Linda Martin, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, discusses how blogs can impact companies and provides tips to improve blog posts. Blogs are important as they can drive traffic, boost SEO, position the brand as an industry leader, and develop customer relationships. For her company, blog posts generated over 1,400 page views in a month and a half, with traffic from several countries, and led 17.3% of visitors to the company website. She recommends writing catchy titles, asking questions, encouraging comments, keeping posts 300-400 words, adding links, including numbers, and providing valuable content.
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1. How blogs are affecting
you company?
Linda Martin
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
March 24, <year>
@n_nedyalko
2. Presentation plan
1) What are blogs and blog posts?
2) Why are they important?
3) What is the outcome of your blog posts?
a) For the company
b) For yourself
4) How to improve your blog posts?
5) Summary
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4. 1. What are blogs and blog posts?
@n_nedyalko
1. The action that is performed by a person when
they make a post to a web log or a blog -
displayed in reverse chronological order
2. A website containing a writer's or group of
writers' own experiences, observations, opinions,
etc., and often having images and links to other
websites.
3. We have a corporate blog used externally for
marketing, branding and public relations.
5. 1. What are blogs and blog posts?
@n_nedyalko
1. The action that is performed by a person when
they make a post to a web log or a blog -
displayed in reverse chronological order
2. A website containing a writer's or group of
writers' own experiences, observations, opinions,
etc., and often having images and links to other
websites.
3. We have a corporate blog used externally for
marketing, branding and public relations.
6. 2. Why are they important?
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7. 2. Why are they important?
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Drive traffic to your website
Increase your website SEO
Position your brand as an industry leader
Develop better customer relationships
8. 2. Why are they important?
@n_nedyalko
Position yourself as an expert and trustworthy
go-to person in your field
Build trust
Increase level of Professionalism
Inbound marketing strategy that cuts down our
marketing costs
10. 3. What is the outcome in our
company from blog posts?
@n_nedyalko
For month and a half :
1429 page views with 294 users for our blog page
992 page views with 271 users for our website
Reach in Bulgaria, India, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom and Germany
17,3% conversion from blog posts to our website
Avarage our visitors are spending
4.01 mins for our blog page
2.58 mins for our website
11. 4.How to improve your blog posts?
1) Make good titles
@n_nedyalko
12. 4.How to improve your blog posts?
1) Make good titles
2) Ask questions with open answers
@n_nedyalko
13. 4.How to improve your blog posts?
1) Make good titles
2) Ask questions with open answers
3) Tell people to comment
@n_nedyalko
14. 4.How to improve your blog posts?
1) Make good titles
2) Ask questions with open answers
3) Tell people to comment
4) Around 300-400 words
5) Put more links to bigger websites
6) More numbers and comparisons
@n_nedyalko
15. 4.How to improve your blog posts?
1) Make good titles
2) Ask questions with open answers
3) Tell people to comment
4) Around 300-400 words
5) Put more links to bigger websites
6) More numbers and comparisons
7) Good content with added value for the reader !
@n_nedyalko
16. 5. Summary
@n_nedyalko
Corporate blogs add huge value for INBOUND marketing
Blogs make our company more transparent
Future LEADS see with whom will they work
The blog post solves a PROBLEM
Numbers
55% more website visitors with a blog
88% more leads per month with a blog (B2C)
67% more leads per month with a blog (B2B)
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