The future of blogging for business 101 and what it means for you

| February 2009 Posted in Consulting, News |

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I do realize that it has been some time now sense our last post!! I know, I know, not even a quick update! Some have been concerned that we might have dropped off the map! But I assure you that is not the case, we are here to stay!

I do not even want to look and see the official date of out last blog post, mainly because I am ashamed that it has been so long. But I want to go back a bit to get things up to date. But first a little background on Blogging For Business 101 for those that might be new to our blog or just passing through.

Background on Blogging For Business 101

I started my company as a consulting firm in January of 2008, working with small businesses and start up ventures. I quickly saw a need for a targeted approach, internet marketing and building an internet presence. With the economy on the way down and companies cutting marketing cost and looking for new ways to expose their services and products, I turned to something that I loved and felt would be a great benefit, BLOGGING!

What ended up happening was, I got my first client in January of 2008, but he wanted me to design three websites for him…so I made a bit of an addition to the services I would offer. With that little addition came 3-4 months of uncertainty, where is the business going to go, I started to drift way from what my focus truly was, helping companies implement blogging into their marketing and branding plan to expand the business.

From May to August another 3 months I struggled to find much business at all. The company was still in this, ‘I am not sure what I am doing’ stage so I made a decision, my blogsite needed an overhaul. I spent about 2 months adding content about services and business practices to my blogsite, so that people could really understand what it is Blogging For Business 101 really does.

At about the end of September I started looking for new ways to promote my business and find new customers, I wasted over $500 with an ad campaign that resulted in not one lead! I then, some how was turned onto Craigslist! I started browsing Craigslist for jobs and gigs related to web design and blogging, especially wordpress blogs. And I started sending emails regarding job after job after job! I new that I was in a huge bidding war with 50 maybe even a hundred others, but I kept it up. Eventually I closed a couple of deals, made some money and kept at it.

Moving into 2009

Then I hit the jackpot twice with my Craigslist hunts, I found two other companies that were looking for a company or freelancer to outsource their blogging and website design work too! That has been the source of most of my current work, which I must say has been keeping me busy. I also have started to see a lot of people that I placed bids for on old Craigslist ads start to contact me 2 even 3 months later.

2009 has already proven to be a better year then 2008, but I can say that I got a lot of growing pains out of the way, and most of the start-up disasters taken care of early.

What is next for us in 2009

It is only February and most of my focus is on moving from a completed year 1.0 to year 2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0…etc. With more and more success each year! Thus far 2009 has proved to be more successful then 2008 by more than 200%.

I do not think that we are completely out of Beta, (end of 2008 closed beta 1.0) but we are going to launch a new version of Blogging For Business 101 Beta this year.

Beta 2.0, and I am not complete certain what all of the changes or additions will be just yet, but I think that we are still a young enough company and that it is absolutely necessary for the growth of the company to launch Beta 2.0.

My goal is to be completely out of beta by 2010. So that we can roll into year 3 with a completely functional version of our company, version 3.0.

Right now we are working on the schematics of this new release, I foresee the launch of Beta 2.0 taking place by the end of the first quarter, March. Then an updated release 2.1 by the end of the second quarter, June. Another and hopefully final updated release 2.2 by the end of the third quarter, September. Which will allow us to launch Blogging For Business 101 version 3.0 in January of 2010!

With the beta 2.1 version will also come some very unique things from us. The details of which can not be discusses at this time, but it will be a very unique service that will move companies to new places in 2010.

What you can expect from us as a reader in the 2.0 versions

More content, fresh & unique content
A fresh new approach to blogging
More how to articles
Podcast/Video Cast
A new look/design
Free local business blogging conference
New business network launch
and there is more…

For you the reader, I want to make sure that I am providing you with what you need! With new ideas new suggestions, better ways of blogging and so on. I don’t just want to be another blog you subscribe to that has the same content as everyone else. I want to be a resource, my vision was always about helping other people grow their business and be successful with their dreams.

Because I believe that a blog is only as successful as it makes its readers, I want to make a special offer. To anyone that subscribes to our blog while in beta 2.0 or 2.1 I will giver you free access to all of our future content that will be for members only, and I will give you sneak peaks and first dibs on special programs that we are currently developing.

I have given you a few of our plans, but I want to know what you would like to see, what is something that you have not been able to find that would help you improve your business blogging or even just your business goals?

Just leave your ideas in the comments, and I will be sure to follow up!

Summary

Keep an eye out for the new changes and the new additions, which I will always blog about, so you will want to subscribe to our feed to stay informed. And let me know what I can do to better serve you as a blogging for business reader!