Mom Entrepreneurs: Use a WordPress Blog to Help Sell Your Products
In recent months, two of my family members - both mothers and budding entrepenurs - are looking to start websites to sell their unique products. In both cases, I’ve encouraged them to use WordPress blogs to run their sites.
Here’s four reasons why mom entrepreneurs should take a look at using WordPress to run their websites:
1. They can easily sell your products using plugins like this. Get a PayPal account and integrate it into your blog.
2. They can get found and ranked in the search engines faster. Google and WordPress love each other. And with some of these essential tweaks you can help them start talking. Additionally, leverage the power of an actual blog on your site to create quality and regularly updated content, something Google looks for.
3. They can make it easy on themselves to update and maintain your site. A while back I gave my 8 reasons why I love WordPress … but simply put: A website powered by WordPress puts the power back in your hands to keep your website fresh.
4. And the bottomline is: They can do all this … affordably. Quality web hosting and a domain name can be purchased for less than $70 a year. And if you want a quote for your blog design, let us know! Also, check out this post on the radical price difference for traditional web design versus blog design.
7 Responses
January 1st, 2008 at 11:12 am
Wordpress is great! It is easy to use, which is a plus for women in business who are new to the internet.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I have to agree a WordPress Blog is a great tool for marketing and is a great way to kick-start and online business. Wordpress makes it very easy to set-up a blog and truly does get ranked quickly in the search engines.
A blog is a must and WordPress does it best!
To your success…
April 6th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I just started using wordpress for my blog. Took about 15 minutes to get everything up and running and I actually enjoyed spending the next hour or two tweaking everything to the way I wanted. I’m not tech savvy and thought it was very helpful.
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April 16th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Cory you are totally right about learning to use Wordpress. At this point I can’t even fathom building a site with Dreamweaver.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
While wordpress does make nice blogs, and I enjoy reading blogs, they have limited use, I believe. I’ve seen plenty of research and articles that claim that blogs in general, while good for marketing tools and up-to-the-minute-information, should not be used in place of a website. Some of the reasons: …pressure on the blogger to keep up with responses; information on a website can stay put for years - blog info tends to be short-term (news-style) info; web info is usually logically organized - with blog info you sometimes have to look through dozens of responses to find what you are looking for; if you stop blogging, your traffic goes away; (there are more reasons I could list).
April 21st, 2008 at 7:07 am
homeBiz, we’re talking about small businesses …. and what we mean by using WordPress is as a content management for a website.
See http://ithemes.com for what you can do with a WordPress.
re: pressure on blogger …. isn’t contact with customers a good thing?
re: information on a website for long-tern … as long as you don’t delete posts they are there forever too .. plus, WP ‘Pages’ are designed for static content.
re: logical organization … ref. ithemes.com themes
re: stop blogging your traffic goes away …. if you’ve done your work on SEO, it stays …. one of my biggest blogs still gets over 500 visitors a day from past content … and I haven’t blogged on it for over 3 months actively.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Great idea! WordPress is good, very convenient to use. I’m using wordpress for my blogs.
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