also because this has happened so quickly, it’s just that much more compelling. Even third world countries seem to be obsessed with the world wide web. India could be flooding, facing a devastating drought or even a terrorist attack; yet business goes on and their social structure is changing more rapidly than any other culture in modern history. This kind of change happens because the world wide web makes communication and interactivity so easily accessible.

In spite of all these ways which the internet has impacted the entire planet, most people are completely unaware of how easy and cost effective it is to get started in online business. Most of them believe that you need an expensive web designer to build your website and maintain it for you. This is untrue. There are some excellent hosting services that will host your domain for less than $ 10 per month and the blog can be installed as a feature included in your hosting package and you build it yourself. This is one of the most popular venues out there today, using a system called Fantastico, which instantly installs a WordPress blog into a domain root, literally at the push of a button. However even people without computers can go to the library, sign on to Blogger and build their own blog absolutely free. These blogs are sub-domains in the blog service and can be used to promote products and services on the world wide web for absolutely free.

At this point all they do is pick an affiliate product from one of the millions to be found within various affiliate marketing companies. These companies allow vendors to sell products by using independent affiliates to promote them. The affiliate just places the product on a blog or website and makes straight commissions on any sales accrued through his or her affiliate link. Clickbank, Commission Junction or Google Affiliate Network are all free to join, reliable affiliate marketing programs, wherin a person can find literally millions of products and services to sell as an affiliate. Be it clothing, bridal wear, jewelry, electronics, pianos, mp3 downloads, internet marketing software, computers, cell phones, ipods, ipads; the list goes on forever! Anybody can start an online business for cheap or even nothing, using a fully functional weblog as a website to promote products and services. They can post daily content about their niche and target their market, using keyword identification and interactive blogging with other like domains and bloggers. This market is now so target rich that anyone can set a reasonable marketing goal and achieve it. Blogging puts all the communications and promotions tools at the fingertips of anyone who is willing to try.

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A Business Blog can be as Profitable as a Professional Website. This Trend Becomes More Newsworthy by the Day