How to blog and how to blog for business using social media to build brand awareness and to do get people to come and visit your site in a 'buying frame of mind'

1. How to find leads of the internet
Presented to the BNOW Network at :
The Foreign Correspondents Club
Bangkok Thailand
By Alan Johnston
Netmedia Thailand.

2. Remember search engines want a
NOT A:

3. Remember search engines want a
NOT A:
Library of information
Shopping mall

4. It’s going to be really hard work
Don’t expect overnight results
It’s about branding

5. What you need:
Your own domain
Your own hosting
Your own separate blog
Why separate?
Business
Friendly

6. It’s about 10% SEO
70% Altruistic content
20% sharing to social media
Remember Search engines are robots and
they don’t have bank accounts!
Write for people!

7. DO NOT OUTSOURCE BLOGS!!
The very essence of social media is
engagement and sharing what you
know, and developing rapport.
Could you confidently write a blog about
your soul-mate?

8. Do not sell
Write about what you know and how what
you know could help people.
At the bottom you always add a CTA
Call to action which brings people to your
selling site!
It’s a kind of magic!

9. How often to blog?
Once a week minimum and sharing to all social
media should get a medium strength keyword
top of Search engines in 1 month
Then share all your blogs to Social media.
It takes around 5 years to have 20,000
followers, likes and contacts on social
media, OR, find someone with a lot of social
media to share your blogs
Hmmm I wonder ?

10. www.biz-findthailand.com is a FREE article
marketing site. Add your Thailand business
and then submit an article we then blast that
to everyone of our FB groups, pages
, twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Rebel
mouse, then 5 million daily visitors on
Stumble upon, Digg, Redditt, etc.
Massive free exposure for you business
alan@netmediathailand.com