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Business Blogging Workshop: Drive Leads With Your Blog
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Business Blogging Workshop: Drive Leads With Your Blog

Learn to create blog posts that resonate with your target audience and get leads with this business blogging workshop.
4.0 (23 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
438 students enrolled
Created by Tom Treanor
Last updated 4/2013
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Business Blogging Workshop: Drive Leads With Your Blog
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This course includes
  • 1 hour on-demand video
  • 5 articles
  • 2 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of Completion
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What you'll learn
  • Provide business owners, non-profits, sole proprietors or start-ups with an understanding of how their blog helps their business
  • Learn several other ways to get great content for your blog
  • Learn how to create compelling posts that will help grow your online presence
  • Learn the 6 Ways Blogs help grow the online presence and increase leads for your business
  • Understand why Blogging, Social Media and SEO work so well together
Requirements
  • Access to a blog or ability to set up a free one (e.g. at Wordpress.com)
  • Interest in writing a blog post
  • Not much, let's get started!
Description

This business blogging course provides you with:

  • Context - 6 ways business blogging can help a business, non-profit or sole proprietor
  • How to choose a blog topic that your audience will rave about
  • Specifics on how to structure your blog posts for maximum effectiveness
  • How to develop a title that makes your post highly readable (and share-able in social media)
  • Which components of a blog post are most critical
  • Over 25 places to find stunning (free) stock photography for your blog and social media

What you get in this business blogging course:

  • Video training on "6 Powerful Ways Your Blog Drive New Business"
  • Video training - my popular "Blog Writing Workshop"
  • Video training - "5 Easy Ways to Create Content for your Blog"
  • Blog writing workshop slide set (PDF)
  • Tips on Free Headline Ideas and Keyword Research Tools
  • Get your post reviewed by the instructor
  • Business blogging checklist (PDF)

**Note: Last updated March 6, 2015**

Who this course is for:
  • Business Owners
  • Coaches or Consultants
  • Public Speakers
  • Content Creators
  • Sole Proprieters
Course content
Expand all 14 lectures 01:16:30
+ – Context and Blog Strategy
1 lecture 06:25

Learn 6 Ways Blogs help your business generate more leads, visibility and sales, including:

- Why blogs are more important than the other pages on your website

- Why blogs are powerful for SEO

- Why blogs are essential for getting visibility in Social Media

6 Powerful Ways Your Blog Helps Your Businesss
Preview 06:25
+ – The Blog Writing Workshop
11 lectures 37:18

Understand what your customers care about so you can target your blog posts to the topics that more directly address their pain points. Learn how to think like your target customer. What they worry about and how to come up with blog topics.

To see the post I describe in this workshop, click here:

http://www.rightmixmarketing.com/right-mix-blog/small-business-blogging-myths/

Know What Customers Worry About
Preview 05:23
  • How to select the topic for your blog post
  • Pick a working headline (this can change later)
Pick Your Topic and Working Headline
04:50

Some tools to help you come up with blog topics, including a headline generator and 3 free keyword tools.

Blog Headline Generator & Keyword Tools
01:12
Blog post ideas resources
00:21

Headlines are key to attracting your target audience and maximizing shares. Submit your headline ideas for a new blog post for feedback!

Get Feedback on Your Headline!
00:49

Brainstorm the "list" that you'll use for your blog post. In this workshop our list is myths or mistakes that our potential clients make. But you can make any type of list for your post as you follow along.

Brainstorm Your List
07:48
Once we have our list - the meat of the post - then we can write our opening paragraph.
Write Your Post Opening
03:22
  • Don't limp into the finish line - finish with a strong close
  • Include one main call-to-action
  • If you want to see the post I describe, click below. Notice that the call to action has changed. Can you find it?
  • 6 Small Business Blogging Myths Debunked 
Closing, Call-To-Action and Post Picture
07:30
29 Awesome Free Stock Photo Resources
04:17
This wraps up the workshop. Don't forget to download the slides attached here as well. If you want to see examples of some of my best list posts, click the links below:

On Right Mix Marketing:

Wrap-Up
01:31

If you've gone through the lessons, post the link to one of the blog posts that you think is good and I'll provide feedback. Only one post per person is allowed.

Submit one blog post for feedback! (optional)
00:15
+ – Easy Ways To Create Content For Your Blog
2 lectures 32:47
In this lecture, I go through 5 ways that you can add content to your blog fairly easily. This way you can produce more content and keep up a regular blogging schedule. This is part 1.
5 Easy Ways to Add Content To Your Blog Part 1
14:23
Part 2 of the 5 Easy Ways lecture.
5 Easy Ways to Add Content To Your Blog Part 2
18:24
Blog Writing Workshop Quiz!
10 questions