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A blog is absolutely indispensable for most business owners: it will help you draw unprecedented traffic, establish yourself as an expert and as a trusted friend to your customers, allow you to create more value, gain more customers, gain and share testimonials, and earn more money.

Having a blog allows you to have ongoing conversations with customers, where any other customers and prospects can personally witness how you deal with concerns, answer questions, and provide value.

You can also create polls and surveys to quantify your effectiveness and get real-time feedback on what your customers like and want to see improved. This type of interaction also tends to create a sense of community amongst users, and community translates into loyalty, and loyalty means increased sales.

A blog gives you more transparency, honesty, and accountability, and your customers will respond to that. It also happens to be one of the best ways to drive up your ranking in Search Engine Optimization, which means increased traffic to your site.

In short, a blog for a small business owner means more traffic, more customers, more feedback from the market, increased value to customers, and ultimately more revenues.

"These are all good things," I can hear you say, "but I'm not a good writer!"

This is one of the best parts of the whole deal: you don't even need to be a great writer to have a world-class blog and draw tons of traffic! You can have your blog ghostwritten professionally.

"What if I'm not a business owner," you say. "Why should I have a blog?

Even if you don't have a business, with a blog you can stay connected with family and friends, publish your passions and values to the world, network, create community, educate, share, create, discuss, and most of all, have tons of fun!

Best of all, with blog templates, your blog can also be a fully functional website, complete with a product store, static pages, forms, pictures, links, and more.

Most importantly, however, you should know that maintaining a blog can actually be an excellent business for you, as many professional bloggers literally generate $4,000 per month or more from their blog alone. Who knows, this might end up being a full-time job that you love and that makes you an excellent living!

Isn't it time for you to start your blog?

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Many smart Internet marketers have used blogs to increase their profits. Blogging has become a popular option for publishing online. However, it is also a great weapon for generating quick cash and traffic.

Here the 5 basic simple steps to pulling in insane profits from your blog:

Step 1 - Decide On Your Niche

Step 2 - Churn Out Content

Step 3 - Add AdSense To Your Blog

Step 4 - Tag And Ping Your Blog

Step 5 - Advertise Your Blog

With these simple and easy-to-do steps, anyone can create profits from blogs. Here is a more detailed look at the steps:

Step 1 - Decide On Your Niche

Find a niche that you can easily write about. It can be anything from training dogs to losing weight. If you want to enter a niche that you are not an expert in, you can always grab articles from article directories.

Step 2 - Churn Out Content

Add in a few posts just after your blog is 'live' so that the search engines have some content to pick up on. You can reuse articles you have written, or as mentioned in Step 1, go grab some articles from article directories. The idea is to get content out there as fast as possible.

Step 3 - Add AdSense To Your Blog

This is how you make your money. AdSense allows you to earn cash every time a visitor clicks on an ad. Go and set up your AdSense account at AdSense.com to see how you can set it up. Alternatively, if you are using Blogger, you can easily set it up within your account.

Step 4 - Tag And Ping Your Blog

By pinging your blog, you will be letting various blog directories and search engines all around the web know that your blog has just been updated. This is a highly effective way of getting visitors to your blog. The ping service I use is Pingomatic.

Step 5 - Advertise Your Blog

Market your blog using various marketing techniques such as forum posting, social bookmarking, social networking and article marketing to get traffic.

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