Business networking is a must. There will be some really strong business building networking advice in this category and much of it will come from Martin Brossman.

For now, I want to discuss blogging for networking purposes. Blogging gives you an avenue online to express yourself while at the same time creating a brand and a following. With helpful free services like Wordpress, it’s so easy for anyone to start a blog. In addition, with the help of a tech guy like Fred Wood, you can get a real domain name set up for your blog and also get advice on using many of the free plugin tools to maximize your blogs bells and whistles.

Just like Business Networking, you have to be committed to it to make it work for you. Although many bloggers post daily, I would suggest that you not bother starting a blog if you cannot at least post weekly. That’s four times per month minimum that you write about a topic that you know and love.

The key way to make blogging work for you in the offline world is to tell everyone you meet about your blog and get the readership as high as possible which in turn can lead to more business for you and even put you in a position to get ad revenues from your blog. I’d suggest putting your blog on your business card if possible or even creating a separate business card for your blog by getting free business cards from Vista Print. However, people take you much more serious with a paid business card which you can get for less than $20 at your local office supply store.

Be sure to e-mail everyone in your address book about your new blog and put your blog in the signature of all your future out going e-mails. In other words, make your blog a part of your regular routine and watch the many long term benefits keep coming from something that is not all that difficult to do.

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