Ok, it’s the end of the year and I’ve realized that I’m at the office looking at my blog, looking at others, and little to do around the office. Well, there’s a lot to do, but I’ve hit a business block. Little customers and lots of free time.
Many begin to ask, how do I get more traffic to my business? Good question. I don’t know. Let’s take a look at how do I get more traffic to my blog. Well I’ve heard of trackbacks and networking comments, and technorati and stuff like that. But to a beginning blogger, what do I do? I need a “for dummys” book, but I don’t wanna read, so I’ll go back to my business knowledge.
After sitting at my desk wondering how cool the little green light on my Apple adapter is for about 5 minutes, I realized there is little business ’cause neither my partner or I are telling new clients about our business. We want business, but are relying too much on clients to tell others about us. That has worked in the past because our quality, service, and competitive prices have shown clients we know what we’re doing. The problem is that word or mouth from clients is slow. It’s the strongest form of marketing but it’s a slow process. So I have to be out in the world telling people what we do. That’s tough, cause it’s cold outside.
But my tough lesson today: If I want something, I better go out and get it. Businesses and blogs alike, work with prospecting and word of mouth, but you better be out there doing the wod of mouthing. Don’t expect others to help you grow you business or blog for that matter.
