Many of my clients have asked me over time whether running a blog is worth the time and effort that goes into it. The answer, as always, is “it depends”. For me, my blog has made a major contribution to bringing leads and clients to my business. I estimate that about 20% of my clients have found me through my blog, got to know me and then decided to attend my classes or purchase my other products.

If you learn how to run a blog and how to use it to bring clients to your business, it will become a great tool to get clients for your business. You need to create a plan for bringing your target market to your blog and converting this traffic into clients.

Will you be required to invest a lot of time and energy into blogging? Actually, blogs do not have to take up that much time and energy. Your blog posts don’t have to be as long as your articles, as long as they are of interest to your target market. The effective blog post is not long; it is written on the topic of interest to your target market. The blog post helps them learn something and at the same time leaves them wanting more. You also don’t have to blog every day – blogging a few times a week is fine. Some people only blog once a week.

Here is how to create a plan that will turn your blog into an effective tool that will drive potential clients to your business 24/7:

• Define Your Goals For Your Blog. If this is a business blog, your goals could be to become more known to your target market, attract more newsletter subscribers, attract clients to your business, etc.
• Pick Good Blogging Software. Blogging starts with picking the blogging software that’s right for you. I strongly recommend evaluating a few different options before deciding on the one that is right for you.

  The one I recommend to use is available at wordpress.org. This software can be installed on your own web site, is easy to use and is highly customizable.

• Find Topics That Your Target Market Wants To Read About. Since your goals for your blog include using your blog as a tool to get clients and newsletter subscribers, your target market has to be interested in reading your blog posts. Do research through online social networks and search engines to find topics that your target market would like to read about.

  Always write blog posts that are of interest to your target market.

• Bring Traffic To Your Blog. Just writing posts on your blog isn’t going to do much to improve your visibility and get more clients. In order to get the benefits from blogging, you need to create a strategy to bring traffic to your blog.

  Some ideas for bringing traffic to your blog are search engine optimization, social networking sites, article marketing, commenting on other blogs and more.

• Convert Blog Traffic Into Clients. Just bringing traffic to your blog is not enough. You need to get people who come to your blog to take action with you! In addition to bringing traffic to your blog you need to have a procedure in place for turning your blog readers into clients.

Follow the above five steps to turn your blog into a tool for getting clients. Once you have a step-by-step strategy to bring your target market to your blog and turn it into clients, you will be able to get more clients for your business.

About the author: Biana Babinsky is the online business expert who teaches coaches, consultants and other service professionals how to get clients using their blogs. Get her Make Thousands Of Dollars With Your Blog Home Study Guide to learn how to start a blog and use it to get clients for your business.

How To Get Clients By Being Authentic

Are you looking for a way to bring target customers to your business while using your authentic voice? Many coaches and other service professionals have told me that they feel that the only way to get clients is to adopt the marketing methods of a used car salesman. They feel they have to change themselves and their approach and adopt hard-sell sales techniques to bring in clients.

Fortunately for all of us, this is not true. You can remain true to your authentic self and still have a thriving business with all the clients you can handle.

You can speak in your authentic voice and get clients – what can be better? One of the best ways to do this is to have your own blog and post new entries consistently. Here is how:

• Your blog posts can be written in a conversational style, rather than the more formal style that the rest of your web site is written in. When you are blogging, simply imagine that you are talking to your readers and let your authentic self shine through.When you talk to your blog readers they feel more connected to you and are more likely to become your clients as a result.
• Use your blog to tell stories. Your blog is the perfect place to tell stories that illustrate what you do. Such stories might not be appropriate for the rest of your web site, but they are perfect to share on your blog.
• For example, is there a popular story in the press right now that you can relate to your products and services? Did you hear an interesting anecdote that illustrates a point that you want to share with potential clients?

A great story helps you share with your potential clients and at the same time spotlight your business, products and services.

• Offer your blog readers a gift. What can be more helpful, authentic and professional than helping your potential customers with a problem they are experiencing? Your potential customers need help with problems they are trying to solve. Your blog is an excellent tool for you to help your potential customers do just that.Create a gift that your potential customers crave. This gift should solve a problem that your potential customers are experiencing and desperately need help with. Package your gift as a special report, e-book or audio recording so that you can create the gift once and give it out to thousands of people.

  Once you have the gift ready, offer it to your blog readers in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter. Doing this will help you build a list of potential customers that you can contact and market to on a regular basis.

As you can see, you can use your authenticity to get clients! Use the above advice today and start attracting more clients to your business.

Learn how to authentically use your blog to bring in more clients during the no charge How To Make Money and Get Clients With Your Blog Teleseminar here

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About Biana Babinsky, Your Online Business Expert

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Biana Babinsky is the online business expert, consultant and author, who helps business owners get more web site traffic and clients online. Biana teaches coaches, consultants, virtual assistants, professional organizers, financial experts and other business owners how to create passive income online, sell more products and
services and make more money.

Biana helps business owners dramatically increase their online sales, get more clients and make more money online.

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Does this sound like you?

- You Work Very Long Hours Every Day. Between working with your clients and marketing your business, you work at least 8-10 hours every day.

- You Fit Your Family Commitments Between Your Business Commitments. You often have a choice of either attending your child’s sporting event or working on your business. If you attend the event, you will spend time with your family, but you will not get clients. And if you work on your business, you will lose out on
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- You Are Terrified, Because Your Old Clients Are Leaving And You Are Not Able To Replace Them. Some of your long-tome clients are leaving and you haven’t been able to replace them.

Teleseminars are classes that you can teach over the phone. Once you teach teleseminars, you can repackage them into other products that you sell on your web site. Teleseminars are very convenient for you to teach and for your clients to attend, because all you need is a telephone!

The best part about teaching teleseminars and then repackaging them into other products is that they can earn you money while you are not working. Imagine checking your e-mail in the morning and seeing orders for products that came in overnight while you were sleeping. Imagine being on vacation and getting a phone message from your assistant telling you that you have just sold $800 worth of your products while you were at the beach. All of this is possible when you teach teleseminars!

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- Not Worry As Much About Clients Leaving. When you offer teleseminars and other products, you one-on-one clients will not represent as big of a part of your revenue
as before. Even when some of your one-on-one clients leave, you will be able to replace what they paid you with your product revenue.

- Create More Income Streams. Each one of your teleseminars creates a new income stream for you, earning you more money and helping you create the life that you want.

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This teleseminar is just what you need to get you on the right path to learn how to put on profitable teleseminars. If you are not using this income stream to help assist your business profits, then attend this teleseminar series to learn how to do it! You can also use these skills to put on free teleseminars to help provide sneak peaks to your products and services and get people enthused about what you have to offer.

There are many benefits to teleseminars including:

- Multiple Streams Of Income (each teleseminar is its own stream of income for your business!)

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- How to spend little time on Twitter, but still get results

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