Business Blogging - How to Build A Better Blog

What's Your Social Media Success Story?

Do you have a social media success story?

I have an offer for you.

How would you like to tell your story and get more visibility for your business? I'm looking for social media and blogging success stories to feature on my blogs in the next couple of month.

If you have a success that was a direct result of increased visibility on the web, I'd like to know.

• Did you land a new client from your blog?
• Get a speaking gig from something you posted on Facebook?
• Sell out your teleseminar from tweets you posted on twitter?

Submit your story and it could be featured on one of my high-traffic blogs.

I'm doing this for several reasons both selfish and not so selfish:

1. I'd like to help you boost your visibility, and a guest post or feature story on a blog other than your own can help that.

2. Sharing success stories helps others see the possibilities for success in their own business. People like to read about people who are like them and face similar challenges. They don't want to only hear about me and what I'm doing.

3. Selfish - I'm going to be traveling a bit in the next few months and want to have inspiring content on my blogs for the times I'm not able to post.

Between blog subscribers, organic traffic, twitter and Facebook, I reach over 30,000 people. Would you like to get in front of these people?

Post your story in the form on this page: http://denisewakeman.com/story/

I've been rolling out this announcement to various groups of clients and mastermind partner. I've received some great stories and would love to feature your's too. I'll be posting them on Fridays beginning this week.

Before you fill out the form, you can prep with these questions:

1. In a nutshell, what success did you have as a result of your blog/social media?

2. What was the obstacle that you were facing in your business?

3. What did you find as a result of using a blog/social media?

4. What specific feature do you like mostblogging/social media?

5. What other benefits did you experience from blogging/social media?

6. Is there anything you?d like to add?

7. In 25 words or less, please provide a short bio and contact info to include with your story.

I can't wait to feature you on my blogs and share your story...blog on!

Why blog? William Reed Shares His Success Story

I am often asked if blogs really work to build a business. I say "yes." The next comment usually is, "your business is about blogging so of course it works for you." Well, to that I say, there are hundreds of success stories about how blogging has helped a business build more awareness, get more traffic to their web site, build a database of prospects, attract new clients, media coverage and myriad opportunities. Most of those businesses have NOTHING to do with blogging or online marketing.

William Reed, author of Entrepreneurs Creative Edge, shares some of the huge opportunities that have come his way as a result of being visible on the web with his active blog.

What do you think of that invitation to write a weekly column that gets in front of more than 80,000 people? Not bad, eh?

Now, William Reed and I have decided to partner on offering blogging programs for the English speaking population of Japan and possibly the rest of Asia! We're offering a free teleseminar on using a blog to build online visibility, to gage interest and then we'll decide where we go from there. Now tell me that blogging doesn't work to create business opportunities!

Want some more proof?
Blogging Success Stories Wanted! (read the comments)
GolfAsian Blog: 3 Years Old & Still Posting
Blogs Build Your Business: You Want More Proof?

The Undisturbed Life: Featured Blog Launch

 As The Blog Squad, we are privileged to work with many amazing clients who have so much to offer their own clients. We recently helped two professionals launch a blog full of meaning and insights. We are proud to announce...

The Undisturbed Life: Awaken to Your Birthright by Larry LaPrade and Dan Moren. Larry and Dan have many years experience working with people to help them discover their authentic personal essence. They offer workshops and coaching services. The best way to discover their own inspiring essence is to visit and read some of their most recent posts:

• Confucius and the Pushup
• It is just a pushup
• Information - Exabyte's and Lawn Mowing
• Motivation - Expressing Intrinsic Qualities
• Motivation to Express

Larry and Dan offer insights and inspiration for anyone who wants to experience a deeply satisfying life on many levels. Be sure to visit and subscribe to The Undistrubed Life, especially the post Our Unique Approach. Here's an excerpt:

The Undisturbed Life is a life of abundance. People living in this way enjoy rich, deeply purposeful lives. Their lives consistently move forward, growing and evolving. Attracting intimacy and abundance, they are powerfully effective individuals making full use of their unique gifts.

Moms Inspire Learning Blog Launches

The Blog Squad is proud to announce the launch of Moms Inspire Learning by Dawn Morris. This is a blog for parents who want their children to become lifelong learners.

This blog was created specifically for busy moms, with children of all ages, who would like to find books, web sites, and other products which will enable them to make the world a better place.

Dawn explains, "As a mother of two, who holds a Master of Arts in Childhood Education, in addition to a CPA license, I believe that mothers hold great power as consumers and as our children’s first teachers."

"Parents need to know that their informal roles as teachers are essential to the success of their  children. If parents want their children to become lifelong learners, then they need to guide them and  show them how much fun learning can truly be."

Michael Gionta Launches The Recruiter Campus Blog

The Blog Squad is proud to announce the launch of Michael Gionta's The Recruiter Campus blog, Tips and Tactics to Growing a Better Recruiting Firm.

Gionta shares successful tips, strategies, and tactics of what he experiences running his own recruiting firm, as well as those of the clients he coaches. His posts are full of common sense advice for running any small business.

“This blog will dispel the myths of how to run a successful recruiting firm," says Mike. "Many of these myths have been around since the 1960's. While recruiting firms have added PC's to their desktops and access to national job board databases, much of the infrastructure and duties of key personnel have remained the same for over 30 years!”

Gionta writes with humor in a relaxed style that makes for an interesting read even for those not in the recruiting industry. His business lessons are applicable across a broad spectrum of small business fields. A few recent blog posts include:

The Blog Erotic Gives Sex a Good Name

If you're looking for real information about sex, love, and intimacy on the Internet, instead of titillating text or web drivel, you'll like The Blog Erotic. The Blog Squad is proud to have helped Dr. Stephanie Buehler set up and launch her great sex blog.

So much of what is published on the Web in the domain of sex is either pornographic or so focused on sexual pathologies that it's distasteful. It's hard to find good information that any normal person can relate to.

Admit it, for most of us, sex is a major part of our lives, taking up a lot of mental if not physical energy. So why not have an intelligent blog that talks about the issues in a realistic and humorous way that's enjoyable?

Dr. Stephanie could be the next Joyce Brothers or Dr. Ruth! You heard it here first. I predict a major publisher will spot her blog, and offer her a book contract. A psychologist and sex therapist from Irvine, CA., she writes with ease and tells it like it is, or should be. Here are her most recent titles:

• Erotic Valentine's Day Ideas
• Spontaneous, Shmontaneous: Planned Sex and Romance Isn't All that Bad
• How to Have "Vacation Sex" at Home
• The Glamorous Life of a Sex Therapist (Not!)
• Hot Monogamy: The Sexy First Couple
• The Mysterious Secret to Having Better Sex

Sounds fun to read, no? What better month to launch The Blog Erotic, just in time for Valentine's Day. Gotta luvvit... Go on, get over there, you know you want to, go ahead and subscribe!

Entrepreneur's Creative Edge Blog Merges Japan & US Cultures

William Reed is an interesting American: he's been living in Japan since 1972. William has absorbed certain aspects of the Japanese culture and applied and merged them into a unique brand of consulting, speaking and writing for entrepreneurs.

Think calligraphy, think haiku, think American marketing and business savvy with a black belt in Aikido and you might come close to imagining the personality of William Reed.

The Blog Squad is proud to have assisted William in setting up his blog, The Entrepreneur's Creative Edge. It's an eclectic mix of American and Japanese perspectives that anyone would find interesting.

Admin Chronicles Blog Offers Career Success Tips

Administrative assistants! Here's a blog worth paying attention to: AdminChronicles.com is a blog dedicated to be "the administrative professional's guide to achieving career success."

The Blog Squad set up this author's blog. It's published anonymously because the author is a professional admin assistant herself, working full-time and doesn't want any office conflicts to occur. She uses a pseudonym, "JEM", to represent herself as an expert in helping others find answers to office problems and challenges.

Admin Chronicles is a one-stop resource for tips and tools for administrative professionals to prosper, succeed and achieve career success. The blog provides career advice, skill-building opportunities as well as job search strategies.

Admin Chronicles aspires to be the place for information, resources, tips and tools that many admin assistants need to prosper, succeed and advance, whether they're called an administrative assistant, executive assistant, office manager, right-hand woman or man, support staffer or employee.

"JEM" invites readers to visit the AdminChronicles blog and sign up for her free e-book, "Quick, Effective & Real World Tips For Achieving Career Success." There's a page called Just Ask JEM where questions are answered.