The Importance of Having a Personally Branded Blog!

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Hi folks,
I was just touching base with some friends and making new ones on Twitter and Facebook and one thing that really popped into my mind right away is just how important it is that you have a personally branded blog.

In forming these new contacts and relationships I am amazed at how many marketers are still trying to develop a following or recruit a team using their company provided replicated website as their main domain. I mean like, WOW. What are they thinking? How many thousands of sites look just like theirs?

How are they differentiating themselves from the crowd of wannabe’s? Do they really think that if given the opportunity to follow them or someone like Jonathan Budd, Katie Freiling, or James Holmes that their potential business partner is going to choose them?

I see so many people taking the time to develop the necessary relationships to grow business via social networking, pay per click, and other offline methods only to blow it totally by sending the prospect to a page that could be absolutely anyone else’s in the world.

It is incredibly important in this day and age that you as a professional are making sure that what you are bringing to the table is unique, actionable, and worthwhile content and advice so that the reader engages with you.

When they engage with you and realize that you in fact are the leader that they have been looking for this is when that relationship bond can begin to grow and hopefully bear mutually beneficial fruit.  This is what is going to set you apart and make you the attraction magnet that we both know you can become.

You may be saying to yourself  “Wow John, you make it sound so easy”. Well if it does sound that way it’s not. If it were everyone would be walking around making a $100,000 a month!

This brings me to one of the most important questions you have to ask yourself: Is the juice worth the squeeze? If your answer is yes then read on to find out how you can start your journey to Online Marketing success.

Because I sincerely want to help you in developing your own personal branding and social media strategy here are a couple of resources to get you started on developing that online presence that is so incredibly crucial in today’s environment:

Email Marketing:

Aweber

This is a fantastic resource for what I consider to be the best autoresponder in the industry. There is one true thing you can count on about internet marketing; If you don’t have a list, you don’t have a business.

Domain Registration & Website Hosting

Godaddy.com

This is the resource that I personally use for my domain purchases and website hosting. Their backoffice is very easy to use and their customer service is top-notch! For only a one time fee of $9.99 you can purchase your very own domain (website address) and another $4.99 per month you can host your very own blog.

This is very important since you don’t want to go through the work of creating that stream of traffic only to have your prospect see a google ad on your page and click off of it. There are other issues to consider with free hosting but that is for another post.

Free WordPress Themes

Here are several sites that have literally hundreds of free high quality WordPress themes that you can use to customize your blog as you see fit.

FreewpThemes.net

• Are 100% free for personal or commercial use, since they’re released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attributions 2.5 license. You don’t have to pay me (or anyone else) anything to use them, regardless of what you want to use them for.
• Tableless and fully standards compliant.
• Only use royalty-free, public domain stock photos from PDPhoto.org.
• Are completely ready to use with WordPress. Just drop them in and go

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

WordPress Theme Base

This site has an incredible  amount of high quality themes.

So now that I have shared my thoughts on this issue along with several resources on the subject I would definitely love to hear what you feel about it as well.

To Your Massive Success,