13 – Why You Need a Blog, and How to Create Blogposts
Welcome back to the Tradie Success podcast. Today I’m going to address a question I get asked all the time: why do I need a blog on my trade business website?
Listen in as I reveal the top three reasons every trade business should have a blog, and give you helpful, detailed information on what to write and how to write it. Don’t forget to download the Ultimate Editing Checklist to make the process even easier.
Enjoy – and get writing!
| 0:31 | A question I get asked all the time |
| 1:03 | Why you need a blog reason #1 – It helps drive traffic to your website |
| 1:10 | What is a blog? |
| 2:00 | How people find your site |
| 3:05 | How to send more traffic to your website |
| 4:34 | How blog content can help improve your social media |
| 5:17 | Why you need a blog reason #2 – It helps establish your authority |
| 7:00 | Example |
| 8:07 | Why you need a blog reason #3 – It’s good for SEO |
| 9:47 | How Google ‘indexes’ your websites |
| 11:38 | Example |
| 15:24 | What do I put in blog posts? |
| 15:35 | Three blog post suggestions |
| 18:54 | How to structure a blog post in 9 steps |
| 27:42 | Get us to write your blog posts for you |
| 28:22 | Learn how to do it yourself |
| 29:07 | Inspirational marketing quote |
Well I hope by now you’ve realised just how important it is to add regular blogposts to your website.
So go on – have a go. You have so much knowledge in your head – get it out there. Share it and show people that you really are an expert in your trade.
Here’s a great quote to get you inspired:
If you have comments or questions, feel free to post a comment. Talk soon!
TWEETABLES
When you have written the headline, you have spent 80 cents of your dollar. Click To Tweet
Want more traffic? You need blogging, social media, and search engines. #tradiesuccess http://bit.ly/tradiesuccess Click To Tweet
If you create content that’s helpful, it’ll help establish you as an authority. #tradiesuccess http://bit.ly/tradiesuccess Click To Tweet
Your website is your online sales person, answering questions, providing useful information and building rapport. #tradiesuccess http://bit.ly/tradiesuccess Click To Tweet
RESOURCES
Speed up the writing process and improve the quality of your blogposts with our Ultimate Editing Checklist.
NEED MARKETING HELP?
We do understand that writing and marketing is not everyone’s favourite thing to do. If you’d rather take the wheelie bins out for the whole neighbourhood than write a blogpost – but you can see how beneficial it would be for your business, then why not get us to do it for you. Our team provides blogpost and social media updating services for a whole range of businesses. We like doing it and it gets results. Give us a call on 1300 554 495 or shoot us an email via the contact page on tradiesuccess.com.au and we’ll give you all the details and show you examples of what we’re doing for others.
WANT TO LEARN MARKETING?
But if you do want to learn a bit more of the nitty gritty detail of how to create great posts and all sorts of other practical marketing how tos – head over to tradiemarketingsecrets.com. For just $20 per month you’ll get access to all our fabulous lessons, tools and quizzes to help you become a gun marketer – plus we’ll add you in to our members only Facebook group where you can meet other tradies and get answers to your burning marketing questions. I’m in there every day.
SHARE WITH MORE TRADIES
Please share this episode with any other tradies or business owners you think would find it useful – share on Facebook or Google Plus or LinkedIn, share one of the tweetables in the show notes or even send a link by email! And make sure you never miss out on an episode, subscribe by clicking on the itunes or stitcher links.
Notify Me of New Episodes
