You too could have a blog!
Anyone can have a blog. You just go to wordpress.com or blogger.com or any of the other free hosted blogging services and sign up for an account. Simple as that. Now you have an online journal, and you can write informative articles relevant to your business and attract interest from others in your industry. Or you can just keep customers and prospects informed of what your company is up to these days.
What’s the catch? To be honest, there aren’t any major drawbacks. By choosing any one of these free services you end up with is an excellent, feature rich, perfectly usable blog that will do just about everything you want it to. You might have to put up with a few adverts on there (these services have to make their money somehow) but the chances are they’ll be infrequent and unobtrusive.
What will it look like? Well, you’ll be able to choose from a multitude of ‘themes’ and if you choose wisely you’ll have a tasteful, professional looking blog template. But what if you already have a web site and want a blog that looks like part of your site? That’s a bit more difficult. The chances of finding a theme that looks like your site are remote, and there is also the possibility that you end up choosing a popular theme, so there will be other blogs that look identical to yours. You can modify themes, but you have to know what you’re doing.
However, there is an alternative. My site is simply a blog based on WordPress technology platform. It’s hosted on my server just like any other site and I’ve made it look exacly like I want it to look instead of relying on one of the free templates. Plus I’ve included other pages like you’d find on a normal site instead of restricting it to just the blog pages.
If you want one like this, ask me about designing a custom theme for your blog, or a template that looks almost exactly like your current site. I can do this for you at reasonable rates and you will find that getting a blog can really raise your profile and benefit your business.
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