Blogging for Business Success with Sugartone

Blogging is a great way to promote your business expertise and craft top level visibility online. But the path towards success is a long one and it's not always easy to stay on track.

Learn How To Make Your Blog A Success

Of course, one of the first things you can do is make sure you start off properly. You can learn a lot about the best business blogging practices simply by reading this blog and following my programs. But what else can you do?

Communities of Business Bloggers

As you get into the routine of blogging for your business, you'll probably also enjoy hanging out with other business bloggers. Here are 2 places you should look into: BizSugar is a social bookmarking platform for business articles. So if you are blogging about business, you can submit your articles here. But it's also a small and friendly community to network with other business bloggers who come here to read the articles. Bloggertone is a community of business bloggers. It's based in Ireland and after only a few short months Bloggertone has already developed a friendly social business networking community.

Sugartone: the Sweet Business Blogging Contest

As it happens, both BizSugar and Bloggertone are teaming up to run the Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest March 15^th- 19^th 2010. It should be easy for you to join in the Sugartone event because there are 2 different ways to participate:

• Write an original business article writer with a great title
• Vote and comment on the business articles submitted for the contest

And this means there are 2 sets of prizes for the:

• Top 10 Titles
• Top 10 Commenters

$6921 in Sugartone prizes for professionals marketing their business online.

• Lead Page Machine - a software to automatically generate squeeze pages so that you can use this to tailor your squeeze pages to specific audiences, to build your email subscribers and increase your sales conversions. Valued at: $5200
• Animoto - a year's membership to this easy tool which creates videos from photos. Valued at: $249
• Traction Call - a 45 minute call with the Traction Coach Gary Barnes to help you to quickly get some "sand under your wheels" so you can move forward toward the life you want to live. Valued at $175
• ClickMillionaires - 2 x 6-month membership to Scott Fox's social network helping business owners upgrade their marketing to make more money online. Valued at $174
• 5 Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success - this is my own CD and special report on how you can easily make your blog a winner. Valued at $97
• Start.Grow.Run - 8 x a software package with 45 essential tools and services for the 3 different phases of your business. Valued at $49.95 each

Plus there are 2 books for the winners of the Top 10 Titles and the Top 10 Commenters. And the books include:

• Wordtracker Masterclass: Blogging For Business - 50 Steps to Building Traffic and Sales by Chris Garrett. 5 books valued at $39 each
• Sociable by Shane Gibson & Stephan Jagger. 5 books valued at $25 each
• New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg. 5 books valued at $16.49 each
• Guest Posting by Chris Garrett. 5 ebooks valued at $10 each

Click through here to find out more about the contest and how you can win a copy of my CD and special report 5 Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success as well as the other prizes there.

Comments

[Niall Devitt]

Hi Denise, thanks a lot for the #SugarTone support! Really appreciate it. Warm Regards, Niall

[Julius]

Thanks for sharing about this contest. I like the points you raised at the start of your post: starting properly and finding a community of bloggers to help you and share information with. These ideas also apply to blogs that don't particularly focus on businesses.

[Blogging King]

I think this is all well and good, but it is very important for us to be honest with new bloggers about what it is going to take to be successful.

The number one thing that it is going to take to be successful is an insane amount of hard work.

There are no short cuts and you are not going to get rich quick.

But if you are willing to work harder than you ever have in your entire life you have a chance of making it.

[Bruce]

Denise,

Thank you for these valuable blog community resources! I'm always on the lookout for new connections for blogging and business blogging. I'm going to register for "bizsugar" right away!

Hope to see you at Blogworld this fall.