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Today’s business blog marketing has replaced traditional ways to get the word out about goods and services.  Blogging and social media are now the fourth most used online uses.  In fact, 64% of businesses use social media to advertise their products.  Of these, most use social marketing for five hours per week, and about one third use it for ten hours per week.

Additionally, blogs are cheaper than traditional forms of advertising.   Blogs can be piggybacked to an established website or they can be set up for a nominal cost.  Once up and running, a blog need only be updated with new content.

Companies are using blogs for image, new products, customer feedback and search engine placement.  They also build relationships with the public and generally promote the brand.

If you use the new social media and you blog, you are in good position for 21st century business.  Many business owners are hanging onto the older marketing forms such as television commercials, newspaper ads and radio advertisements.

But many people don’t buy newspapers anymore as the overall content is available on demand over the internet.  And television newscasts are diminishing.  Local community newspapers like the Penny saver are giving way to online classified advertisers like craigslist.

So the business owner who relies on these older forms of marketing is missing a huge opportunity.  People are looking at search engines for information.  Therefore, it behooves you to learn how important blogs are and to contribute to them.

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Blogs written for business involve updated articles with particular attention to the keywords that people type into the search engines.  If you can incorporate these keywords into your new information the search engines will grab your site and give you prominence on the search results, making business blog marketing well worth the effort.